Instant neighborhood information is increasingly demanded by visitors, residents, and travelers in the changing local community. Visitors want to discover top-rated restaurants and attractions; residents need to learn about local programs and services and receive safety alerts; travelers expect to save time by accessing real-time data about public transit and roads. All of that information…
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We’ve got a new topic up on our resident engagement portal, engageMontgomery. What kinds of financial data would you like to see posted on dataMontgomery, and how would you like to see it posted? Click here to provide your ideas. You can also check out the current list of open data sets by visiting https://data.montgomerycountymd.gov/.
On regular basis I’m asked about the availability of shared kitchen space in Montgomery County. Sometimes it’s a non-profit working on food security and access issues. Sometimes it’s an individual trying to make a hard to find ethnic food product. Sometimes it’s a food truck owner. My answer is typically the same: depending on your…
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The Sunlight Foundation is an organization that Montgomery County looks to for occasional guidance when forming open data policy. Although the County forms its own policy and is not bound by any guidance from the Sunlight Foundation, they are always an insightful group and thought leaders on the topic. So the Innovation Program thought we’d…
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My name is Briana Liu. I live in Rockville and am a junior at Princeton. This summer, I’m working as an Innovation Fellow at the Office of the County Executive. My role is to write a plan for a local sustainable food system in Montgomery County. In MoCo, there’s plenty of entrepreneurs who want to…
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On July 8th, the Wheaton Innovation Lab launched. It has two components: an Autism Technology and Innovation Pilot and a Food Truck Catalyst Pilot. The latter is discussed below. The county to assist a work-study group geared toward creating a food truck friendly environment has recruited Wheaton High School students. The students, along with the…
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In today’s world there exists as much as a thousand zettabytes of data. How can we make sense of this data and put it in a useful form? Can any of it be classified as information? Information by definition is data that has been processed. And information, in turn, results in intelligence. This is exactly…
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Thank you for visiting the new website for the Montgomery County Innovation Program. The site is brand new and we’d like to hear what you think of it. The Program is very grateful to our own Innovation Fellow, Ann Bevans, for all her hard work on the site. The website will provide you continual updates…
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