This presentation will focus upon Tucson's efforts to open transit data and make it useful for our citizens. These efforts have required the formation of a new local non-profit organization, OpenTucson, and a partnership with the Mayor's Office and Sun Tran, the City of Tucson's transit system. Our on-going story is a case study on how a city insider can also be an outsider, how civic partnerships can make a difference when local government can't do it alone and how volunteer developers can come together to improve a community's quality of life.

Andrew Greenhill is the Mayor’s Chief of Staff for the City of Tucson. He has worked extensively on wide-ranging issues facing Tucson and Southern Arizona such as water, transportation, environmental sustainability, urban planning, economic development and local government reform. Andrew’s strong interest in Government 2.0–the intersection of technology and government–has led to the development of a number of technology initiatives both inside and outside city government. He serves on the Board of Directors for Code for America, a national non-profit loosely modeled after Teach for America, where civic-minded web developers will work closely with local governments to develop applications and other technological solutions for communities. And he is a co-founder of OpenTucson, a non-profit startup formed to develop and promote web and mobile technologies that generally improve the quality of life in the Tucson community.