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LaVita Tuff: Adding Value to Voices

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This informative talk explains the idea of open municipal data portals and what they are doing to modernize governance in the cities that have embraced them. LaVita Tuff is a Policy Analyst with the Sunlight Foundation, where she works with their local policy teams to improve online access to government information. Her work focuses on analyzing and writing about government data disclosure in addition to providing feedback on adoption and implementation of open data, open meetings and open government policies at the state and municipal levels.