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OPENDATASOFT FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Become a more innovative and efficient city or municipality through data
Data to drive better decision making, increase transparency, improve communications and develop local communities, at a municipal and regional level.
Data portals: A driver for transformation in Local Government
Your need
Local government bodies need to become smarter and more data-centric to meet the changing needs of their communities, increase efficiency, accelerate innovation, and demonstrate transparency while driving greater sustainability. Effectively sharing data internally and externally through internal and external data portals with citizens and partners delivers openness, efficiency, accountability, and greater collaboration, while underpinning the creation of smart communities that attract and retain residents and businesses for the long term.
The benefits of data portals
Build effective smart cities
underpinned by data collected from across the municipality, enabling innovation, improving quality of life, better managing risk, and supporting sustainability goals
Improve internal efficiency
by collecting and sharing data across departments, replacing previously manual processes to save time while enabling faster, more informed collaborative decision-making
Deliver new services
to better meet the changing needs of businesses and citizens, using data to foster economic development and build stronger, more attractive communities
Increase transparency and trust
by sharing performance data, enabling deeper scrutiny of council actions and ensuring that elected officials are fully accountable to their constituents
Save time and decrease costs
by reducing time to insight for employees and partners while lowering expenses through seamless, rapid data sharing
Meet regulatory needs
to share data and deliver on Freedom of Information requests through efficient, proactive data portals that engage all stakeholders while delivering compliance
Realize all your use cases with a data portal
Internal Data Portal
Remove departmental silos and increase information sharing and collaboration by centralizing data from across your organization and making it available to all staff through your intuitive data portal, helping create an open, data-centric culture.
- Provide access to your organization’s data, creating personalized dashboards for each service to improve the management of every department
- Develop visualizations and dashboards to monitor activities, keeping elected officials up-to-date with project progress towards objectives
- Automate the management of service or information requests by creating dashboards to track queries and their processing by agents
Ecosystem Data Portal
Drive greater collaboration with businesses, startups, researchers and government bodies, sharing information in tailored formats via your ecosystem data portal. Ensure your data drives innovation and new opportunities for sustainable local economic development.
- Share your smart city data with partners such as transport operators or energy players to better manage traffic, mobility services and infrastructure
- Develop shared data portals to share visitor data with tourism stakeholders to understand and increase tourist numbers and spend
- Connect partners with common objectives or geography to enable secure data sharing and better collaboration
Open Data Portal
Increase trust and demonstrate performance to citizens, businesses and your wider community through an intuitive, easy to use open data portal. Share data in understandable formats to show transparency.
- Create visualizations on specific topics that save time for citizens by providing them with up-to-date information on key services and issues, avoiding the need for them to make contact
- Meet legal obligations to open and share your public data and contribute to greater public sector transparency
- Launch innovative data-driven services and power your citizen applications with real-time data
City of Long Beach engages citizens
The City of Long Beach in California is boosting transparency, building trust and reinforcing its digital leadership through its comprehensive data portal, which increases engagement by focusing on data storytelling through dashboards and visualizations.
Our solution
- Shares data from across the city through compelling visualizations such as dashboards and maps, demonstrating openness and accountability
- Automates data processes to increase efficiency, save time and maximize resources
- Delivers comprehensive data access internal and external audiences, all from a single, all-in-one platform
The benefits
- Increases engagement with citizens, delivering greater transparency and building trust
- Delivers greater efficiency and cost savings through automation and internal information sharing
- Provides a single source of truth, internally and externally, increasing collaboration and accountability
While we are proud of our open data efforts so far, we are on a continuous journey. We want to use the portal to broaden trust with our community, so we’re working closely with our departments to bring the community and their city closer together by sharing relevant data in interesting, inviting ways.
Digital Services Bureau Manager, City of Long Beach
The Key Capabilities of a Data Portal
Opendatasoft’s data portal solution enables data leaders within local administrations and local government bodies to quickly create a one-stop shop for the rapid discovery and use of their data assets at scale, internally and externally.
Seamlessly connect to all your internal and external data sources
through over 80 connectors for easy integration with your data tools and business applications.
Ensure data quality
control through more than 50 processors that automate common tasks such as formatting fields, correcting errors and standardizing formats.
Enable data preparation and enrichment
through Opendatasoft’s Data hub, providing free access to over 30,000 public datasets, available to combine with your own datasets.
Create compelling data visualizations and interactive dashboards
in just a few clicks through our no-code studio or via our advanced mode for more complex visualizations.
Securely share data assets
through a range of download and reuse options including APIs, allowing users to easily create their own uses from your data.
Better understand how your data is being used
internally and externally, across your ecosystems through in-built data lineage capabilities, while improving data portal management efficiency.
Learn more
10 steps to become a smart city using open data
How can you create a cost-effective, data-driven smart city? Download our new ebook and learn how harnessing open data can help municipalities create smarter communities: what is a smart city, how does it benefit municipalities and what holds back success? how can you cost-effectively build a smart city? best practice recommendations from industry experts: discover the 10 steps to becoming a smart city using open data examples of use case successes from our customers: Morrisville, Cary, Kingston, Jersey City, Southern Grampians, Western Parkland and Bristol.
Leicester City Council creates a data-centric organization through internal and external data sharing
Leicester City Council is a unitary authority with an estimated population of nearly 370,000 residents. The council is responsible for services across the city from education, libraries, and social care to transport, planning, and waste management as well as many more. To best serve the residents and businesses of Leicester, the council is focused on better use of data to gain greater insights across its 21 departments and engage people through open data. By using the Opendatasoft platform, Leicester City Council has created a strong foundation to underpin data sharing internally and externally. Learn more in this Success Story.
How data portals help cities and municipalities manage risk and drive transparency
In today’s digital-first world, data sharing and use is essential to effective local government operations. Based on our recent webinar, Opendatasoft customers the City of Kingston and the Town of Cary explain how data portals are helping them to deliver on the needs of their citizens and employees.
10 steps to become a smart city using open data
How can you create a cost-effective, data-driven smart city? Download our new ebook and learn how harnessing open data can help municipalities create smarter communities: what is a smart city, how does it benefit municipalities and what holds back success? how can you cost-effectively build a smart city? best practice recommendations from industry experts: discover the 10 steps to becoming a smart city using open data examples of use case successes from our customers: Morrisville, Cary, Kingston, Jersey City, Southern Grampians, Western Parkland and Bristol.
Leicester City Council creates a data-centric organization through internal and external data sharing
Leicester City Council is a unitary authority with an estimated population of nearly 370,000 residents. The council is responsible for services across the city from education, libraries, and social care to transport, planning, and waste management as well as many more. To best serve the residents and businesses of Leicester, the council is focused on better use of data to gain greater insights across its 21 departments and engage people through open data. By using the Opendatasoft platform, Leicester City Council has created a strong foundation to underpin data sharing internally and externally. Learn more in this Success Story.
How data portals help cities and municipalities manage risk and drive transparency
In today’s digital-first world, data sharing and use is essential to effective local government operations. Based on our recent webinar, Opendatasoft customers the City of Kingston and the Town of Cary explain how data portals are helping them to deliver on the needs of their citizens and employees.