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
Hack D.C.: Hackers Put Open Data to Use to Help Improve Local Government:
dcist.com
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: In an auditorium at the World Bank on a Saturday in late February, groups of computer hackers huddled over their computers, intently pouring through thousands of lines of code and massive amounts of raw data. No, they weren't launching a denial of service attack against a government agency or engaging in industrial espionage, but rather putting their collective coding abilities to use for the greater good as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. At similar events across the globe, developers and coders—known more simply, though not pejoratively, as "hackers"—identified problems and used their computer know-how and stacks of open data to devise clever solutions.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Civic, Data, Gov20, Hackathon, Hacking, ODHD13, opendata, opengov
The City of Chicago is on Github - The Changelog
thechangelog.com
on 03/04/2013
Excerpt: Anyone can now change the data when new bike paths are built, when roads are under construction, and new buildings are erected. When you want to improve our data, just fork it. Users are encouraged to improve data accuracy, combine it with other data sources, or download and use it for analysis or a new app. Users have the right to download, modify, or use it for any purpose, including commercialization. This means that projects like OpenStreetMaps will be able to add over 2GBs of Chicago data to their site. This also means that companies and Chicago startups who would like to leverage this data are able to as part of daily business.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Chicago, opendata, opengov, OpenSource
MediaShift Idea Lab . How Newsrooms Should Best Handle Public Data
www.pbs.org
on 02/27/2013
Excerpt: E-mail Your e-mail address @Your friend's e-mail address: @A message in addition to the URL: The information you supply will only be used to send this email. Idea Lab is a group blog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age. Each Idea Lab blogger is a winner of the Knight News Challenge grant to reshape community news. This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. Over the past few months something unusual has happened to public data projects: They've made national headlines.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Gov20, Hacker Storytelling, opendata, opengov
US government to release open data using OKF’s CKAN platform
blog.okfn.org
on 02/01/2013
Excerpt: You may have seen hints of it before, but the US government data portal, data. gov, has just announced officially that its next iteration – “data. gov 2. 0″ – will incorporate CKAN, the open-source data management system whose development is led and co-ordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The OKF itself is one of the organisations helping to implement the upgrade. Like all governments, the US collects vast amounts of data in the course of its work. Because of its commitment to Open Data tens of thousands of datasets are openly published through data. gov. The new-look data. gov will be a major enhancement, and will for the first time bring together geospatial data with other kinds of data in one place.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, CKAN, Data, opengov
Open Government Data: The Book by Joshua Tauberer
opengovdata.io
on 06/04/2012
Excerpt: This book is the culmination of several years of thinking about the principles behind the open government data movement in the United States. In the pages within, I frame the movement as the application of Big Data to civics.... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government, opendata, opengov
Excerpt: In an auditorium at the World Bank on a Saturday in late February, groups of computer hackers huddled over their computers, intently pouring through thousands of lines of code and massive amounts of raw data. No, they weren't launching a denial of service attack against a government agency or engaging in industrial espionage, but rather putting their collective coding abilities to use for the greater good as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. At similar events across the globe, developers and coders—known more simply, though not pejoratively, as "hackers"—identified problems and used their computer know-how and stacks of open data to devise clever solutions.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Civic, Data, Gov20, Hackathon, Hacking, ODHD13, opendata, opengov
The City of Chicago is on Github - The Changelog
thechangelog.com
on 03/04/2013
Excerpt: Anyone can now change the data when new bike paths are built, when roads are under construction, and new buildings are erected. When you want to improve our data, just fork it. Users are encouraged to improve data accuracy, combine it with other data sources, or download and use it for analysis or a new app. Users have the right to download, modify, or use it for any purpose, including commercialization. This means that projects like OpenStreetMaps will be able to add over 2GBs of Chicago data to their site. This also means that companies and Chicago startups who would like to leverage this data are able to as part of daily business.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Voice, Chicago, opendata, opengov, OpenSource
MediaShift Idea Lab . How Newsrooms Should Best Handle Public Data
www.pbs.org
on 02/27/2013
Excerpt: E-mail Your e-mail address @Your friend's e-mail address: @A message in addition to the URL: The information you supply will only be used to send this email. Idea Lab is a group blog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age. Each Idea Lab blogger is a winner of the Knight News Challenge grant to reshape community news. This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. Over the past few months something unusual has happened to public data projects: They've made national headlines.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Gov20, Hacker Storytelling, opendata, opengov
US government to release open data using OKF’s CKAN platform
blog.okfn.org
on 02/01/2013
Excerpt: You may have seen hints of it before, but the US government data portal, data. gov, has just announced officially that its next iteration – “data. gov 2. 0″ – will incorporate CKAN, the open-source data management system whose development is led and co-ordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The OKF itself is one of the organisations helping to implement the upgrade. Like all governments, the US collects vast amounts of data in the course of its work. Because of its commitment to Open Data tens of thousands of datasets are openly published through data. gov. The new-look data. gov will be a major enhancement, and will for the first time bring together geospatial data with other kinds of data in one place.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, CKAN, Data, opengov
Open Government Data: The Book by Joshua Tauberer
opengovdata.io
on 06/04/2012
Excerpt: This book is the culmination of several years of thinking about the principles behind the open government data movement in the United States. In the pages within, I frame the movement as the application of Big Data to civics.... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government, opendata, opengov
Excerpt: E-mail Your e-mail address @Your friend's e-mail address: @A message in addition to the URL: The information you supply will only be used to send this email. Idea Lab is a group blog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age. Each Idea Lab blogger is a winner of the Knight News Challenge grant to reshape community news. This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. Over the past few months something unusual has happened to public data projects: They've made national headlines.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Gov20, Hacker Storytelling, opendata, opengov
US government to release open data using OKF’s CKAN platform
blog.okfn.org
on 02/01/2013
Excerpt: You may have seen hints of it before, but the US government data portal, data. gov, has just announced officially that its next iteration – “data. gov 2. 0″ – will incorporate CKAN, the open-source data management system whose development is led and co-ordinated by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The OKF itself is one of the organisations helping to implement the upgrade. Like all governments, the US collects vast amounts of data in the course of its work. Because of its commitment to Open Data tens of thousands of datasets are openly published through data. gov. The new-look data. gov will be a major enhancement, and will for the first time bring together geospatial data with other kinds of data in one place.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, CKAN, Data, opengov
Open Government Data: The Book by Joshua Tauberer
opengovdata.io
on 06/04/2012
Excerpt: This book is the culmination of several years of thinking about the principles behind the open government data movement in the United States. In the pages within, I frame the movement as the application of Big Data to civics.... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government, opendata, opengov
Excerpt: This book is the culmination of several years of thinking about the principles behind the open government data movement in the United States. In the pages within, I frame the movement as the application of Big Data to civics.... read the full post.
Tags: Federal Government, opendata, opengov
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