I'm genuinely confused as to why more US cities aren't choosing to use open source software for public data portals? CKAN (https://ckan.org/government ) seems so easy to deploy and maintain, but it looks like only the @CityOfBoston is using it: https://data.boston.gov/dataset

#GovTech #publicinteresttech

CKAN for Government

CKAN is used by national and regional government organisations throughout the European Union, the Americas, Asia and Oceania to power a variety of official and community data portals.

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@Hersh @CityOfBoston

Does CKAN have a sales team promising decision makers that it’s an “enterprise solution” that integrates with the CKAN ecosystem and gives them a “single pane of glass” around their data?

@ThatPrilla I once had a government cio tell me "open source is not 'enterprise'" and I couldn't help but think how that line is a constant theme of b2g marketing

@Hersh

The real mark of "enterprise" is that it requires that you use internet explorer.