New White House open data executive order: how does it compare to the British version?
www.guardian.co.uk
on 05/10/2013
Excerpt: The White House has released an executive order today committing all federal government data to be open and machine-readable. Signed by President Barack Obama – who was also one of the people behind the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Bill of 2006, back in the day when he was a Senator. That Bill became an act – and led directly to the creation of data. gov. Just for reference, an executive order is a decree of the President which has the full force of law. They don't exist in the UK in the same way, but back in 2010, then-new Prime Minister David Cameron wrote a public letter to senior civil servants, the cabinet and members of the government setting out what the government planned to do with open data.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Federal Government, Open Data
Sunlight Foundation: Open Data Executive Order Shows Path Forward
sunlightfoundation.com
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. Open Data Executive Order Shows Path Forward
by John Wonderlich May 9, 2013, 10:17 a. m.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Federal Government, Open Data
Reinhart-Rogoff Revisited: Why we need open data in economics
openeconomics.net
on 04/18/2013
Excerpt: Another economics scandal made the news this week. Harvard Kennedy School professor Carmen Reinhart and Harvard University professor Kenneth Rogoff argued in their 2010 NBER paper that economic growth slows down when the debt/GDP ratio exceeds the threshold of 90 percent of GDP. These results were also published in one of the most prestigious economics journals – the American Economic Review (AER) – and had a powerful resonance in a period of serious economic and public policy turmoil when governments around the world slashed spending in order to decrease the public deficit and stimulate economic growth. Carmen Reinhart
Kenneth Rogoff
Yet, they were proven wrong.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Financial, Open Data
The messy reality of open data and politics
www.guardian.co.uk
on 04/08/2013
Excerpt: It is perhaps unsurprising that there is growing awareness of the political nature of open data policies. It is only by ignoring the messy reality of both data and politics that positivists can suggest the release of data will inevitably lead to more 'rational' and evidence-based government. In practice, datasets themselves are political objects, and policies to open up datasets are the product of politics. If you look beyond the binary fight over whether government data should be open or not, then you will find a far more subtle set of political questions over the what and the how of opening data. Datasets are built from the categories and relationships that the database designer (or their political masters) decide are important.... read the full post.
Tags: Data, Open Data, opendata, opengov, Transparency
Open Data Has Little Value If People Can't Use It
blogs.hbr.org
on 03/29/2013
Excerpt: Open data could be the gamechanger when it comes to eradicating global poverty. In the last two years, central and local governments and multilateral organizations around the world have opened a range of data — information on budgets, infrastructure, health, sanitation, education, and more — online, for free. The data are not perfect, but then perfection is not the goal. Rather, the goal is for this data to become actionable intelligence: a launchpad for investigation, analysis, triangulation, and improved decision making at all levels.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, Open Data, opendata
City of Philadelphia open data release schedule
technical.ly
on 03/26/2013
Excerpt: Get an inside look at the City of Philadelphia's open data processes with a new site that lists a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. By Juliana Reyes / staff
Get another inside look at the City of Philadelphia‘s open data processes with its new open data calendar. The site has a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. Visit the site here. Particularly of note is that City Employee Salary data is scheduled to be released this summer, according to the site.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Civic, Open Data
School of Open launches with OpenGLAM course
openglam.org
on 03/12/2013
Excerpt: This week is Open Education Week and to celebrate the first courses on the School of Open are launched. The School offers courses on the meaning, application, and impact of “openness” in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and beyond. It is coordinated by P2PU and Creative Commons. The School offers all kinds of courses related to openness. You can learn about creative commons licenses, open data in science, copyright for educators, and now also how to open your cultural institution’s data.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Open, Open Data
Data Sharing: Poor Status Quo in Economics
openeconomics.net
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: The paper analyzes the data sharing behavior of 488 randomly chosen empirical economists. More specifically, the researchers under study were chosen uniformly across the top 100 economics departments and the top 50 business schools and randomly within the respective institution. Economics departments were chosen using the Shanghai Ranking 2011 in Economics and Business and business schools were chosen using the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2011. Data sharing is an essential feature for replication, self-correction and subsequent research.... read the full post.
Tags: API Economy, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Open Data
What Can Open Data do for You?
opencolorado.org
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: As an OpenColorado board member and promoter of open government, I have worked to educate people about the opportunities that can be created from sharing government data, known as open data. Government’s sharing data creates many opportunities for transparency, collaboration, community building, and economic development. There have been many papers, articles, blogs, and opinions that illustrate the benefits of open data. Still, I am always excited when I see the benefits of open data in my own life. In this case, my excitement came from using Denver’s Crime Map while looking for a new house. I was getting ready to make an offer on a house, so I wanted to look up information about the neighborhood.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, City Government, Municipal, Open Data, State Government, Story
Chicago Using Github Has Potential For More Citizen Participation in Government @ Kin Lane
kinlane.com
on 03/04/2013
Excerpt: Github is not just a site for managing code, for use by programmers. The platform can host code, data, markup, markdown and files like images, pdf, etc. Basically anything you can store in a file, and apply versioning to, you can put Github to work, helping you manage collaboration and the assets evolution. The City of Chicago just published five datasets including street locations, building footprints, bike routes, pedway routes and bike rack locations on Github--released under the MIT license, giving anyone the right to download, modify and reuse, even for commercial purposes.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government, Data, GitHub, Open Data, Open source
Excerpt: Stay up to date on Sunlight’s work in D. C. , throughout the country and around the world, as well as the latest open government, transparency and technology news. Open Data Executive Order Shows Path Forward by John Wonderlich May 9, 2013, 10:17 a. m.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Federal Government, Open Data
Reinhart-Rogoff Revisited: Why we need open data in economics
openeconomics.net
on 04/18/2013
Excerpt: Another economics scandal made the news this week. Harvard Kennedy School professor Carmen Reinhart and Harvard University professor Kenneth Rogoff argued in their 2010 NBER paper that economic growth slows down when the debt/GDP ratio exceeds the threshold of 90 percent of GDP. These results were also published in one of the most prestigious economics journals – the American Economic Review (AER) – and had a powerful resonance in a period of serious economic and public policy turmoil when governments around the world slashed spending in order to decrease the public deficit and stimulate economic growth. Carmen Reinhart
Kenneth Rogoff
Yet, they were proven wrong.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Financial, Open Data
The messy reality of open data and politics
www.guardian.co.uk
on 04/08/2013
Excerpt: It is perhaps unsurprising that there is growing awareness of the political nature of open data policies. It is only by ignoring the messy reality of both data and politics that positivists can suggest the release of data will inevitably lead to more 'rational' and evidence-based government. In practice, datasets themselves are political objects, and policies to open up datasets are the product of politics. If you look beyond the binary fight over whether government data should be open or not, then you will find a far more subtle set of political questions over the what and the how of opening data. Datasets are built from the categories and relationships that the database designer (or their political masters) decide are important.... read the full post.
Tags: Data, Open Data, opendata, opengov, Transparency
Open Data Has Little Value If People Can't Use It
blogs.hbr.org
on 03/29/2013
Excerpt: Open data could be the gamechanger when it comes to eradicating global poverty. In the last two years, central and local governments and multilateral organizations around the world have opened a range of data — information on budgets, infrastructure, health, sanitation, education, and more — online, for free. The data are not perfect, but then perfection is not the goal. Rather, the goal is for this data to become actionable intelligence: a launchpad for investigation, analysis, triangulation, and improved decision making at all levels.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, Open Data, opendata
City of Philadelphia open data release schedule
technical.ly
on 03/26/2013
Excerpt: Get an inside look at the City of Philadelphia's open data processes with a new site that lists a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. By Juliana Reyes / staff
Get another inside look at the City of Philadelphia‘s open data processes with its new open data calendar. The site has a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. Visit the site here. Particularly of note is that City Employee Salary data is scheduled to be released this summer, according to the site.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Civic, Open Data
School of Open launches with OpenGLAM course
openglam.org
on 03/12/2013
Excerpt: This week is Open Education Week and to celebrate the first courses on the School of Open are launched. The School offers courses on the meaning, application, and impact of “openness” in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and beyond. It is coordinated by P2PU and Creative Commons. The School offers all kinds of courses related to openness. You can learn about creative commons licenses, open data in science, copyright for educators, and now also how to open your cultural institution’s data.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Open, Open Data
Data Sharing: Poor Status Quo in Economics
openeconomics.net
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: The paper analyzes the data sharing behavior of 488 randomly chosen empirical economists. More specifically, the researchers under study were chosen uniformly across the top 100 economics departments and the top 50 business schools and randomly within the respective institution. Economics departments were chosen using the Shanghai Ranking 2011 in Economics and Business and business schools were chosen using the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2011. Data sharing is an essential feature for replication, self-correction and subsequent research.... read the full post.
Tags: API Economy, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Open Data
What Can Open Data do for You?
opencolorado.org
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: As an OpenColorado board member and promoter of open government, I have worked to educate people about the opportunities that can be created from sharing government data, known as open data. Government’s sharing data creates many opportunities for transparency, collaboration, community building, and economic development. There have been many papers, articles, blogs, and opinions that illustrate the benefits of open data. Still, I am always excited when I see the benefits of open data in my own life. In this case, my excitement came from using Denver’s Crime Map while looking for a new house. I was getting ready to make an offer on a house, so I wanted to look up information about the neighborhood.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, City Government, Municipal, Open Data, State Government, Story
Chicago Using Github Has Potential For More Citizen Participation in Government @ Kin Lane
kinlane.com
on 03/04/2013
Excerpt: Github is not just a site for managing code, for use by programmers. The platform can host code, data, markup, markdown and files like images, pdf, etc. Basically anything you can store in a file, and apply versioning to, you can put Github to work, helping you manage collaboration and the assets evolution. The City of Chicago just published five datasets including street locations, building footprints, bike routes, pedway routes and bike rack locations on Github--released under the MIT license, giving anyone the right to download, modify and reuse, even for commercial purposes.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government, Data, GitHub, Open Data, Open source
Excerpt: It is perhaps unsurprising that there is growing awareness of the political nature of open data policies. It is only by ignoring the messy reality of both data and politics that positivists can suggest the release of data will inevitably lead to more 'rational' and evidence-based government. In practice, datasets themselves are political objects, and policies to open up datasets are the product of politics. If you look beyond the binary fight over whether government data should be open or not, then you will find a far more subtle set of political questions over the what and the how of opening data. Datasets are built from the categories and relationships that the database designer (or their political masters) decide are important.... read the full post.
Tags: Data, Open Data, opendata, opengov, Transparency
Open Data Has Little Value If People Can't Use It
blogs.hbr.org
on 03/29/2013
Excerpt: Open data could be the gamechanger when it comes to eradicating global poverty. In the last two years, central and local governments and multilateral organizations around the world have opened a range of data — information on budgets, infrastructure, health, sanitation, education, and more — online, for free. The data are not perfect, but then perfection is not the goal. Rather, the goal is for this data to become actionable intelligence: a launchpad for investigation, analysis, triangulation, and improved decision making at all levels.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, Open Data, opendata
City of Philadelphia open data release schedule
technical.ly
on 03/26/2013
Excerpt: Get an inside look at the City of Philadelphia's open data processes with a new site that lists a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. By Juliana Reyes / staff
Get another inside look at the City of Philadelphia‘s open data processes with its new open data calendar. The site has a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. Visit the site here. Particularly of note is that City Employee Salary data is scheduled to be released this summer, according to the site.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Civic, Open Data
School of Open launches with OpenGLAM course
openglam.org
on 03/12/2013
Excerpt: This week is Open Education Week and to celebrate the first courses on the School of Open are launched. The School offers courses on the meaning, application, and impact of “openness” in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and beyond. It is coordinated by P2PU and Creative Commons. The School offers all kinds of courses related to openness. You can learn about creative commons licenses, open data in science, copyright for educators, and now also how to open your cultural institution’s data.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Open, Open Data
Data Sharing: Poor Status Quo in Economics
openeconomics.net
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: The paper analyzes the data sharing behavior of 488 randomly chosen empirical economists. More specifically, the researchers under study were chosen uniformly across the top 100 economics departments and the top 50 business schools and randomly within the respective institution. Economics departments were chosen using the Shanghai Ranking 2011 in Economics and Business and business schools were chosen using the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2011. Data sharing is an essential feature for replication, self-correction and subsequent research.... read the full post.
Tags: API Economy, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Open Data
What Can Open Data do for You?
opencolorado.org
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: As an OpenColorado board member and promoter of open government, I have worked to educate people about the opportunities that can be created from sharing government data, known as open data. Government’s sharing data creates many opportunities for transparency, collaboration, community building, and economic development. There have been many papers, articles, blogs, and opinions that illustrate the benefits of open data. Still, I am always excited when I see the benefits of open data in my own life. In this case, my excitement came from using Denver’s Crime Map while looking for a new house. I was getting ready to make an offer on a house, so I wanted to look up information about the neighborhood.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, City Government, Municipal, Open Data, State Government, Story
Chicago Using Github Has Potential For More Citizen Participation in Government @ Kin Lane
kinlane.com
on 03/04/2013
Excerpt: Github is not just a site for managing code, for use by programmers. The platform can host code, data, markup, markdown and files like images, pdf, etc. Basically anything you can store in a file, and apply versioning to, you can put Github to work, helping you manage collaboration and the assets evolution. The City of Chicago just published five datasets including street locations, building footprints, bike routes, pedway routes and bike rack locations on Github--released under the MIT license, giving anyone the right to download, modify and reuse, even for commercial purposes.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government, Data, GitHub, Open Data, Open source
Excerpt: Get an inside look at the City of Philadelphia's open data processes with a new site that lists a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. By Juliana Reyes / staff Get another inside look at the City of Philadelphia‘s open data processes with its new open data calendar. The site has a rough schedule of more than a dozen upcoming open data releases, as well as data sets that are being considered for release. Visit the site here. Particularly of note is that City Employee Salary data is scheduled to be released this summer, according to the site.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City Government, Civic, Open Data
School of Open launches with OpenGLAM course
openglam.org
on 03/12/2013
Excerpt: This week is Open Education Week and to celebrate the first courses on the School of Open are launched. The School offers courses on the meaning, application, and impact of “openness” in the digital age and its benefit to creative endeavors, education, research, and beyond. It is coordinated by P2PU and Creative Commons. The School offers all kinds of courses related to openness. You can learn about creative commons licenses, open data in science, copyright for educators, and now also how to open your cultural institution’s data.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Open, Open Data
Data Sharing: Poor Status Quo in Economics
openeconomics.net
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: The paper analyzes the data sharing behavior of 488 randomly chosen empirical economists. More specifically, the researchers under study were chosen uniformly across the top 100 economics departments and the top 50 business schools and randomly within the respective institution. Economics departments were chosen using the Shanghai Ranking 2011 in Economics and Business and business schools were chosen using the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2011. Data sharing is an essential feature for replication, self-correction and subsequent research.... read the full post.
Tags: API Economy, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Open Data
What Can Open Data do for You?
opencolorado.org
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: As an OpenColorado board member and promoter of open government, I have worked to educate people about the opportunities that can be created from sharing government data, known as open data. Government’s sharing data creates many opportunities for transparency, collaboration, community building, and economic development. There have been many papers, articles, blogs, and opinions that illustrate the benefits of open data. Still, I am always excited when I see the benefits of open data in my own life. In this case, my excitement came from using Denver’s Crime Map while looking for a new house. I was getting ready to make an offer on a house, so I wanted to look up information about the neighborhood.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, City Government, Municipal, Open Data, State Government, Story
Chicago Using Github Has Potential For More Citizen Participation in Government @ Kin Lane
kinlane.com
on 03/04/2013
Excerpt: Github is not just a site for managing code, for use by programmers. The platform can host code, data, markup, markdown and files like images, pdf, etc. Basically anything you can store in a file, and apply versioning to, you can put Github to work, helping you manage collaboration and the assets evolution. The City of Chicago just published five datasets including street locations, building footprints, bike routes, pedway routes and bike rack locations on Github--released under the MIT license, giving anyone the right to download, modify and reuse, even for commercial purposes.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government, Data, GitHub, Open Data, Open source
Excerpt: The paper analyzes the data sharing behavior of 488 randomly chosen empirical economists. More specifically, the researchers under study were chosen uniformly across the top 100 economics departments and the top 50 business schools and randomly within the respective institution. Economics departments were chosen using the Shanghai Ranking 2011 in Economics and Business and business schools were chosen using the Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2011. Data sharing is an essential feature for replication, self-correction and subsequent research.... read the full post.
Tags: API Economy, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Open Data
What Can Open Data do for You?
opencolorado.org
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: As an OpenColorado board member and promoter of open government, I have worked to educate people about the opportunities that can be created from sharing government data, known as open data. Government’s sharing data creates many opportunities for transparency, collaboration, community building, and economic development. There have been many papers, articles, blogs, and opinions that illustrate the benefits of open data. Still, I am always excited when I see the benefits of open data in my own life. In this case, my excitement came from using Denver’s Crime Map while looking for a new house. I was getting ready to make an offer on a house, so I wanted to look up information about the neighborhood.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, City Government, Municipal, Open Data, State Government, Story
Chicago Using Github Has Potential For More Citizen Participation in Government @ Kin Lane
kinlane.com
on 03/04/2013
Excerpt: Github is not just a site for managing code, for use by programmers. The platform can host code, data, markup, markdown and files like images, pdf, etc. Basically anything you can store in a file, and apply versioning to, you can put Github to work, helping you manage collaboration and the assets evolution. The City of Chicago just published five datasets including street locations, building footprints, bike routes, pedway routes and bike rack locations on Github--released under the MIT license, giving anyone the right to download, modify and reuse, even for commercial purposes.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government, Data, GitHub, Open Data, Open source
Excerpt: Github is not just a site for managing code, for use by programmers. The platform can host code, data, markup, markdown and files like images, pdf, etc. Basically anything you can store in a file, and apply versioning to, you can put Github to work, helping you manage collaboration and the assets evolution. The City of Chicago just published five datasets including street locations, building footprints, bike routes, pedway routes and bike rack locations on Github--released under the MIT license, giving anyone the right to download, modify and reuse, even for commercial purposes.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, City Government, Data, GitHub, Open Data, Open source
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