Articles by

David Smith

  • Communities

    Civic Data Challenge winners make data useful to field of civic health

    Today live from its Annual Conference, the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) is celebrating the winners of the Civic Data Challenge. David B. Smith, NCoC’s executive director, blogs about the challenge and its winners. We have used civic health data for years to understand civic life in communities across the country, and to take an […]

    Article · September 14, 2012 by

  • Communities

    Making civic health data useful to help improve communities

    David B. Smith, executive director of the National Conference on Citizenship, writes about the launch of its Civic Data Challenge today in San Francisco, which is supported by Knight Foundation.  Today, the National Conference on Citizenship is excited to launch the Civic Data Challenge. The challenge turns the raw data of “civic health” into beautiful, useful applications and […]

    Article · April 3, 2012 by