A Euro project looking at the impact of citizen participation in a knowledge-intensive policy field.

Attempt at massive online deliberation, now defunct. Non-mathematically fair, but it seems to have mapped the civil society's priorities somewhat. 

Nifty website for querying any EU bodies. They are bound to answer under a sort of FOIA.

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

Python-based desktop app for creating visualizations based on CSV files

FIve stars of open data engagement

Approved March 2012

A Danish computer exec creates an IT company that employs people with Asperger syndrome. Makes sense.

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

Code for America collects and maps 150 apps for citizen engagement

A critical perspective on Iceland's crowdsourced constitution

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.

Popular CMS software like Wordpress and Drupal opens the way to a new figure of "advanced admin", who can wield a lot of control on her website while not doing any actual coding. This enables public sector officials to become very good at having constructive conversation wt their developers, and consequently at procuring websites.