摘要：In the normal course of business and operation throughout the nation, government agencies collect vast amounts of data about residents and businesses. For many years the City of Oakland and other cities have struggled with providing their residents — on whose behalf a city provides its services and programs — with easy access to information and data about city activities. The recent advent of extraordinary technological advances has made it possible to provide easy access to city information and data. It has also presented an unprecedented opportunity to improve services and provide this information in formats that enable city residents and businesses to create or obtain programs that can manipulate and readily interpret and evaluate data made available or disclosed upon request.
