The dashboard visualizations haven’t led to actual changes in policy or reallocation of resources-yet. In one of those rare life occurrences, Japan was as awesome as I had pictured it in my mind all of these years. This dashboard seemed like a potential green shoot of democracy-a city doing what it can to show citizens why government should be trusted and that their quality of life, including the quality of the air they breathe, the prices of the apples they eat, and the traffic jams they face daily, is important. He wants to show citizens that their local government is doing all it can to understand and improve their quality of life. He’s worried that Seoul’s driving, vital prosperity is not being widely shared enough. When I met with Park last year, he told me that he needed to find “new occupations, not just new jobs” for the people of Seoul. The government is committed to opening up its data. 9” It was opened for the mayor to view in May 2017, and much of this information will be also made available to citizens by the end of the year.
