Open City
Edmonton is aspiring to fulfill its role as a preeminent global city: innovative, inclusive and engaged. Building such a city takes foresight, planning and active participation by its citizens. A great city is an open city.
Foundational Elements
Foundational elements align the organization’s practices to support openness, transparency and consistency.
Open Channels
Integrate service delivery models, enabling the City to respond to Edmontonians’ needs in more effective and efficient ways.
Open Data
Building on the City of Edmonton’s open data program, the City will make more data available.
Open Engagement
Through innovative and inclusive public engagement approaches, the City creates opportunities for people to interact with the City.
Open Information
Information promotes participation and collaboration, building knowledge and capacity in the community.
Citizen Dashboard
The Citizen Dashboard is an interactive data portal that features performance details and trends for public data sets.
Collaborative
The City actively engages Edmontonians, non-profit organizations, businesses, and the community to design and deliver programs and services in an integrated and effective manner.
Inclusive
Edmontonians and City employees have access to information, programs and services, and the democratic processes that shape municipal decisions. This means reducing socioeconomic, physical and technical barriers, creating accessible channels for delivery of programs and services.
Innovative
With the participation of Edmontonians and employees, the City envisions, creates and fosters new approaches, and efficient and sustainable practices.
Participatory
The City believes that a democracy values and respects public input and engages people in decision making. Public engagement enhances the City’s effectiveness and improves the quality of its decisions by leveraging the collective knowledge of the community.
Transparent
The City is a steward of the information we manage and the services we provide on behalf of Edmontonians. Being transparent with Edmontonians and internally promotes trust and accountability. The City’s information is a public asset; consistent with privacy and protection legislation, it is disclosed in forms that Edmontonians can readily find and easily use.
For More Information
Wendy Gnenz
| Title | Director, Corporate and Departmental Initiatives |
|---|---|
| Telephone |
In Edmonton: 311 Outside Edmonton: 780-442-5311 |
| Website | (http://ace.edmonton.ca) |
| https://twitter.com/OpenDataEdm |
