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I loved public finance because we were really sitting across the table from the people with the projects that were keeping the lights on in city hall. How cities are built and funded and constructed is fascinating to see. My entire career has some strain of public finance, and my love of tech only came much, much later.
Lourdes Germán is Director of International & Institute-Wide Initiatives at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy where she directs the Institute's cross disciplinary . Lourdes German launched the Civic Innovation Project after spending over a for City Leaders, First Edition (United Nations Press: )(co-authored volume).
Everything she has done has been entirely self-taught, which is precisely the reason why she is so interested in helping others learn how to do the same things themselves. If I can learn to do it, you can. Without a tech degree or a background in coding, just familiarity with Excel, German has created clear, concise, interactive maps and dashboards using open data from reliable sources typically governments, which have a high reliability for data with integrity.
I wanted to raise awareness of the fact that there are some ideas and tools working within certain communities that often just stayed in those communities," German explains.
And how to avoid the pitfalls? There are a lot of places where you could read a short post that someone wrote but nothing that set out a roadmap of 'here is a resource tool,' 'here is how to talk to that leader. She launched the platform focused on data transparency and showcasing citizen innovation, government-led innovation, and innovation from the academic sector to facilitate city-to-city learning.
Who else benefits from this other than the people in that room? There should be avenues to change how government works. If a citizen is really frustrated with how the community treats data, this puts the citizen on an equal playing field in having a hand in shaping the government. It inspires civic participation and engagement.
Also, citizens can come up with policy solutions that can really evolve the dialogue. Civic leaders and would-be technologists can learn at their own pace on Civic Innovation Project, clicking through a course, downloading the free tools and additional learning sources, and deciding their own method of learning in this self-paced virtual classroom.
That alone, German says, is empowering.