Pence's information hub will put data to new uses
Sep 29, 2014 The Elkhart Truth

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence’s rollout of a new, $9 million government management system earlier this month focused a fair amount on its bells and whistles. But underlying the new system, which the governor promised will make government more efficient and transparent, is a plan to better use troves of government data and predict how tax dollars should be allocated.

The Management and Performance Hub system is drawing praise from someone who knows all about government innovation: former Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith, now a professor of government management at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Goldsmith has been stoking talk of Indiana’s system among governing insiders and with his recently released book, “The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance.”

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