City of San José is committed to an open, honest, and effective government and strives to consistently meet the community’s expectations for excellent services in a positive and timely manner, and in full view of the public. With the advancement in information technologies and the increasing ability to share data more easily across multiple platforms and online, appropriate leveraging of these tools to make information accessible and usable by the public can help improve public service delivery and fuel entrepreneurship and innovation. The Open Data Portal serves as means to implement the City’s Open Data Policy and Open Data Community Architecture which is intended to help the City better utilize its data.

Open Data is an important component of this commitment; through making its data publicly available and easily accessible, the City will empower the community to engage with government on a new level and stimulate new ideas, new services, and new economic opportunities. In addition, Open Data will provide a new platform to increase the sharing of information among City departments, improving the City’s ability to deliver services to the community efficiently and effectively. To help achieve these outcomes.

To get started please go to the OpenGov Open Data Training page.