Maryland’s StateStat platform, the tool used to track about 80 percent of the state’s budget and promoted by Governor Martin O’Malley, who implemented it after being elected to his first term in 2006, could be improved.
That’s what Charlie Hayward, a man with more than 30 years of experience with IT auditing of government programs and activities, thinks.
While the StateStat site is flush with information, Hayward says some aspects of the site, like the “Reports” tab, need a facelift:
StateStat’s Reports tab leads users to numerous meeting minutes, reporting templates, and graphs. This information is uncategorized; users who want to evaluate reports for a particular goal are out of luck …
So information is available through the website, but it’s not organized neatly, and therefore can be difficult to find, a shortcoming of open gov initiatives Technically Baltimore discussed on WYPR this month.
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