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Johann Höchtl

How do we get government to share data? - O'Reilly Radar - 1 views

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opendata crime value force

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  • How, then, does the public get access to data, and ideally, to raw data streams?
  • Using force, by changing the laws or creating new regulations
  • Using intimidation, by enlisting the news media to pressure the agency
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  • By creating value for agencies to entice them to share the data.
  • So what, exactly, is public data? Is crime data actually public data, and do agencies have to provide it? If so, why don’t they provide it as a raw data feed? The answer is this: while crime data concerns the general public, it is not exactly public data per se
  • Johann Höchtl on 19 Nov 10
     
    Drivers for open data
Johann Höchtl

Open 311 - 0 views

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open311 JSON XML API open data

shared by Johann Höchtl on 08 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    Open311 is a form of technology that provides open channels of communication for issues that concern public space and public services. Primarily, Open311 refers to a standardized technology for location-based collaborative issue-tracking. By offering free web API access to an existing 311 service, Open311 is an evolution of the phone-based 311 systems that many cities in North America offer.
Johann Höchtl

eGovMon - eGovernment Monitor - 1 views

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participation monitor framework Norwegen egovernment opengov

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  • Parycek on 21 Jun 10
     
    The eGovMon project is developing methodology and software for quality evaluation of web services, in particular eGovernment services, concerning four areas: Accessibility / Transparency / Efficiency / Impact
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Open Government Data - 1 views

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opendata overview opengov

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  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    There are currently a number of exciting initiatives to release government data in bulk, these include: ... What about civil society initiatives?* At the EU level ...
Johann Höchtl

Free Our Books and research papers - 1 views

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books free research open access

shared by Johann Höchtl on 16 Apr 10 - Cached
  • We, the citizens, through the state, pay for the production of academic books and research papers twice, first through salaries and research grants, and second through the purchase of books and journal subscriptions. This is how the the most fundamental principles of academia, to study and to share its findings, are obstructed, and its operation is made far more expensive and cumbersome.
Johann Höchtl

GSA Takes Another Big Step Forward - 1 views

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SNS social web sites agreement USA

shared by Johann Höchtl on 16 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Having a terms-of-service agreement with these new media providers will make it easier for government agencies to create pages and use them to dramatically increase access to information, offer education on government services, and further empower citizens to interact with government.
Johann Höchtl

Study links online transparency efforts, trust in government - Nextgov - 0 views

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transparency study value USA

shared by Johann Höchtl on 23 Apr 10 - Cached
  • The first-ever quantitative assessment of online open government efforts has concluded that the perceived transparency of federal Web sites drives trust in government.
  • The longstanding approach to quantifying transparency has been, "well let's measure how much data they put out there," said Larry Freed, ForeSee Results' president and chief executive officer. "To me, that's not measuring transparency. That may be measuring confusion."
  • "If citizens find e-government transparent, they are more likely to return to the site, recommend it, and use it instead of a more costly channel," the study found. "They even express more trust in the government agency."
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  • Citizens who believe a site is highly transparent are 46 percent more likely to trust the overall government, 49 percent more likely to use the site as a primary resource and 37 percent more likely to return to the site, according to the study.
  • McClure also noted that a site's perceived transparency can save the government money by encouraging citizens to access services online, rather than through less efficient channels.
  • Other departments that want to make their sites more transparent "should stand firm when those at the helm pressure them to ignore what the audience wants, and instead design for the internal audience,"
Johann Höchtl

Why Every Brand Needs an Open API for Developers - 1 views

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API brand opendata value R&D

shared by Johann Höchtl on 05 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • With APIs, you let other developers do your R&D for you. The benefit? You get development at scale with minimal investment. You effectively outsource risk because failures don’t cost you anything.
  • It’s easy to envision how brands whose core business revolves around technology or data could make use of an API
  • By providing access to that value through an API, they would allow the delivery of that value to spread exponentially.
  • Johann Höchtl on 05 Jan 11
     
    Begründungen, warum offene API's einen Mehrwert bringen. Auch anwendbar für Open Data
Johann Höchtl

How Open Data is Used Against the Poor - 0 views

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opendata empowering poor literacy

shared by Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • An 'effective use' approach to open data would thus be one that ensured that opportunities and resources for translating this open data into useful outcomes would be available (and adapted) for the widest possible range of users. Thus, to ensure the effective use of open data a range of considerations needs to be included in the open data process and as elements in the open data movement including such factors as the cost and availability of Internet access, the language in which the data is presented, the technical or professional requirements for interpreting and making use of the data, the availability of training in data use and visualization, among others.
Johann Höchtl

Open Data (2): Effective Data Use « Gurstein's Community Informatics - 0 views

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opendata empowering literacy lawsuit

shared by Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • I will itemize what I think are the various elements that are required to be in place on the end user side for effective use of open data to take place
  • Internet access
  • Computer/software skills
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  • Interpretation/Sense making
  • Governance – the required financing, legal, regulatory or policy regime, required to enable the use to which the data would be put.
Johann Höchtl

High Scalability - High Scalability - Web 2.0 Killed the Middleware Star - 0 views

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API scale middleware REST web2.0 web2+

shared by Johann Höchtl on 27 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Web 2.0 applications don’t generally use a middleware tier to facilitate messaging across users or applications. They use APIs and web-based database access methods to go directly to the source.
  • it certainly appears that between cloud computing models and Web 2.0 having been forced to solve the shared messaging concept without middleware – and having done so successfully – that middleware as a service is obsolete.
Johann Höchtl

Data without borders: why I want to change the world | Jake Porway | News | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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opendata data ushahidi social

shared by Johann Höchtl on 28 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • It should come as no surprise to readers of Datablog that, as editor Simon Rogers puts it himself, "we are drowning in data." We suddenly find ourselves with unprecedented access to torrents of data that could be used to better society.
  • To help bridge the gap between socially minded organizations and do-good dataists, we started a project temporarily dubbed "Data Without Borders".
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