Obama Administration Releases Historic Open Data Rules to Enhance Government Efficiency and Fuel Economic Growth | The White House
www.whitehouse.gov
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: The Obama Administration today took groundbreaking new steps to make information generated and stored by the Federal Government more open and accessible to innovators and the public, to fuel entrepreneurship and economic growth while increasing government transparency and efficiency. Today’s actions—including an Executive Order signed by the President and an Open Data Policy released by the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Science and Technology Policy—declare that information is a valuable national asset whose value is multiplied when it is made easily accessible to the public.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Federal Government, opendata
Executive Order -- Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information | The White House
www.whitehouse.gov
on 05/09/2013
Excerpt: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. General Principles. Openness in government strengthens our democracy, promotes the delivery of efficient and effective services to the public, and contributes to economic growth. As one vital benefit of open government, making information resources easy to find, accessible, and usable can fuel entrepreneurship, innovation, and scientific discovery that improves Americans' lives and contributes significantly to job creation. Decades ago, the U. S. Government made both weather data and the Global Positioning System freely available.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Data, Federal Government, opendata
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
Home
appcitylife.com
on 04/03/2013
Excerpt: From multiple groups within city government to companies with a variety of products, APPCityLife® offers excellent solutions for deploying and managing multiple apps that can appear together within an "umbrella app" while also being available as independent mobile apps. Through a patented solution, APPCityLife provides elegant, easy to manage solutions for companies and communities wanting to deploy multiple apps as well as a gaming platform where civic organizations can launch challenges where users earn points and real rewards. A self-serve mobile couponing portal is currently under development and should be available mid-2014.... read the full post.
Tags: dealstreamsummit, opendata
Energy Department Announces Apps for Vehicles Challenge Winners
energy.gov
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: WASHINGTON – As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to expand access to data and reduce fuel costs for consumers, the Energy Department today announced the winners of the Apps for Vehicles Challenge. The competition asked app developers and entrepreneurs to demonstrate how the open data available on most vehicles can be used to improve vehicle safety, fuel efficiency and comfort. The Department awarded New York City-based Dash the Judges’ Prize and MyCarma, headquartered in Troy, Michigan, the Popular Choice prize. Green Button Gamer, based in Boston, Massachusetts, won the Safety Innovation award and while Augusta, Georgia-based Fuel Economy Coach received the Fuel Efficiency Innovation award.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Apps, Energy Department, Federal Government, opendata
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
Talking about crime: The Chicago Crime site
blog.apps.chicagotribune.com
on 03/21/2013
Excerpt: Welcome to what we hope will be an ongoing series of blog posts by members of the apps team about our work analyzing and visualizing data related to public safety and crime. Crime is an important and popular subject. But interpreting crime data is tricky business, and developing coherent narratives and useful metrics is even harder. Last fall, Heather Billings, David Eads and Joe Germuska built the first version of a comprehensive crime site for the Chicago Tribune called Chicago Crime. Our goal is to provide the best online tools and reporting on crime and public safety for our readers.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, Gov20, Open, opendata
The City of Chicago wants you to fork its data on GitHub - O'Reilly Radar
radar.oreilly.com
on 03/19/2013
Excerpt: GitHub has been gaining new prominence as the use of open source software in government grows. Earlier this month, I included a few thoughts from Chicago’s chief information officer, Brett Goldstein, about the city’s use of GitHub, in a piece exploring GitHub’s role in government. While Goldstein says that Chicago’s open data portal will remain the primary means through which Chicago releases public sector data, publishing open data on GitHub is an experiment that will be interesting to watch, in terms of whether it affects reuse or collaboration around it. In a followup email, Goldstein, who also serves as Chicago’s chief data officer, shared more about why the city is on GitHub and what they’re learning.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, opendata
What do open sensor networks mean for journalism?
javaunmoradi.com
on 03/10/2013
Excerpt: If you’re a data journalist or a community activist and you haven’t heard of Pachube (pronounced “PATCH bay”), you should look them up. They’re trying to answer a question that no environmental group or government agency can answer right now: at any given time, how clean is the air in my neighborhood? Pachube is about to pilot citizen-led air quality sensor networks in New York and Amsterdam. Pachube’s business is to become a data hub for the “internet of things” — internet connected objects and ambient sensors — allowing citizens to share meaningful data and learn from one another. Civic engagement is part of their mission.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Journalism, opendata, Sensors, SXSWi
AP wins Knight grant to build data journalism tool
www.ap.org
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: AP’s “Geomancer” project will receive $28,000 from the Knight Prototype Fund to build an open-source tool to help journalists make sense of data by mashing it up with other data sets about the same geographical locations. The fund helps journalists, developers and tinkerers alike test their ideas. AP is among eight organizations receiving awards, which were announced today ahead of the SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. In 2011, AP also won a $475,000 two-year grant from the Knight News Challenge for “Overview,” a tool for journalists to sort and visualize large data sets.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Data Journalism, Datajournalism, Ddj, Nnip, opendata
Excerpt: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. General Principles. Openness in government strengthens our democracy, promotes the delivery of efficient and effective services to the public, and contributes to economic growth. As one vital benefit of open government, making information resources easy to find, accessible, and usable can fuel entrepreneurship, innovation, and scientific discovery that improves Americans' lives and contributes significantly to job creation. Decades ago, the U. S. Government made both weather data and the Global Positioning System freely available.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, API-Voice, Data, Federal Government, opendata
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
Home
appcitylife.com
on 04/03/2013
Excerpt: From multiple groups within city government to companies with a variety of products, APPCityLife® offers excellent solutions for deploying and managing multiple apps that can appear together within an "umbrella app" while also being available as independent mobile apps. Through a patented solution, APPCityLife provides elegant, easy to manage solutions for companies and communities wanting to deploy multiple apps as well as a gaming platform where civic organizations can launch challenges where users earn points and real rewards. A self-serve mobile couponing portal is currently under development and should be available mid-2014.... read the full post.
Tags: dealstreamsummit, opendata
Energy Department Announces Apps for Vehicles Challenge Winners
energy.gov
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: WASHINGTON – As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to expand access to data and reduce fuel costs for consumers, the Energy Department today announced the winners of the Apps for Vehicles Challenge. The competition asked app developers and entrepreneurs to demonstrate how the open data available on most vehicles can be used to improve vehicle safety, fuel efficiency and comfort. The Department awarded New York City-based Dash the Judges’ Prize and MyCarma, headquartered in Troy, Michigan, the Popular Choice prize. Green Button Gamer, based in Boston, Massachusetts, won the Safety Innovation award and while Augusta, Georgia-based Fuel Economy Coach received the Fuel Efficiency Innovation award.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Apps, Energy Department, Federal Government, opendata
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
Talking about crime: The Chicago Crime site
blog.apps.chicagotribune.com
on 03/21/2013
Excerpt: Welcome to what we hope will be an ongoing series of blog posts by members of the apps team about our work analyzing and visualizing data related to public safety and crime. Crime is an important and popular subject. But interpreting crime data is tricky business, and developing coherent narratives and useful metrics is even harder. Last fall, Heather Billings, David Eads and Joe Germuska built the first version of a comprehensive crime site for the Chicago Tribune called Chicago Crime. Our goal is to provide the best online tools and reporting on crime and public safety for our readers.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, Gov20, Open, opendata
The City of Chicago wants you to fork its data on GitHub - O'Reilly Radar
radar.oreilly.com
on 03/19/2013
Excerpt: GitHub has been gaining new prominence as the use of open source software in government grows. Earlier this month, I included a few thoughts from Chicago’s chief information officer, Brett Goldstein, about the city’s use of GitHub, in a piece exploring GitHub’s role in government. While Goldstein says that Chicago’s open data portal will remain the primary means through which Chicago releases public sector data, publishing open data on GitHub is an experiment that will be interesting to watch, in terms of whether it affects reuse or collaboration around it. In a followup email, Goldstein, who also serves as Chicago’s chief data officer, shared more about why the city is on GitHub and what they’re learning.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, opendata
What do open sensor networks mean for journalism?
javaunmoradi.com
on 03/10/2013
Excerpt: If you’re a data journalist or a community activist and you haven’t heard of Pachube (pronounced “PATCH bay”), you should look them up. They’re trying to answer a question that no environmental group or government agency can answer right now: at any given time, how clean is the air in my neighborhood? Pachube is about to pilot citizen-led air quality sensor networks in New York and Amsterdam. Pachube’s business is to become a data hub for the “internet of things” — internet connected objects and ambient sensors — allowing citizens to share meaningful data and learn from one another. Civic engagement is part of their mission.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Journalism, opendata, Sensors, SXSWi
AP wins Knight grant to build data journalism tool
www.ap.org
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: AP’s “Geomancer” project will receive $28,000 from the Knight Prototype Fund to build an open-source tool to help journalists make sense of data by mashing it up with other data sets about the same geographical locations. The fund helps journalists, developers and tinkerers alike test their ideas. AP is among eight organizations receiving awards, which were announced today ahead of the SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. In 2011, AP also won a $475,000 two-year grant from the Knight News Challenge for “Overview,” a tool for journalists to sort and visualize large data sets.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Data Journalism, Datajournalism, Ddj, Nnip, opendata
Excerpt: From multiple groups within city government to companies with a variety of products, APPCityLife® offers excellent solutions for deploying and managing multiple apps that can appear together within an "umbrella app" while also being available as independent mobile apps. Through a patented solution, APPCityLife provides elegant, easy to manage solutions for companies and communities wanting to deploy multiple apps as well as a gaming platform where civic organizations can launch challenges where users earn points and real rewards. A self-serve mobile couponing portal is currently under development and should be available mid-2014.... read the full post.
Tags: dealstreamsummit, opendata
Energy Department Announces Apps for Vehicles Challenge Winners
energy.gov
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: WASHINGTON – As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to expand access to data and reduce fuel costs for consumers, the Energy Department today announced the winners of the Apps for Vehicles Challenge. The competition asked app developers and entrepreneurs to demonstrate how the open data available on most vehicles can be used to improve vehicle safety, fuel efficiency and comfort. The Department awarded New York City-based Dash the Judges’ Prize and MyCarma, headquartered in Troy, Michigan, the Popular Choice prize. Green Button Gamer, based in Boston, Massachusetts, won the Safety Innovation award and while Augusta, Georgia-based Fuel Economy Coach received the Fuel Efficiency Innovation award.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Apps, Energy Department, Federal Government, opendata
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
Talking about crime: The Chicago Crime site
blog.apps.chicagotribune.com
on 03/21/2013
Excerpt: Welcome to what we hope will be an ongoing series of blog posts by members of the apps team about our work analyzing and visualizing data related to public safety and crime. Crime is an important and popular subject. But interpreting crime data is tricky business, and developing coherent narratives and useful metrics is even harder. Last fall, Heather Billings, David Eads and Joe Germuska built the first version of a comprehensive crime site for the Chicago Tribune called Chicago Crime. Our goal is to provide the best online tools and reporting on crime and public safety for our readers.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, Gov20, Open, opendata
The City of Chicago wants you to fork its data on GitHub - O'Reilly Radar
radar.oreilly.com
on 03/19/2013
Excerpt: GitHub has been gaining new prominence as the use of open source software in government grows. Earlier this month, I included a few thoughts from Chicago’s chief information officer, Brett Goldstein, about the city’s use of GitHub, in a piece exploring GitHub’s role in government. While Goldstein says that Chicago’s open data portal will remain the primary means through which Chicago releases public sector data, publishing open data on GitHub is an experiment that will be interesting to watch, in terms of whether it affects reuse or collaboration around it. In a followup email, Goldstein, who also serves as Chicago’s chief data officer, shared more about why the city is on GitHub and what they’re learning.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, opendata
What do open sensor networks mean for journalism?
javaunmoradi.com
on 03/10/2013
Excerpt: If you’re a data journalist or a community activist and you haven’t heard of Pachube (pronounced “PATCH bay”), you should look them up. They’re trying to answer a question that no environmental group or government agency can answer right now: at any given time, how clean is the air in my neighborhood? Pachube is about to pilot citizen-led air quality sensor networks in New York and Amsterdam. Pachube’s business is to become a data hub for the “internet of things” — internet connected objects and ambient sensors — allowing citizens to share meaningful data and learn from one another. Civic engagement is part of their mission.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Journalism, opendata, Sensors, SXSWi
AP wins Knight grant to build data journalism tool
www.ap.org
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: AP’s “Geomancer” project will receive $28,000 from the Knight Prototype Fund to build an open-source tool to help journalists make sense of data by mashing it up with other data sets about the same geographical locations. The fund helps journalists, developers and tinkerers alike test their ideas. AP is among eight organizations receiving awards, which were announced today ahead of the SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. In 2011, AP also won a $475,000 two-year grant from the Knight News Challenge for “Overview,” a tool for journalists to sort and visualize large data sets.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Data Journalism, Datajournalism, Ddj, Nnip, opendata
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
Talking about crime: The Chicago Crime site
blog.apps.chicagotribune.com
on 03/21/2013
Excerpt: Welcome to what we hope will be an ongoing series of blog posts by members of the apps team about our work analyzing and visualizing data related to public safety and crime. Crime is an important and popular subject. But interpreting crime data is tricky business, and developing coherent narratives and useful metrics is even harder. Last fall, Heather Billings, David Eads and Joe Germuska built the first version of a comprehensive crime site for the Chicago Tribune called Chicago Crime. Our goal is to provide the best online tools and reporting on crime and public safety for our readers.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, Gov20, Open, opendata
The City of Chicago wants you to fork its data on GitHub - O'Reilly Radar
radar.oreilly.com
on 03/19/2013
Excerpt: GitHub has been gaining new prominence as the use of open source software in government grows. Earlier this month, I included a few thoughts from Chicago’s chief information officer, Brett Goldstein, about the city’s use of GitHub, in a piece exploring GitHub’s role in government. While Goldstein says that Chicago’s open data portal will remain the primary means through which Chicago releases public sector data, publishing open data on GitHub is an experiment that will be interesting to watch, in terms of whether it affects reuse or collaboration around it. In a followup email, Goldstein, who also serves as Chicago’s chief data officer, shared more about why the city is on GitHub and what they’re learning.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, opendata
What do open sensor networks mean for journalism?
javaunmoradi.com
on 03/10/2013
Excerpt: If you’re a data journalist or a community activist and you haven’t heard of Pachube (pronounced “PATCH bay”), you should look them up. They’re trying to answer a question that no environmental group or government agency can answer right now: at any given time, how clean is the air in my neighborhood? Pachube is about to pilot citizen-led air quality sensor networks in New York and Amsterdam. Pachube’s business is to become a data hub for the “internet of things” — internet connected objects and ambient sensors — allowing citizens to share meaningful data and learn from one another. Civic engagement is part of their mission.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Journalism, opendata, Sensors, SXSWi
AP wins Knight grant to build data journalism tool
www.ap.org
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: AP’s “Geomancer” project will receive $28,000 from the Knight Prototype Fund to build an open-source tool to help journalists make sense of data by mashing it up with other data sets about the same geographical locations. The fund helps journalists, developers and tinkerers alike test their ideas. AP is among eight organizations receiving awards, which were announced today ahead of the SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. In 2011, AP also won a $475,000 two-year grant from the Knight News Challenge for “Overview,” a tool for journalists to sort and visualize large data sets.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Data Journalism, Datajournalism, Ddj, Nnip, opendata
Excerpt: GitHub has been gaining new prominence as the use of open source software in government grows. Earlier this month, I included a few thoughts from Chicago’s chief information officer, Brett Goldstein, about the city’s use of GitHub, in a piece exploring GitHub’s role in government. While Goldstein says that Chicago’s open data portal will remain the primary means through which Chicago releases public sector data, publishing open data on GitHub is an experiment that will be interesting to watch, in terms of whether it affects reuse or collaboration around it. In a followup email, Goldstein, who also serves as Chicago’s chief data officer, shared more about why the city is on GitHub and what they’re learning.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, opendata
What do open sensor networks mean for journalism?
javaunmoradi.com
on 03/10/2013
Excerpt: If you’re a data journalist or a community activist and you haven’t heard of Pachube (pronounced “PATCH bay”), you should look them up. They’re trying to answer a question that no environmental group or government agency can answer right now: at any given time, how clean is the air in my neighborhood? Pachube is about to pilot citizen-led air quality sensor networks in New York and Amsterdam. Pachube’s business is to become a data hub for the “internet of things” — internet connected objects and ambient sensors — allowing citizens to share meaningful data and learn from one another. Civic engagement is part of their mission.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Journalism, opendata, Sensors, SXSWi
AP wins Knight grant to build data journalism tool
www.ap.org
on 03/09/2013
Excerpt: AP’s “Geomancer” project will receive $28,000 from the Knight Prototype Fund to build an open-source tool to help journalists make sense of data by mashing it up with other data sets about the same geographical locations. The fund helps journalists, developers and tinkerers alike test their ideas. AP is among eight organizations receiving awards, which were announced today ahead of the SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. In 2011, AP also won a $475,000 two-year grant from the Knight News Challenge for “Overview,” a tool for journalists to sort and visualize large data sets.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Data Journalism, Datajournalism, Ddj, Nnip, opendata
Excerpt: AP’s “Geomancer” project will receive $28,000 from the Knight Prototype Fund to build an open-source tool to help journalists make sense of data by mashing it up with other data sets about the same geographical locations. The fund helps journalists, developers and tinkerers alike test their ideas. AP is among eight organizations receiving awards, which were announced today ahead of the SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas. In 2011, AP also won a $475,000 two-year grant from the Knight News Challenge for “Overview,” a tool for journalists to sort and visualize large data sets.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Data, Data Journalism, Datajournalism, Ddj, Nnip, opendata
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