City of Philadelphia CIO Adel Ebeid part of 7-city ‘Super Friends’ for open data

Philadelphia Chief Innovation Officer Adel Ebeid has joined a group of seven municipal government CIOs from across the country working together to enhance open data initiatives across major U.S. cities.

The group, which refers to itself as the G7, plans to build a website that will make it easier for cities to share standardized data and the applications made based on that data as well as organize multi-city hackathons, as Governing reported last week.

The website is still in its conceptual design stage, Ebeid told Technically Philly, so it’s unclear when to expect a launch.

This latest effort by Ebeid continues to broaden the city’s open data efforts, which includes a recent Executive Order signed by Mayor Michael Nutter and its partnership with Code for America that has brought fellows to the city two years in a row.

Considering that OpenDataPhilly platform is open source and used in multiple cities and that an array of groups already organize efforts across regional borders, the hope may be that Ebeid and his group members are following closely enough to what is already happening on the ground in local technology communities the country over.