Why open data leaders shouldn’t befriend politicians: Mark Headd

"It makes it more difficult to have the hard conversations when they’re needed," Headd wrote in a blog post about what he's learned in the year-and-a-half since he started running the city's open data program.

By:

Juliana Reyes, @juliana_f_reyes

Feb 13, 2014 11:30am

Mark Headd and Michelle Lee at the 2013 Interop Conference. Photo from Interop's Flickr, shot on Oct. 3, 2013.

If you’re running a city open data program, don’t get close with elected or appointed officials, said Philadelphia’s Chief Data Officer Mark Headd.

“It makes it more difficult to have the hard conversations when they’re needed,” Headd wrote in a blog post about what he’s learned in the year-and-a-half since he started running the city’s open data program.

Read the whole post here.

Companies: City of Philadelphia

Engagement