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GREEN BAY, WI - Mayor Eric Genrich announced Thursday a significant milestone for the City of Green Bay: the launch of a comprehensive citywide data strategy – ‘Connect Green Bay’. Connect Green Bay is a product of the City’s work as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance (CDA), an international consortium of 65 cities. This strategy is designed to enhance city operations, improving the delivery of government services and deepening communication between city hall and Green Bay residents.

“We’re pleased to unveil a data roadmap for the City and our residents,” said Mayor Genrich. “This plan sets the City on a journey for our community that is better connected to the City’s strategic goals and whose progress is more clearly defined by data-informed successes.”

Green Bay's participation in the Bloomberg Philanthropies CDA over the last 6 months has equipped the city with tools and insights necessary to leverage data effectively. Cities with advanced data practices are known to significantly increase resident satisfaction and well-being by improving service delivery, enhancing transparency, and enabling evidence-based decision making.

With the new strategy, residents can look forward to more certainty and accountability with regard to the performance of city services. The strategy lays out a plan, including new public dashboards and regularly detailed reports, that will provide residents with insights into city operations and the progress of Connect Green Bay, fostering greater trust and more regular communication.

Connect Green Bay’s key initiatives include the creation of a Data Governance Committee, launching in February 2025 to guide the citywide data strategy, the establishment of three-year departmental strategic priorities shaped by resident feedback, a workforce assessment to ensure staff are equipped with strong data skills, an external stakeholder feedback strategy inviting ideas from across the community, and a real-time online hub where anyone can check on progress and updates. Together, these efforts underscore Green Bay’s commitment to building a more transparent, inclusive, and data-driven future.

“With Connect Green Bay, Mayor Eric Genrich and his team have created an innovative blueprint for data use that will benefit the city’s residents for years to come,” says Latricia Boone, Senior Director of Partnerships and Strategy for the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence, which leads the City Data Alliance’s accelerator program, including executive education and individualized city coaching, consultation, and technical assistance. “The city’s commitment to transparency, its focus on resident impact, and its plan to equip staff with strong data skills reflect the best practices highlighted by the City Data Alliance.

The support provided to cities in the CDA helps mayors and their municipalities utilize data to inform decisions, tackle complex challenges, communicate results, and look ahead. Participating cities also receive the program’s assistance to upgrade their approach to artificial intelligence, enhance program evaluation, or implement “data-as-a-service”—designing or packaging data that promotes cross-government collaboration or resident engagement.

For more information on Green Bay’s data strategy and participation in the Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance, view the Connect Green Bay document.

For more information on the Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance, click here.

About The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance:

The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance helps mayors and their municipalities utilize data to inform decisions, tackle complex challenges, communicate results, and look ahead. Participating cities also receive the program’s support to upgrade their approach to artificial intelligence, program evaluation, or data as a service—designing or packaging data that promotes cross-government collaboration or resident engagement. The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance is delivered in partnership with the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence (GovEx) at Johns Hopkins University, along with the Behavioral Insights Team and Public Digital. The City Data Alliance aligns and builds on the success of the Bloomberg Philanthropies What Works Cities Certification, led by Results for America, a first-of-its-kind standard of excellence for data-informed, well-managed local government. Further advancing data leadership in cities, in October 2023, Bloomberg Philanthropies and GovEx launched City AI Connect, a global learning community and digital platform for cities to trial and advance the usage of generative artificial intelligence to improve public services, together. Comprised of more than 700 municipal leaders from over 250 cities around the world, City AI Connect is available at no cost for any local government official to use.