Morrisville Town Councilman Steve Rao To Lead Smarter Cities And Open Data Discussion On May 28
Morrisville Open Data Discussion On May 28 by Ian Henshaw Press Release Published on 5/23/2013 Councilman Rao To Discuss Support Of Initiatives And Their Goals At Town Hall MORRISVILLE, N.C. – Steve Rao, ( http://steverao.com/ ), an at-large member of the Morrisville Town Council, has announced that he will lead a discussion on the Smarter Cities and Open Data Initiatives on Tuesday, May 28 from 6:30 to 10 p.m. at the Morrisville Town Hall, located at 100 Town Hall Drive. Rao intends for Morrisville to join a growing list of Wake County cities, most notably Cary and Raleigh, in supporting the White House’s Open Data Initiatives project. Open Data Initiatives work to accelerate and expand efforts to make government information resources more publicly accessible in “computer-readable” form and spurring the use of those data by entrepreneurs as fuel for the creation of new products, services and jobs. Innovative tools including the Weather Channel and GPS systems have all resulted from