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TRANSPARENCY AND OPEN GOVERNMENT EFFORT

I propose we refer to him from now on as, "Data Czar Kleykamp". do I have a
second?

 

Thad

 

 

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Thad J. Dymkowski, GISP

G.I.S. Technician

Town of Newington, Connecticut

(860) 665-8592

 

"I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it." ~
Steven Wright 

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I agree.we are lucky to have Tyler at the helm!

 

Rich Gallacher, GISP

GIS Coordinator

Town of Manchester, CT

(860) 647-3062

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Subject: ***SPAM*** [CTGIS-L] GOV. MALLOY ORDERS UNPRECEDENTED AMOUNT OF
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For those of you who have previously worked with Tyler Kleykamp on the CT
GIS Council, please note his latest assignment below.  The GIS community
should be proud to have one of its own serve in this capacity! -- Dan

 

Daniel D. Morley

Assistant Division Director

CT Office of Policy and Management

Intergovernmental Policy Division

450 Capitol Avenue, MS#54ORG

Hartford, CT  06106-1379

Phone: (860) 418-6343

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GOV. MALLOY ORDERS UNPRECEDENTED AMOUNT OF STATE DATA TO BE MADE AVAILABLE
TO THE PUBLIC IN MAJOR TRANSPARENCY AND OPEN GOVERNMENT EFFORT

 

(HARTFORD, CT) - Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced he has signed an
executive order that will result in widespread amounts of raw government
data to be collected, placed on the internet, and shared with the public in
a major effort to increase transparency and provide a useful database that
can be utilized by residents for any number of purposes.  The Governor
explained that the purpose of the order is to display data in its rawest
form, before it has been aggregated and analyzed.

 

"Sharing data collected by state government will help to break down silos
within government, make data more easily available for analysis by
researchers and entrepreneurs, and in turn help spur economic growth and
creative new policy," said Governor Malloy.  "This data belongs to the
people of Connecticut, and this initiative will help make that data more
easily and conveniently accessible to them."

 

Governor Malloy's Executive Order No. 39
<http://www.governor.ct.gov/malloy/lib/malloy/EO_39_Open_Data.pdf>  creates
the Connecticut Open Data Portal, which will serve as an online portal where
data collected across all state government agencies will be shared with the
public.  Once launched, it will be located at http://data.ct.gov.

 

The executive order instructs all executive branch agency heads appointed by
the Governor to begin the process of collecting the data, which includes
lists, tables, charts, graphs or other non-narrative forms and that is
generally statistical or factual.

 

Analysts, academics, entrepreneurs and all members of the public will have
the opportunity to use the posted data.  The online portal will also give
users the opportunity to visualize data through graphs or charts and on maps
when applicable.

 

"We are thrilled with the Governor's initiative that will be an asset for
economic development and policy analysis alike," said Robert Santy, Chair of
the Connecticut Data Collaborative, a nonprofit public-private effort to
improve quality and access to policy-related data in the state.  "The
collaborative looks forward to a robust partnership with the state that will
support greater public access to state data and raise data standards and
quality."

 

To create the Connecticut Open Data Portal, the State of Connecticut has
signed a contract with Socrata, Inc.  The portal will be managed and
administered by Tyler Kleykamp of the Office of Policy and Management (OPM),
who will serve as the portal's Chief Data Officer (CDO).  Kleykamp
previously served as the coordinator of state geospatial information systems
(GIS) at OPM.

 

"OPM is excited not only to lead this important initiative, but also to move
Connecticut forward into the age of data-driven governing," said OPM
Secretary Ben Barnes.  "This new portal will provide us with opportunities
for a more collaborative, interactive, and transparent approach to measure
the performance of government services and programs."

 

The Governor stressed that this executive order instructs agency heads to
make public data openly available while continuing to safeguard information
that must be kept secure.  The order does not apply to any protected data
that, if disclosed, would violate state or federal law, would endanger the
public health, safety or welfare, hinder the operation of government or
impose and undue financial, operational or administrative burden on a state
agency.

 

The Chief Data Officer will be responsible for working with an Agency Data
Officer (ADO) designated by the commissioner at each state agency covered by
the order.  It establishes a 90-day window in which ADOs will work within
their agencies to identify data suitable for the portal and share that list
of data with the CDO.  The CDO will work with the ADOs to identify data and
upload it to the portal.  The CDO will be advised by an advisory panel
created by this executive order and appointed by the Governor.

 

Socrata is working with the state to have the portal up and running on an
aggressive timeline within the next few months.

 

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For Immediate Release: February 20, 2014

Contact: David Bednarz

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860-524-7315 (office)

860-770-9792 (cell)

 

www.ct.gov/governor

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