This is a major step in the City's overall strategy to modernize its digital infrastructure to increase transparency and foster data-driven innovation, both internally and through civic partnerships.

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For a great many years evolution was conceived as being driven externally by environmental pressures and internally by mutations in DNA. Mutations in the DNA created genetic diversity and when there were changes in the environment, those animals with the mutated DNA were sudden in a more favorable position.

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