A number of governments have begun to initiate open data and open government strategies. With more governments moving in this direction a growing number of public servants are beginning to understand the issues, obstacles, challenges and opportunities surrounding open data and open government. Indeed, these challenges are why many of these public servants frequent this [...]
Entries tagged as “open government”
Are you a Public Servant? What are your Open Data Challenges?
Creating effective open government portals
In the past few years a number of governments have launched open data portals. These sites, like www.data.gov or data.vancouver.ca share data – in machine readable formats (e.g. that you can play with on your computer) that government agencies collect. Increasingly, people approach me and ask: what makes for a good open data portal? Great [...]
Interview on Open Source, Open Gov & Open Data withe CSEDEV
The other week – in the midst of boarding a plane(!) – I did an interview with the CSEDEV on some thoughts around open data, open government and open source. The kind people at CSEDEV have written up the interview in a kind of paraphrased way and published it as three short blog posts here, [...]
How Science Is Rediscovering “Open” And What It Means For Government
Pretty much everybody in government should read this fantastic New York Times article Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s. On one hand the article is a window into what has gone wrong with science – about how all to frequently a process that used to be competitive but open, and problem focused has [...]
Canada’s emerging opendata mashups (plus some ideas)
Over at IT World Canada, Jennifer Kavur has put together a list of 25 sites and apps for Open Government. What’s fantastic about this list is it demonstrates to government officials and politicians that there is a desire, here in Canada, to take government data and do interesting things with it. Whether driven by developers [...]
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