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.

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 [...]

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 – [...]

Welkom op www.ruimtelijkeplannen.nl Deze website www.ruimtelijkeplannen.nl ontsluit ruimtelijke plannen, zoals bestemmingsplannen, structuurvisies en algemene regels die afkomstig zijn van gemeenten, provincies en het rijk. Op deze website zullen op termijn alle ruimtelijke ordeningsplannen beschikbaar komen voor iedereen. Vanaf 1 januari 2010 zijn de digitale verplichtingen van de Wet ruimtelijke ordening in werking getreden. Vanaf deze [...]

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!

; 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 [...]

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 [...]

Local infotech company rtraction has opened up the city of London’s food inspection data on a (beta) site called http://www.eatsure.ca. The London-Middlesex Health Unit made their inspection results public in February but the site is less than user-friendly. While it’s easy to find specific restaurants and view their inspection results, when you click on the [...]

What are mySociety’s goals? mySociety has two missions. The first is to be a charitable project which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. The second is to teach the public and voluntary sectors, through demonstration, how to use the internet most efficiently to improve [...]

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 [...]