"Martin O'Malley Joins MetroLab Network as National Advisor" [View all]

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"The government-research collaboration network has tapped the former Maryland governor to help build out its reach across the U.S."

The group announced the morning of May 5 that O’Malley will become a senior fellow with the group, which will first involve building an advisory committee to help connect the knowledge gleaned from city-university partnerships all around the country. The partnerships are aimed at not only developing technology that can help government work better, but sharing that knowledge so other cities can quickly adopt successful ideas.

O’Malley is a pretty natural fit for the role, said Ben Levine, interim director of the network — after all, one of his crowning achievements as governor and mayor was the development of programs aimed at gathering data and using it to improve the performance of government workers. At the Baltimore level, it was called CitiStat, and its results led to a wave of cities across the country adopting similar ideas.

http://www.govtech.com/Martin-OMalley-Joins-MetroLab-Network-as-National-Advisor.html