Bridgie is de eerste Rotterdam Open Data applicatie, gerealiseerd door 1^e jaars informatica studenten. Het is een applicatie voor het mobiele Android platform dat met open data gegevens van de Gemeente Rotterdam, afdeling Verkeer en Vervoer, de actuele status van een aantal bruggen in Rotterdam laat zien en de gebruiker op basis van historische informatie voorspelt hoe snel de brug open zal gaan… Lees meer

Rotterdam Open Data Rotterdam Open Data is een initiatief van de Hogeschool Rotterdam, bedrijven uit de Rotterdamse creatieve industrie en de gemeente Rotterdam. Rotterdam Open Data staat voor het toegankelijk en inzichtelijk maken van informatie van, over en voor de stad Rotterdam. De overheid en dus ook de gemeente Rotterdam heeft veel informatie, deze informatie [...]

Rotterdam Open Data Rotterdam Open Data is een initiatief waarin Hogeschool Rotterdam, Rotterdamse bedrijven en de Gemeente Rotterdam gezamenlijk gestalte gaan geven aan het toegankelijk en inzichtelijk maken van informatie van, over en voor de stad Rotterdam. Omdat we geloven dat dit bijdraagt aan de vrijheid van Rotterdammers om informatie te krijgen om keuzen te maken, omdat het de verbondenheid die Rotterdammers met [...]

Open data hackathon is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. Applications like these: Represent Me Find out what your representative is up to. representme.ca Stumble Safely [...]

Recently websites lacunched based on the Open Data from Trafford Council including the Trafford Open Data Maps site and the Trafford Supplier Spend site. Trafford  then released the data of the Council Tax bands each of the 90,000+ properties in Trafford and I had to map that, it’s such juicy data! more

Manchester City Council is the latest local authority to publish open data on its web site. The information, including locations of libraries, recycling sites, banks and open spaces, is available in a range of file formats. Offered under an Open Government Licence, Manchester’s data has a range of applications – for example KML file data [...]

Mayor Newsom Signs Innovative Open Data Legislation New Ordinance Promotes Accountability & Transparency, Fosters Application Development by Private Sector 11/18/10- Mayor Gavin Newsom today signed a first-of-its-kind open data law requiring San Francisco’s City departments and agencies to post certain types of data sets to a publicly accessible portal at www.DataSF.org , codifying and cementing [...]

November 1st, 2010 The following guest post is from David Eaves who is the founder of datadotgc.ca and a member of the OKF’s Working Group on Open Government Data. The post originally appeared on eaves.ca. Let’s do it. Last summer, I met Pedro Markun and Daniela Silva at the Mozilla Summit. During the conversation – [...]

The Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) is taking place in Portland, Oregon, and I am watching as much as I can via the live feed.  During the opening session one of the things that struck me was a comment that is becoming more commonplace.  A comment by one of the CIOs that they were surprised that [...]

Over dit project: Dit project over open data was uitgevoerd door James Burke en Ton Zijlstra voor Ministerie Binnenlandse Zaken. Voor belangstellenden uit de maatschappij om een indruk te krijgen van de huidige stand van zaken t.a.v. open data bij de overheid, en om inzicht te krijgen in de vragen waarvoor de overheid zich gesteld [...]

About City-Go-Round City-Go-Round helps you find useful transit applications (apps) near you. City-Go-Round also encourages public transit agencies to open their data to software developers. What is City-Go-Round’s mission? Is this just for public transit apps? What is open data and why does open data matter? How do you know which transit agencies provide open [...]

City explores sharing data TECHIES: The plan could tap citizen ingenuityLondoners may get cash for telling city hall a better way to use the  data bureaucrats collect at taxpayer expense. City officials will recommend a plan later this year to engage the  ingenuity of citizens and the private sector by sharing with them data  they [...]

The Community Health Data Initiative is a major new public-private  effort that aims to help Americans understand health and health care  performance in their communities — and to help spark and facilitate  action to improve performance. The fundamental approach being  taken by the initiative is to catalyze the advent of a network of  community health [...]

There’s been some inspiring action on open data lately in Canada, at both the federal and municipal levels. I’ve been under the weather lately, so haven’t been able to cover these events to the extent they deserve, but here’s a quick update: The OpenDataOttawa hackfest last Saturday looks like it was a great success. The [...]

Open data often refers to government information which has been made available for free for anyone to use. However, also companies, other organizations and citizens publish open data. The openness of data means in practice that data has been made as easy as possible for anyone to use. The level of openness can vary in [...]

Nottingham University is giving masterclasses around the UK for those who want to do something with the government data has become available since the launch of data.gov.uk. Nottingham, 13 October 2010 From the announcement (via Guardian data blog): “The past few months have seen a number of high profile announcements on the release of central [...]

The past few months have seen a number of high profile announcements on the release of central and local government data for free. The Prime Minister launched the data.gov.uk portal to ‘open up data and promote transparency’ and the London Mayor announced the London Data Store to ‘give Londoners the change to find out more [...]

Poem by Chris McDowall: Open is better than closed. Transparent is better than opaque. Simple is better than complex. Accessible is better than inaccessible. Sharing is better than hoarding. Linked is more useful than isolated. Fine grained is preferable to aggregated. (Although there are legitimate privacy and security limitations.) Optimise for machine readability — they [...]

Source: Open Data Berlin The City of Berlin is polling its citizens about the themes they should release PSI as open data for first. Preliminary results (the poll itself will run until the end of October) have now been published. Berlin, 12 October 2010 At the end of September the city of Berlin opened up [...]

ESI-Tecnalia is taking part in the European DIY Smart Experiences (DiYSE) project, based on ICTs and focused on transforming the everyday life of people through the control of their environment, both in their own homes and outside. In total 40 international organisations are participating in the project, amongst which are Philips, Thales and Alcatel-Lucent, as [...]