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Topp is a catalyst. We empower civil society throgh software, media and smart urban policy. Areas of focus: open source for government, tools for civil empowerment, transportation reform
US non-partisan non-profit using the revolutionary power of the Internet to make information about Congress and the federal government more meaningfully accessible to citizens
Software for civic life
Runs most of the UK's best known democracy websites.
Citizens for Open Access to Civic Information and Data, a group of citizens which believes all levels of government should make civic information and data accessible at no cost in open formats to their citizens.
Australian Government Task Force on Gov 2.0
Investigating the social and economic gains that be achieved from better use of the data that government holds, as well as setting out how much further the government has to go to capitalise on these.
Founded in 200, OKFN is a not-for-profit organization promoting open knowledge: that's any kind of information -- sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata-- that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed.
Canadian non-profit promoting online tools for government transparency.
Vancover open data group. Organizes code-fests, often hosted at city Archives.
Open data discussion group for the city of Toronto.
Open data discussion group for the city of Ottawa.
Our goal is to utilize technology to transform Colorado government at all levels (state, county, and city) to be more transparent, accountable, and accessible. We are comprised of both public and private sector professionals.
We are like a think tank, educational resource, and open source technology community all rolled into one.
Opengov.se is an initiative to highlight available public datasets in Sweden. It contains a commentable catalog of government datasets, their formats and usage restrictions.
We promote local online civic engagement everywhere and host the online town hall model that works.
This workspace is for open government practitioners at the federal, state, and local levels to share questions and effective practices about the Open Government Directive (OGD). Knowledge about the OGD is spread out across the Web; the purpose of this site is to serve as a useful directory to those resources.
A ChangeCamp event is a creative face-to-face gathering that is citizen-led, non-partisan and social web enabled. This unconference asks participants to "Re-Imagine government and citizenship in the age of participation." Open data topics are often discussed at these events.
German Open Government Data initiative.
The CityCamp Exchange launched with the first CityCamp, a dynamic unconference covering local Gov 2.0, transparency, participation, open source and and more in January 2010.
First discovered via: E-Democracy.org
Original working group of 30 open government advocates who developed a set of principles of open government data. This group maintains a Google list and wiki.
Giving an European overview of public government data, existing mash-ups and policy initiatives.
First discovered via: Ontario Public Service Web
Improving access to government through better use of the Web.
First discovered via: E-Democracy.org
Data Drip is a collective conversation about data, data policy, and research on media, information, and communications policy.
