Balefire Global LLC

we provide open data training, civic engagement and client success to ngos and governments around the world. as an open data institute node we provide open data thought leadership and strategy as well as implementation and custom design. our goal is to build a citizen experience that leads to transparency and positive economic impact using your open government data. for the first time in history, more than 50 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas, and by 2050 nearly 70 percent of the global population will live in cities. that is an additional 2.7 billion people. cities are gathering places for higher education, they drive advances in public safety, healthcare, and the modernization of public services – they are the engines of new ideas and businesses that will drive technology adoption and breakthroughs in the future. govtech and gartner have both placed open data as the number 1 driver for innovation in mid-tier to first-tier cities. this is not just in the us. globa