To decipher government finance for citizens, localities are turning to a new budget app that’s proving digital transparency doesn’t have to mean high costs. The solution, popping up in Massachusetts, ...

Lexington has a new tool for its citizens to know where exactly their tax money is going. The online budget visualization tool lets you see where every dollar paid in goes in government expense and ...

Albemarle County and Smart Cville, a local nonprofit focused on open data, have announced the launch of an online budget visualization tool. The website, created by Smart Cville, illustrates where the ...

When Stephen Goldsmith was deputy mayor of New York City in 2010 and 2011, the city was working on processes to make data available to the public. “We have now gone from fulfilling that transparency ...