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The **Open Austin Policy Team** works with local governments and public agencies, in support of open government and civic technologies.

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## Candidate Questionnaires
Since 2011, in every City of Austin election, Open Austin submitted a policy questionnaire to all the candidates. We ask for their response on a variety of open government and important civic tech issues. We do not endorse candidates, but we do encourage voters to be informed on candidate positions.

*   [2014 Austin City Council Candidate Questionnaire]({{site.baseurl}}/candidate-questionnaires/2014-austin-city-council.html)
*   [2012 Austin City Council Candidate Questionnaire]({{site.baseurl}}/candidate-questionnaires/2012-austin-city-council.html)
*   [2011 Austin City Council Candidate Questionnaire]({{site.baseurl}}/candidate-questionnaires/2011-austin-city-council.html)

## Documents and Activity

Here's some of the activity that's occurred during our advocacy for open government.


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### 2016 Advocacy Agenda

Open Austin members brainstormed a list of priorities for using data to improve public services, mostly at the city level.

*  [Open Austin Advocacy Agenda 2016]({{site.baseurl}}/advocacy/documents/OpenAustinAdvocacyAgenda2016.pdf)

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### Open Data Initiative 2.0 - Apr 8, 2015

The city launched its open data initiative with the creation of its new website and open data portal. To increase department participation and open data availability, city management relaunched the effort with the _Open Data Initiative 2.0_.

*   [20150408_Open_Data_Initiative_2_0]({{site.baseurl}}/advocacy/documents/20150408_Open_Data_Initiative_2_0.pdf) - Memo from City Manager to department heads announcing the Open Data Initiative 2.0
*   [20150408_Open_Data_Particpation_Plan]({{site.baseurl}}/advocacy/documents/20150408_Open_Data_Particpation_Plan.pdf) - 90 plan to implement the Open Data Initiative 2.0
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layout: page
title: Advocacy
date: 2013-01-08 22:41:31.000000000 -06:00
type: page
published: true
status: publish
categories: []
tags: []
header: true
---

The **Open Austin Policy Team** works with local governments and public agencies, in support of open government and civic technologies.

* TOC
{:toc}

---

## Candidate Questionnaires
Since 2011, in every City of Austin election, Open Austin submitted a policy questionnaire to all the candidates. We ask for their response on a variety of open government and important civic tech issues. We do not endorse candidates, but we do encourage voters to be informed on candidate positions.

*   [2014 Austin City Council Candidate Questionnaire]({{site.baseurl}}/candidate-questionnaires/2014-austin-city-council.html)
*   [2012 Austin City Council Candidate Questionnaire]({{site.baseurl}}/candidate-questionnaires/2012-austin-city-council.html)
*   [2011 Austin City Council Candidate Questionnaire]({{site.baseurl}}/candidate-questionnaires/2011-austin-city-council.html)

## Documents and Activity

Here's some of the activity that's occurred during our advocacy for open government.


{:.no_toc}

### 2016 Advocacy Agenda

Open Austin members brainstormed a list of priorities for using data to improve public services, mostly at the city level.

*  [Open Austin Advocacy Agenda 2016]({{site.baseurl}}/advocacy/documents/OpenAustinAdvocacyAgenda2016.pdf)

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### Open Data Initiative 2.0 - Apr 8, 2015

The city launched its open data initiative with the creation of its new website and open data portal. To increase department participation and open data availability, city management relaunched the effort with the _Open Data Initiative 2.0_.

*   [Open Data Initiative 2.0]({{site.baseurl}}/advocacy/documents/20150408_Open_Data_Initiative_2_0.pdf) - Memo from City Manager to department heads announcing the Open Data Initiative 2.0
*   [Open Data Particpation Plan]({{site.baseurl}}/advocacy/documents/20150408_Open_Data_Particpation_Plan.pdf) - 90 plan to implement the Open Data Initiative 2.0

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