Business Insider – by Portia Crowe
Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has a plan to improve 100 cities across the US, and he’s dropping $42 million to see it happen.
The multibillionaire will use his charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, to fund a program that helps municipal governments around the country use data to do their jobs better, according to a press release.
The cities have not yet been chosen, but they will all be “midsized.” Only 275 can apply, and then Hizzoner will chose who gets the funds.
Bloomberg described his plan in a Huffington Post blog earlier this week:
City governments have a responsibility to make the most of every dollar, and data helps them do that. When cities keep close track of their progress, they can quickly change course when programs don’t work as expected, rather than throwing good money after bad. Data also allows cities to direct funding to programs based on results, not intentions — and it allows the public to hold mayors accountable for getting the job done.
The program will partner with numerous data-analysis organizations, including the Sunlight Foundation, Results for America, and research centers at Johns Hopkins University and the Harvard Kennedy School, to help the 100-odd midsize cities use and analyze data to better serve their citizens.
Cities with between 100,000 and 1 million residents are invited to apply to the program, which they can do here.
Here’s the HuffPo piece:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-bloomberg/bloomberg-what-works-cities-data_b_7097304.html
“In Louisville, Kentucky, city government has asked volunteers to attach GPS trackers to their asthma inhalers to see where they have the hardest time breathing. The city is now using that data to better target the sources of air pollution.”
Everywhere , everytime they spray us
That’s BS… everyone knows the sources of air pollution. I don’t know what their reason is for dong this, but the reason they gave sounds like a lie to me.
They may be tracking how many times they need their inhaler if something from the chemtrails can be expected hit hit asthma sufferers first. (bona fide conspiracy theory here)
“The multibillionaire will use his charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies,…”
CHARITABLE???
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Far as I got.
Only 275 can apply, and then Hizzoner will chose who gets the funds.
And the funds will be distributed according to how many people they successfully disarm.