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MassDOT: 10 Steps to Glory

Step 1: Hold regular meetings

Step 2: Create relationship principles

MassDOT Developers Relationship Principles1) Respect resources

2) Succeed together3) Expect change

4) Communication is key5) Open, open, open

Legalese: - Building applications does not increase the likelihood you will be

awarded a contract by MassDOT now or in the future. - The MassDOT will make all efforts to keep data

open once it's been released.

Step 3: Become part of the community

Step 4: Release some data

Step 5: Assess results

Step 6: Host a developer day/contest

Step 7: Reward innovation

Step 8: Ask community what data they want

Step 9: Release live data

Step 10: Become the example

From a government CTO:We have open data, people just don't use it.

You have to campaign to get people to use it.

Police don’t add to gang database

Solution = Crowdsourcing?

Sophie08 wrote:I would have been happy to help out with the data entry.

Police should be doing what they are trained and hired to do.

polyhedron wrote:Let's be creative: There are other sources of data entry volunteers who can themselves be 'vetted' for security purposes:

All those ministers who have community meetings and say "something must be done"; AARP members looking to 'do good' in the community;

Retired court or criminal justice personnel.Divide up the work--let the police on the front lines do their part, let reliable others handle the computer database entries.

Once data are entered, it will be far easier to maintain it.

AllForADeuce wrote:Alcala3 is dead on. It's called an internship, it's required by Northeastern to graduate and it can be,

oh what do they call it...FREE!

homerhuskey wrote:This is NOT a resource issue. Anyone familiar with policing know that regardless of what police officers or police chiefs say,

there is CULTURAL RESISTANCE AGAINST SHARING INFORMATION.