Five city departments and agencies that could use a Web overhaul
In an informal partnership with Philadelphia magazine‘s new Philly Post daily news blog, Technically Philly will be offering our insight on Philadelphia technology to a broader audience of tech-interested individuals every Tuesday. As is true of so much of our effort, this is yet another opportunity to voice the triumphs and concerns of the community to a broader audience in the city and beyond.
Read this post on Philly Mag’s Philly Post.
The use of technology to transform government has been growing municipal concern in city halls across the country.
Here, the City of Philadelphia has announced its intentions to release a service orientated 311 iPhone application, is applying for ultra highspeed broadband from Google and is in hot pursuit of a funded team of developers and technologists to make our every government transparency dream come true.
The overtures are there, even if the substance hasn’t yet hit the pavement.
As such, a question or three remains as to where the priorities of the newly centralized city division of technology should be. The Web has no limits — of space or time. So we’d think every department’s site should be an open and transparent list of expenditures and salaries, but there are specific goals each agency could reach — and those we wish they could.
Below, we share our hopes for Web openness and effectiveness at five agencies or departments Philadelphians often loathe.
