Code for America, the State of Black Asheville and City of Asheville will collaborate in a Community Fellowship Program partnership designed to bring relevant criminal justice data to City residents, especially vulnerable populations. Asheville City Council approved funding for the partnership at its Aug. 28 meeting at a cost of $10,000, plus expenses [...]
Amazon Web Services recently recognized the City of Asheville as winner of its mid-sized cities Dream Big Award for its equity work, particularly related to using open data as a tool to help identify opportunities to contract with minority business owners. The award was part of Amazon Web Services’ 2018 City on a Cloud Winners announced [...]
In a continuing effort to increase transparency and provide the community with access to data, the Asheville Police Department has worked in partnership with several community members to release traffic stop data from 2006 to present, online through the City of Asheville Open Data Portal Three data sets have been made available and will be [...]
From trash collection days to crime, from properties to neighborhoods, Asheville residents have been able to look up local data by address on SimpliCity since it launched in 2015. Now, with SimpliCity 2.0, residents can access even more information, including integrated topic dashboards like the City budget and capital and bond projects, with many more to [...]
What do you want to know, Asheville? From neighborhood information to the City budget, mine data on an updated version of the City’s searchable tool, SimpliCity. First launched in 2015, this award-winning online tool provides useful information on city development, tax values, even trash and recycling pickup schedules. What’s new with SimpliCity 2.0? Now it [...]