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Mayor Murray signs historic Open Data Executive Order

Mayor Ed Murray today renewed the City of Seattle’s commitment to transparency by signing an Executive Order directing all City departments to comply with a new open data policy, which he announced during last week’s State of the City address.

Mayors support FCC proposal on broadband access for lower-income families

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has joined mayors and city officials from across the country to support the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposal to improve Internet access for low-income families through the federal Lifeline program.

Seattle approves revised cable franchise agreement with Comcast

Today the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to approve the renewal of Comcast’s cable-television franchise agreement. The 10-year agreement between Comcast and the City of Seattle includes significant benefits intended to improve Internet access in Seattle.

City to take up new, revised franchise agreement with Comcast

The City of Seattle has reached a tentative agreement with Comcast to renew the company’s non-exclusive franchise, which allows the company to provide cable television service to Seattle households. The revised agreement follows a letter Mayor Ed Murray and Seattle City Councilmember Bruce Harrell sent to Comcast asking for additional digital equity commitments for Seattle in light of Comcast’s recently announced agreement with the City of Philadelphia.

City receives national Digital Inclusion Best Practices Award

The National League of Cities, Next Century Cities, and Google Fiber awarded the City of Seattle one of their inaugural Digital Inclusion Leadership awards. The award was presented to the City of Seattle’s Department of Information Technology’s Community Technology Program on Thursday, November 5th, at the National League of Cities’ Congress of Cities event in Nashville, Tennessee.

City rolls out innovative privacy program

The City of Seattle is implementing its groundbreaking Privacy Initiative by distributing a toolkit to City departments on how to incorporate these principles into daily operations.