30/03/2010

The Open Knowledge Foundation and Access Info are currently seeking information on open government data initiatives around the world, as part of a scoping paper supported by the Open Society Institute. It includes citizen-driven initiatives, official government polices and projects, mash up competitions, data sources and innovative reuses of open government data.

These organizations are interested in looking at how Freedom of Information advocates and open government data advocates can share experience and expertise more effectively.

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30/03/2010

The Indian produced GIS Development magazine has published the January 2010 edition of the magazine, which carries a wide range of articles from Chief Executive Officers across the world about their vision of the future.

One of the articles published includes and interview with Vanessa Lawrence Director General and Chief Executive of the Ordnance Survey title: NMAs should Meet Customer Needs. The article from Ed Parsons Geospatial Technologist at Google titled The creative destruction of GIS? refers to the European Union public sector information re-use Directive and the role of raising awareness and cites the UK Guardian newspaper Free Our Data campaign.

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29/03/2010

What happens when local governments open make their data available for re-use? Often, the results are very positive for both citizens and the local governments. Innovative projects and initiatives emerge when local governments release their data for re-use. The winners are the citizens and local governments.

Frankfurt-Gestalten.de (or ‘Create Frankfurt’ in English) is such an innovative project. It connects citizens with political decisions affecting what happens on their door step and in their neighbourhoods. Frankfurt-Gestalten is a facilitating project making it possible for citizens to learn about as well as respond to political decisions affecting their day-to-day lives.

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08/03/2010

The French site e-democratie, driven by LiberTIC for e-governance and promote re-use of government data, released few dates ago an interesting dynamic presentation on the major goals and objectives of the UE Infrastructure for Spatial Information Directive (INSPIRE)

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08/03/2010

Governments around the world are opening up their data vaults. You now have tens of sites around the world providing you access, but how do you find them? Well, this is now the place.

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