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 [...]

Mozilla Labs and the Metrics Team, together with the growing Mozilla Research initiative, are hosting a Open Data Visualization Competition based on Test Pilot data, from Nov. 17th to Dec. 17th. For this competition we’d like to explore creative visual answers to the question: “How do people use Firefox?” For example, visualizations that investigate general [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One year ago, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order directing the city’s departments to make their data public. Yesterday, the city’s board of supervisors turned that order into law. As far as we could establish, this is the first time any city in the U.S. has implemented an open data law. But given that other jurisdictions often follow San Francisco’s lead in this space, it’s likely not the last.

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!

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 [...]

Data.gov.uk has become one of the finest national open data initiatives in the world – it now has more data than the mighty data.gov in the US, with 4,223 datasets, compared to 2,876 over the Atlantic. It’s not perfect – far too many links take you to front pages on other sites, rather than 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 [...]

Website is under construction. Rotterdam Open Data is in opstartfase en totdat het consortium resultaten publiceert,  wordt op deze site nieuws over open data (projecten) geplaatst. Rotterdam Open Data is in launch phase and until the consortium has results, this site publishes news on open data. Роттердам Open Data в фазе запуска и до консорциум [...]

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Although the initial launch of Data.gov provides a limited portion of the rich variety of Federal datasets presently available, we invite you to actively participate in shaping the future of Data.gov [...]

Advised by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt and others, government is opening up data for reuse. This site seeks to give a way into the wealth of government data and is under constant development. We want to work with you to make it better. We’re very aware that there are more people like [...]

The UK government has announced plans to open up its data for the first time, offering a wealth of new information and news leads for national and local journalists. In a letter from David Cameron to all government departments, the Prime Minister set out a series of datasets and deadlines for their release, including new [...]

The City of Edmonton Open Data catalogue increases the accessibility of public data managed by the City. As part of an initiative to improve the accessibility, transparency, and accountability of City government, this catalogue provides access to City managed data sets in machine-readable formats. Datasets can be filtered by date, keyword or category using the [...]

ACM (USACM) Recommendations on Open Government Computing and networking technology has made it easier than ever before for organizations and individuals to share, analyze and understand large bodies of information. Government agencies and legislators have long recognized the value of the Internet, having helped to create it, and share a strong commitment to providing for [...]

Mayor Newsom Announces New Open Data Legislation To Improve Government Transparency And Accountability Through Technology First APPNation Conference highlights San Francisco as center of fast-growing app economy 9/13/2010- Mayor Gavin Newsom today joined regional and national app developers at the inaugural APPNation Conference to announce new open data legislation. The new “OpenGov” legislation aims to [...]