"This site aims to make some of that information more easily accessible, and to encourage transparency in government. This site is a volunteer, spare-time effort of mine. I built it because I think Parliament's goings-on are important-alternately fascinating, boring, and depressing, but important-and because I believe that public information should be meaningfully public, which today means shareable and computer-readable."
""Of course we should know how our representatives are representing us, of course we should be able to see what's being done with our tax dollars," Mulley writes on the site. "But, as information and data become increasingly synonymous, making information available isn't enough. To be useful, it has to be usable. It has to be freely available, in a flexible digital format. It has to be open.""
"We need to organise Government data and software using an agreed set of standards that make our IT more open, cheaper and better connected. Following the outcome of a public consultation on Open Standards: Open Opportunities, we've set out in Open Standards Principles the rules that government bodies must follow when specifying their IT."
"Today PSI reuse happens very, very, very seldom and this produces all kinds of paradoxes and waste: there are PAs that pay private companies for packaged versions of the data that they themselves produced and licensed very cheaply to those companies, citizens that cannot see or must pay to see data they paid for with their taxes, small businesses that sometimes can't even start because they'd need data that should be public and free but aren't."
"We have updated and expanded upon the Sebastopol list and identified ten principles that provide a lens to evaluate the extent to which government data is open and accessible to the public. The list is not exhaustive, and each principle exists along a continuum of openness. The principles are completeness, primacy, timeliness, ease of physical and electronic access, machine readability, non-discrimination, use of commonly owned standards, licensing, permanence and usage costs. "
"This paper takes a pragmatic mixed-methods approach to exploring uses of data from the UK national open government data portal, data.gov.uk, and identifies how the emerging practices of OGD use are developing."
"Tim Davies has published the results of his MSc dissertation research into the impact of open government data. It is suggested reading for those interested in how Open Government Data can strengthen the public sphere. "
"FROM antiquity to modern times, the nation has always been a product of information management. The ability to impose taxes, promulgate laws, count citizens and raise an army lies at the heart of statehood. Yet something new is afoot. These days democratic openness means more than that citizens can vote at regular intervals in free and fair elections. They also expect to have access to government data."
JHS-järjestelmän mukaiset suositukset koskevat valtion- ja kunnallishallinnon tietohallintoa. Sisällöltään JHS voi olla julkishallinnossa käytettäväksi tarkoitettu yhtenäinen menettelytapa, määrittely tai ohje. JHS-järjestelmän tavoitteena on parantaa tietojärjestelmien ja niiden tietojen yhteentoimivuutta, luoda edellytykset hallinto- ja sektorirajoista riippumattomalle toimintojen kehittämiselle sekä tehostaa olemassa olevan tiedon hyödyntämistä.
"The Open Data Catalogue is an attempt to classify where this [open] information resides, who 'owns' it, what license it is distributed under and if it is free or not."
"We develop and host projects around transparency, participatory democracy, and generally making central and local government useful to citizens and businesses."
"This consultation relates to proposals made by the Prime Minister on 17 November 2009, to make certain Ordnance Survey datasets\navailable for free with no restrictions on re-use.
Scope of this consultation:
The consultation seeks views about how we best implement the above proposal, in the context of other strategic options for Ordnance Survey and the wider geographic information market."
"OM:lla hanke sähköisen demokratian edistämisestä (SADe-ohjelma, http://bit.ly/cRUPhX ), tähän liittyy myös datan avaamista, kansalaisten osallistumisen tukemista (voimaannuttaminen?) ja osallistumisympäristön rakentaminen. Suurempia suunnitelmia avoimuudelle siis on, mutta niiden tähtäin on vuosien päässä."
"The National Data Catalog (NDC) is an open source catalog for government data sets and APIs. Our goal is to have it encompass all data released by or about governments in the United States. This includes federal, state, and local jurisdictions. The NDC will harness the community of users interested in open government data."
"Besides the fact that we include data from multiple branches of government, there are a few great reasons why the National Data Catalog is a great resource for government data. Most importantly, the system has its own built in documentation system powered by our community. This will help make government data more useful by making it so we don't all have to learn the nuance of a particular dataset individually. Now those resources can be shared."
"The report presented various roles for e-government in addressing the ongoing world financial and economic crisis. The public trust that is gained through transparency can be further enhanced through the free sharing of government data based on open standards. The ability of e-government to handle speed and complexity can also underpin regulatory reform. While technology is no substitute for good policy, it may give citizens the power to question the actions of regulators and bring systemic issues to the fore."
"If Toronto opened up its data, any number of wonderful things could happen. That was the promise from open data activists --. After much pressure and a NOW cover story on the subject, Toronto opened up some data. So now, where are all those wonderful things that were promised? David Eaves, Canada's open government advocate, has a few ideas why a movement with an impressive wingspan has yet to fly."
"This research, commissioned by a consortium of funders and NGOs (including the Information Program) under the umbrella of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, seeks to explore the feasibility of applying this approach to open data in relevant middle income and developing countries. Its aim is to identify the strategies used in the US and UK contexts with a view to building a set of criteria to guide the selection of pilot countries, which in turn suggests a template strategy to open government data."