Citizen Dan: Community Indicators for Local Communities

Citizen Dan is a free, open source system available to any community and its citizenry to measure and track indicators of local well being (see further details). It is under development with support from a number of innovative cities. It is the first exemplar instance of Structured Dynamics' open semantic framework (OSF), a generalized framework for deploying semantic platforms for specific domains. 

Citizen Dan is an open source framework for community leaders, activists, concerned citizens and professional and amateur journalists to leverage relevant local data. It is a:

• Appliance for filtering and analyzing data specific to local community indicators
• Means to visualize local data over time or by neighborhood
• Meeting place for the public to upload and share local data and information
• Web data portal that can be individually tailored by any local community
• Node in a global network of communities across which to compare indicators of community well-being.

To learn more, please check out details of the initiative. And, please contact us if you'd like to learn more about the project, investigate funding or sponsorship opportunities, or contribute to development. Thanks!