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Topics of this book include principles, uses for transparency and civic engagement, a brief legal history, data quality, civic hacking, and paradoxes in transparency.

BudgIT is creative start-up driven to retell the Nigerian budget and public data  in a finer detail across every literacy span.  We aim to stimulate citizens interests around public data and hence trigger  discussions towards better governance. We are committed to principles of open data & governance, citizen participation and data transparency. 

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

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.

A pilot program that enables people to submit comments about certain District agencies and view how District residents graded those agencies. The goal is to help residents engage better with government and help government agencies improve the quality of their services.

A collaborative model and open standard for civic issue tracking.

De Argumentenfabriek helps organizations think clearly and make better decisions via transparent and structured mapping of complex issues.

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

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

Open government data index. Pretty tricky weighted average with subjective parametric weights.