30/12/09

Este proyecto del Reino Unido consiste en una página web que permite el acceso a los datos sobre el trabajo que se desarrolla en el Ayuntamiento. La página estructura la información para que pueda ser comparada y reutilizada mediante mash-ups. Además de abrir la API y ofrecer datos exportables para que los programadores puedan republicar información...

30/12/09

The project presentations from last month’s Visualizar seminar have now been posted online. This annual event brought together creative teams from a range of disciplines, with the objective of delivering workable presentations using freely available data resources. The theme for 2009 was Public Data - Data In Public. I was fortunate enough to attend on behalf of the Open Knowledge Foundation: you can...

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30/12/09

The UK Local Government Association (LGA) has published a report titled: Geographic Information Survey 2009, December 2009, 17 pages. The report summarises the results of a survey undertaken during October 2009 with respect to the use of geographic information services within local government within England and Wales...

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21/12/2009

Locus announces panel discussion on how to maintain and develop a vibrant UK information driven economy – Date: 25 January 2010, London...

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21/12/2009

The European Address Infrastructure project (EURADIN) has published newsletter number 3. The newsletter states...

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21/12/2009

The Locus Association has published a press release following recent UK Government PSI policy announcements about opening up access to public information and releasing data sets including Ordnance Survey mapping data

 

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21/12/2009

A one day Open Data Bar Camp was held in Paris on the 12 December 2009 attracting the registration limit of 100 participants.

Under discussion was: “everything you wanted to know about what could be done with public data but were afraid to ask”.

 

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21/12/2009

Every day, governments and government agencies publish more data on the Internet. Sharing this data enables greater transparency; delivers more efficient public services; and encourages greater public and commercial use and re-use of government information. Some governments have even created catalogs or portals (such as data.gov) to make it easy for the public to find and use this data...

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21/12/2009

We’re very pleased to announce the first full release of our Where Does My Money Go? prototype. This is now online at:
http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/prototype/

Tom Watson MP, commented on the new release...

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14/12/2009

Here is the draft Government 2.0 Taskforce report Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0. The Taskforce is seeking your comments and input before finalising the report to go to Government.

Please understand that this is a draft and there will be some proofing issues which...
 

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14/12/2009

This morning UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced plans to open up lots more UK Government data! His speech describes plans to put much more detailed information online under open licenses in 2010...

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14/12/2009

So far its been a good week for open government data (and its only Tuesday)! After yesterday’s announcement from UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, today the US Government’s Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra gave a live webcast from the Whitehouse to...

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03/12/2009

The latest round of Google Maps innovation, with map updates that mirror the crowdsourced data approach of OpenStreetMaps (OSM), as well as the addition of parcels (a typically high-priced data set) has many data providers worried about their livelihood. The larger question here, beyond just Google’s moves, is whether online geospatial data want to be free.

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03/12/2009

The Swedish parliament (Riksdag) has passed a new law to prevent unfair competition between public and private companies. The new rules for anti-competitive public sales activities come into effect 1 January 2010.

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03/12/2009

The Information Society Alliance (EURIM) has issued a press release and one page summary on the management and exploitation of public information. The message is that public information is a strategic asset meriting due care and attention. Recommended guidance points to the need for education...

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03/12/2009

Imagine you're visiting a new city. Or perhaps you live or work there. Either way, you need to get across town - as fast as possible. At a bus stop, wouldn't it be great to know when the next bus will arrive and how long it will take to travel to your destination? Better still: what if you could get a complete route plan, displayed on your mobile phone?

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03/12/2009

The Conference, "Marknaden för återanvändning av rättsinformation - vidareutnyttjande och offentlighetsuttag" (The Market for the Re-use of Legal Information – Re-use and Publicity Aside) was held in Stocklom on the 24th November 2009.
 

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02/12/2009

Existe un reclamo cada vez más amplio en favor de la apertura de los datos públicos, para conseguir más transparencia política y generar beneficios sociales y económicos. Esta información puede ser útil, además, para conseguir sociedades más sostenibles. Pero los datos en bruto no son suficientes, es necesario crear herramientas para convertirlos en información comprensible y significativa...
 

02/12/2009

En los países nórdicos, con una sólida tradición de transparencia, la ciudadanía se enfrenta a la facilidad que supone para cualquier persona consultar los sueldos e impuestos de sus conciudadanos, con la reciente publicación de estos datos en la Red. Mientras tanto en un par de ciudades estadounidenses se ensayan nuevos métodos de análisis de la criminalidad a través de la difusión pública de los delitos...