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- David Eaves - Open Data, Baseball and Government
- Paper presented by David Eaves from Centre for the Study of Democracy, at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington DC on Wednesday 26 May 2010.
Added: 28 May 2010
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- Open Government - the State of Play - 2010
- This paper seeks to explain the genesis and evolution of the concept of "open" government within the context of changing forms of government within the web-driven world, a world where emerging web technologies are empowering the citizen as never before, providing access to vast quantities of information which, despite being presented out of context and often in a complex format, is nonetheless available and freely open to use and reuse.
Added: 20 September 2010
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- Review of Recent Studies on PSI Re-use and Related Market Developments
- Governments also have basic commitments that citizens can access public information and national cultural heritage such as paintings, monuments and books, and to ensure social inclusion. New communication tools, such as social networks, interactive Web sites and games may facilitate the diffusion of public sector information by reaching groups of people previously unlikely to directly access PSI or PSI-related services. This literature review looks at PSI market size and impacts following the widely cited estimates in the MEPSIR study (2006). MEPSIR concluded that the PSI re-use market in 2006 for the EU25 plus Norway was worth EUR 27 billion.
Added: 31 October 2011
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- Tim Berners-Lee - Open, Linked Data for a Global Community
- Paper presented by Tim Berners-Lee at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington DC on Wednesday 26 May 2010.
Added: 27 May 2010
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- World Map of Open Government Data Initiatives
- An open map of those public and private Initiatives which provide Open Government Data or running Challenges.
Added: 8 November 2010
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- Open Data and The New Divide
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, May 14, 2012. "Over the last four years open government and open data have been at the forefront of the debate on how governments can become more transparent, participative and efficient. The theory is well known: rather than (or alongside) providing the government's interpretation or packaging of public data, this data should be made available in raw, open format for people to build their own views and applications..."
Added: 16 May 2012;
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- No joke: Open data fuels transparency, civic utility and economic activity
- by Alex Howard, Gov20.Govfresh, May 2, 2012. "... There's little doubt that smart entrepreneurs, big and small, are going to mashup data from the rapidly expanding new sources — social data, geolocation data, mobile data, financial data, transit data, health data, etc — and build new businesses on it or improve their existing services, like Zillow or Google Maps or Consumer Reports or Bloomberg Government. In a time when job creation is critical, using public sector information to create jobs isn't an aim to dismiss lightly, although the terms and conditions under which such activity occurs must be clear to all actors involved, to avoid the creation of new monopolies based upon artificial scarcity..."
Added: 10 May 2012;
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- Why Employees Are The Missing Link for Successful Open Government
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, May 3, 2012. "Open government initiatives are either aimed at providing greater transparency, usually as a reaction to an accusation or perception of excessive secrecy, or at engaging citizens in specific problem solution as well as service delivery. It is probably fair to say that the US federal initiatives are closer to the former, while UK initiatives are closer to the latter..."
Added: 10 May 2012;
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- A Primer on Big Data in State and Local Government
- By Kapil Bakshi. Government Technology, April 30, 2012. "Editor's Note: Kapil Bakshi works for Cisco Public Sector, leading and setting strategic direction of solution spaces like Big Data and cloud computing. Data is a critical asset for state and local government, and it has been for decades. The questions today are what happens when you have too much data, and how do you make sense of it when, according McKinsey Global Institute, data volume is growing 40 percent per year? How can you keep up with that much data? It’s important in today’s digital age to not only store large data sets, but also use the data to make mission-critical decisions. This emerging field of data analytics is being called Big Data..."
Added: 7 May 2012;
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- Why creating openness is a challenge for all governments
- With data being the 'raw material' of the 21st century, it's not just emerging democracies that need to become more transparent, by Jane Dudman. guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 April 2012. "One of the most moving moments at last week's Open Government Partnership conference, where the representatives of over 50 countries gathered to pledge their commitment to open and transparent government, was when Yemeni editor and anti-censorship activist Walid al-Saqaf, said he wanted his 11-year-old daughter to be a journalist – and to be safe..."
Added: 26 April 2012;
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- Open Government Partnership talks tech-led transparency
- Open government ideas shared at global gabfest, By Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor, Posted in Public Sector, The Register, 19 April 2012. "The Open Government Partnership has met in Brasilia, and discussed several technology-enabled openness initiatives. The Partnership has over members and bills itself as “a new multilateral initiative that aims to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and harness new technologies to strengthen governance.” Members create openness Action Plans, elements if which were shared at the meeting..."
Added: 23 April 2012;
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- Open Government Partnership: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- by Andrea Di Maio. Gartner, April 17, 2012. "... The purpose, orientation, urgency of open government varies across different jurisdictions. It is important to preserve such diversity, while making sure that the basic principles stay the same. However the risk is that, in order to find the broadest possible common ground among participants, the debate focuses on the 'how' rather than on the 'why'. Just take a look at the top ten commitments that participating countries claim in their plans. The vast majority is about increasing transparency, very few are about actual service delivery and almost none is about using open government principles for sustainable efficiency..."
Added: 20 April 2012;
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- Where next for the open government partnership?
- Jane Dudman rounds up two days of the Open Government Partnership – from the Hillary Clinton roadshow to questions about how poorer countries will implement transparency plans, by Jane Dudman. Guardian Professional, Thursday 19 April 2012. "Where next for the open government partnership? That was the question hanging in the air over the conference centre in Brasilia on Wednesday evening as the politicians and their entourages packed up and went home after two days of intense discussion about the nature of open and transparent government..."
Added: 20 April 2012;
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- Public sector needs to think big when it comes to data
- The private sector is already harnessing the power of ever growing banks of 'big data' will public services keep up, by Andy Cutler. Guardian Professional, Tuesday 10 April 2012. "Whether you are aware of the "big data" buzzword or not, you'll certainly be aware that the amount of data around us is growing, and growing rapidly. And as it continues to grow, compounded by the internet, social media, cloud computing and mobile devices, it poses both a challenge and an opportunity for the public sector – how to manage, analyse and make use of the ever-increasing amount of the data being generated and how to realise the benefits of doing so..."
Added: 19 April 2012;
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- Some Observations on the Practice of Open Data As Opposed to Its Promise
- by Roland J. Cole - Sagamore Institute for Policy Research, United States. Journal of Community Informatics. Vol 8, No 2 (2012). "This note is a contribution to the continuing debates and analyses about what can and should be done to make public data open. In this note, I share some observations about current practices surrounding public data. In general, these observations lead to the insight that absolutely open public data is and will continue to be rare. Instead, various types of data are apt to be more or less open, and the reasons for the degree of openness may vary from one situation to another, that is by type of data, by country, by type of institution, etc..."
Added: 17 April 2012;
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- The Open Government Partnership – from eight to 54 countries
- What membership of the Open Government Partnership involves, by Jorge Hage. Guardian Professional, Tuesday 10 April 2012. "The Open Government Partnership was officially launched in September 2011 by eight founding governments – Brazil, Indonesia, Norway, South Africa, United Kingdom, Mexico and United States – and nine civil society organisations. Today, as we prepare for the annual meeting of the OGP in Brasilia, the partnership comprises a group of 54 countries and various civil society organisations, as well as interested private sector and international institutions..."
Added: 11 April 2012;
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- Open Government Partnership: steering committee
- Who's who: the OGP steering committee comprises representatives from both governments and civic organisations. Public Leaders Network - Guardian Professional, Wednesday 4 April 2012. Lists the Government representatives and the Representatives from civil society.
Added: 5 April 2012;
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- Open Government Partnership: an introduction
- Global open partnership transcends political boundaries in encouraging transparent, effective government, by Maria Otero and Jorge Hage. Guardian Professional, Tuesday 3 April 2012. "The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a global effort to make governments better. It is a multilateral initiative that aims to secure concrete commitments from governments to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption and create safer communities. By finding new ways to engage with citizens, including using the latest technologies, governments can tap their expertise to make better decisions..."
Added: 4 April 2012;
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- Brasilia 2012: a new era of open government
- A look ahead to the inaugural Open Government Partnership annual meeting in Brasilia, by Maria Otero and Jorge Hage. Guardian Professional, Tuesday 3 April 2012. "Delegates from 53 countries will come together in Brasilia on 17 and 18 April for the Open Government Partnership's (OGP) 2012 annual meeting. This will establish OGP as an international movement that uses the latest tools and technologies to help governments solve age-old problems and deliver tangible results for citizens. It is also an opportunity to bring new countries into this enthusiastic community of reformers, where governments and civil society organisations are harnessing the power of openness to more effectively fight corruption, improve services and create safer communities together..."
Added: 4 April 2012;
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- Australia reserves Open Government decision
- By John Hilvert. IT News, March 28, 2012. "Tight-lipped after reportedly declining membership. The Attorney-General's office has refused to elaborate on a report that Australia has decided against joining an international effort to make governments more transparent and accountable..."
Added: 29 March 2012;
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This category last updated: 16 May 2012
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