Spend enough time with Beth Niblock, and you will understand two things clearly. One, she is earnest in her belief that transparency is the lifeblood of a healthy government. The other, she loves big challenges.
As the Chief Information Officer for the City of Detroit, she was able launch GO DATA, the city’s first effort to make non-personal, public information broadly accessible to the public during her first year as CIO. She launched similar efforts as CIO for Louisville Metro, where she spent 11 years.
Niblock was tapped by the Obama Administration to serve as part of a team of technology officials to support the City of Detroit. That team of five was tasked with making recommendations that could support the city as it emerged from bankruptcy and beyond.
It was her first introduction to Detroit; and the opportunity to come back, knowing the challenges ahead of her, was too enticing to walk away from. As the CIO for the City of Detroit, she is managing significant upgrades to infrastructure, putting systems in place to make city business transparent, launching an app for citizens to report issues with city services called Improve Detroit, and making Detroit online an easy place to do business with.
Can We Hack Our Way to the Cities We Need?
The digital economy and tech are transforming America’s cities as much as its companies. There are apps and hacks for every problem. But the resulting civic benefits are incomplete. Can we create enough jobs? Is access getting fairer? Health care improving? Transit? What more can companies, cities and citizens do to inclusively reinvent themselves for this interconnected, technologized […]
Detroit CIO Beth Niblock Interviews Jack Dorsey
At our Sept. 16 Techonomy Detroit conference, Beth Niblock, Detroit's first CIO, interviewed Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square about how tech tools can help small merchants thrive in communities like Detroit.
Conferences
Detroit 15
The impact of tech on the American economy, its cities and the transformation of the urban ecosystem shaped the agenda for our fourth annual one-day Techonomy Detroit conference.
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Detroit 14
On September 16th, Techonomy returns to Detroit for our third annual Techonomy Detroit conference. We will continue the series of conversations we began at our first Techonomy Detroit in 2012 on how technology can boost U.S. economic growth, job creation and urban revival.
