References on Open Government Data (45)
This report evaluates states’ progress toward “Transparency 2.0” – a new standard of comprehensive, one-stop, one-click budget accountability and accessibility. At least 7 states have become leaders in the drive toward Transparency 2.0, launching easy-to-use, searchable Web sites with a wide range of spending transparency information.
'Government as Platform', Tim O'Reilly's chapter from the book Open Government, made available for mark-up and comment.
Australian federal government statement in support of making public sector information accessible, searchable, and re-usable.
How information is made available online fundamentally controls what can be done with it. Fortunately, an intelligent layperson can understand how structure makes data usable.
The unlocking of government through the release of raw transaction data represents a fundamentally new form of openness that will place governments under an unprecedented level of scrutiny and accountability, while offering the potential to improve public services.
Intriguing slideshare presentation defining Amateur, Rookie, and Professional open data sharers.
This memorandum highlights for agencies policy and legal issues related to the implementation of the Obama Administration’s commitment to increase the use of prizes and challenges as tools for promoting
open government, innovation, and other national priorities.
Part 2 of a series of best practice blog posts from Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy.
First discovered via: Ontario Public Service Web
Ottawa's Open Data Report, presented to the city's IT Sub-Committee, outlining plans for a data catalogue in 2010.
San Francisco Open Data Policy. Includes policy, background, and FAQ.
First discovered via: OpenMuniWiki
Wiki for the OpenCity movement, organized by the Open Planning Project.
This guide has been provided in order to help governments and organizations around the world understand the ins and outs of how we've run Apps for Democracy contests over the past year, and is structured in such a way that you'lll be able to start your own when the time comes.
Google's General Transit Feed specification.
City of Edmonton report on Open Data, including action plan timeline.
Report on open data in government by France Telecom.
Draft Government 2.0 Taskforce report "Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0". Makes recommendations on engaging citizens in the business of government.
This progress report offers the American people a snapshot of the Open Government Initiative's progress to date, highlights of the Administration's new open government policy framework -- the Open Government Directive -- together with a roadmap for what’s to come.
The full economic, cultural and environmental value of information produced or funded by the public sector can be realised through enabling greater access to and reuse of the information. To do this effectively it is necessary to describe and implement a policy framework that supports greater access and reuse among a distributed, online network of information suppliers and users. The objective of this study was to identify materials dealing with policies, principles and practices relating to information access and reuse in Australia and in other key jurisdictions internationally.
The draft New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) framework has been released for discussion and feedback.
NASCIO has published this report as initial guidance and recommendations to help state governments get started with data transparency portals.
This report presents the findings of a Strategy Unit study of leading edge innovations in world-wide public services, which involved interviewing 50 academics, public servants and other experts from around the world.
Government data is being put online to increase accountability, contribute valuable information about the world, and to enable government, the country, and the world to function more efficiently. All of these purposes are served by putting the information on the Web as Linked Data.
Where some Crowns Copyright restrictions are lifted from parliamentary proceedings.
In 2003, the EU adopted the Directive on the re-use of public sector information. It has introduced a common legislative framework regulating how public sector bodies should make their information available for re-use in order to remove barriers such as discriminatory practices, monopoly markets and a lack of transparency. On the 7 May 2009 the Commission published a review of the application of the Public Sector Information Directive encouraging Member States and Public sector Bodies to take proactive measures to promote reuse.
A candy-box of open government essays.
An open, collective knowledge base for the US transparency community, hosted by OpenCongress.
Recognizing that governments throughout the World need assistance and guidance in achieving the promises of electronic government through technology and the Web, this document seeks to define and call forth, but not yet solve, the variety of issues and challenges faced by governments.
Memorandum for the heads of executive departments and agencies
Subject: Transparency and Open Government
The GeoConnections program is a national federally-funded program designed to link location-based information using the power of the Internet. The report is a culmination of months of effort and consultation led by the Data Licensing Guide Working Group, and outlines best practices in licensing frameworks.
In 2008, 30 open government advocates, including Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media and Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org, with the support of the Sunlight Foundation, gathered to develop a set of principles of open government data. The meeting, held in Sebastopol, California, was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy.
Multi-group recommendations, sponsored by Sunlight Foundation (among others) on how the incoming Obama Administration can embrace Web 2.0 tools and the access, accountability and transparency they promise.
Research Paper -- Abstract: If the next Presidential administration really wants to embrace the potential of Internet-enabled government transparency, it should follow a counter-intuitive but ultimately compelling strategy: reduce the federal role in presenting important government information to citizens.
Research Paper: Abstract -- In order to hold government accountable for its actions, citizens must know what those actions are. To that end, they must insist that government act openly and transparently to the greatest extent possible.
The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is an XML-based data format for exchanging public warnings and emergencies between alerting technologies. CAP allows a warning message to be consistently disseminated simultaneously over many warning systems to many applications. CAP increases warning effectiveness and simplifies the task of activating a warning for responsible officials.
First discovered via: OpenMuniWiki
The OMG Standard seeks to promote the free flow of information between government agencies and citizens by establishing a common set of technical standards for organizing and sharing public data.
First discovered via: OpenMuniWiki
In partnership with a group of state elections officials, the Voting Information Project developed a standard format to easily collect and distribute voting information.
First discovered via: OpenMuniWiki
A model open and transparent "Participation 3.0" effort to create an open standard for distributing public meeting notices, agendas, documents, etc. across the Web 2.0 world.
