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"I have a brain cancer. Yesterday I went to get my digital medical records: I have to show them to many doctors. Sadly they were in a closed, proprietary format and, thus, I could not open them using my computer, or send them in this format to all the people who could have saved my life. I cracked them. I opened them and converted the contents into open formats, so that I could share them with everyone. Just today I have been able to share the data about my health condition (about my brain cancer) with 3 doctors. 2 of them already replied."

Update here: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/25/opinion/iaconesi-cure-open-source/index.html

The Open Data Platform Junar provides a cloud-based platform for opening data to drive innovation, collaboration, and to meet legislative goals."

Disappointed: the UK Govt discovers publishing open data does not create overnight a data literate society. 

A collaborative model and open standard for civic issue tracking.

Report on the first Corssover Project workshop: "Report on Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism" (aka PMOD)

FIve stars of open data engagement

The purpose of the project is to create and convene an interdisciplinary network of thinkers and doers that could help with making the transition from closed-and-centralized to open-and-collaborative institutions of governance.

Aaron Swartz's Manifesto. A lot of people care for open access.

Many people go into open source software without careful consideration of what that means. This presentations tells it like it is from the point of view of a developer. Great visuals.

How many pedestrians are present in the city? How do the behave over time? Good policy modeling requires accurate data.

Open data + education: some obvious synergies

Summary visualization of various open, demograpic data sets about the inhabitants of Rennes Métropolis.

Innoget provides a full range of services related to the acquisition, revaluation and marketing of technologies and addressing the needs of R&D and innovation. In an Open Innovation environment, innovation becomes yet another element at the service of companies which can be bought, sold or acquired stemming from the ideas, products and technologies of other organisations. Innoget is conceived with the clear aim of helping our clients in acquiring this innovation and revaluing their most innovative technologies. Services for companies looking for innovation * Intermediary Services: external knowledge searches including partner facilitation from evaluation through negotiation * Accessing technology solutions * Facilitating technology acquisition * Technology scouting Services for companies/research centers willing to commercialize innovative technologies * Technology enhancement: marketing technologies both online and direct personal contacts * Search of both commercial and technology partners

The White House Recently asked citizens to post suggestions on how to improve regulations.gov, data.gov, and the Federal web strategy. This is part two of a multi-part series on how to and more importantly, why we should consider changing the way these, (potentially) game-changing efforts could be improved. Here, we present some comments for regulations.gov and some suggestions on how changes could help improve the federal rulemaking process.

EC's portal with information and resources to help public administrations' publication of open data

Code for America is building a wiki on procurement, specifically oriented towards open source technology.