The city is offering little direction to potential applicants, hoping to encourage creativity in their proposals to eliminate waste and litter.

As The City of Brotherly Love works to get smarter, city CIO Mark Wheeler says governance and strategic planning are key.

Following a yearlong multi-agency effort, the city has published what transparency advocates consider one of the most important accountability tools available.

Wheeler, a longtime public servant who had been the interim CIO, says diversity, the issue that first opened the chief information officer's seat, belongs in the city's technology agency.