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solve the shared messaging concept without middleware – and having done so successfully – that middleware as a service is obsolete.

Data Without Borders seeks to match non-profits in need of data analysis with freelance and pro bono data scientists who can work to help them with data collection, analysis, visualization, or decision support.

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".

Home From IMMI Jump to: navigation, search The International Modern Media Institute is working towards rethinking media regulation for the digital age.

The Icelandic Parliament unanimously agreed to task the government with implementing the protections we proposed, and this work is now in progress.

The role of the Constitutional Council is to discuss the Constitutional Committee Report and prepare a bill about a revised constitution, taking into consideration the results of the National Forum 2010.

The candidates could also place introductions about themselves on the webpages: dv.is, svipan.is, wikipedia.com and on facebook.com/stjornlagathing.

The report finds that 3 key groups or ‘layers’ were crucial to the successful introduction of open data. An influential and active civil society provided the ‘bottom up’ pressure for change through traditional advocacy and by setting up innovative websites demonstrating how open information could be used. Civil servants and state and federal administrators who saw open data as a way of improving efficiency provided the ‘middle layer’. Finally, high-level political leaders including Heads of States and Ministers provided the third layer.

They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. Use digress.it to collectively dissect public documents like political speeches, corporate contracts or government transcripts.

digress.it makes this private space public, allowing communities of readers to turn documents into conversations

In this tutorial we will build a tile cache of the Massachusetts data we loaded in Part 1 and then render it in OpenLayers.

The Agile methodology is meant to deliver IT projects flexibly, in iterations.

But the lack of clearly defined project roles and requirements is a problem for Agile.

There are four clear reasons why Agile won't work in government ICT. The most obvious is that government customers want to know up-front how much a system will cost

European public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets every year

We are challenging designers, developers, journalists, researchers and the general public to come up with something useful, valuable or interesting using open public data.

NASA attempted something new and revolutionary on March 29 & 30, 2011. The Agency hosted the first ever NASA Open Source Summit.

The diverse community was offered multiple methods to engage in sessions about challenges within NASA’s existing Open Source framework

as hochschulstatistische Informationssystem des Bundesministeriums fürWissenschaft und Forschung

Hauptaufgabe

ist die Bereitstellung von aktuellen Zahlen und Fakten über den österreichischen Hochschulbereich auf Knopfdruck

The release of this report comes on the heels of the first anniversary of the Open Government Directive issued in December 2009.

Professors Lee and Kwak present a road map — the Open Government Implementation Model — that agencies can follow in moving toward accomplishing the objectives of the Directive