Bridgie is de eerste Rotterdam Open Data applicatie, gerealiseerd door 1e 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 [...]
A new website allows users to download public government information, which they can both consult and incorporate when creating services
The Government of Catalonia launched the Dades Obertes gencat website, which will allow users to access a wide variety of public information provided by the Government of Catalonia. This new web portal is part of the Government of Catalonia’s Open Data Project, an initiative which concretizes the Government’s commitment to open government and transparent administration.
The first dataset is our work on classifying charities. We undertook this piece of work about 2 years ago, in order to better understand the nature of the voluntary sector. While we had some classification information (such as the classification system used by the Charity Commission), the nature of these meant that producing stats that [...]
Paul Bradshaw has a good column at Poynter about how the increasing availability of data will force journalists and news organizations to change: Data journalism takes in a huge range of disciplines, from Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR) and programming, to visualisation and statistics. If you are a journalist with a strength in one of those [...]
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 [...]
The link to spreadsheet contains 3 sheets giving information about open government data catalogues from around the world: an international list an international list with LAT/LON coordinates a list of which EU member states do and don’t have an official national catalogue You can click on the tabs at the bottom of the embedded document [...]
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 [...]
May 05, 2010 “Participation, Collaboration and Transformation” to be the expo’s theme. The Gov 2.0 Expo, the government and technology conference co-produced by UBM TechWeb and O’Reilly Media, will bring key figures of The White House, NASA, The Departments of Defense and Health and Human Services, and the Central Intelligence Agency together to discuss the [...]
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 [...]
Pic and Mix aims to increase public access to Kent-related datasets including those generated by Kent County Council (KCC). For the purposes of the pilot, we have brought together a sample of the most useful information. Where possible, it’s been provided in a format that allows it to be ‘mashed’ and customised. Please help us shape this initiative by suggesting additional data and ways in which we can improve this site. And if you do anything clever with the data, we’d like you to share that with us too!
In the age of the Internet, government is transparent only when public information is available online. The Public Online Information Act (POIA) is legislation, introduced by Rep. Steve Israel, that embraces a new formula for transparency: public equals online. No longer will antiquated government disclosure practices bury public information in out-of-the-way offices and in outmoded [...]
; This website is designed to provide the public with information regarding inspections of food premises located in the City of London and County of Middlesex. Please be advised that the results of all inspections posted on this website describe what the Public Health Inspector observed at the time of the inspection. This website is [...]
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 [...]
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