This (long) post is in response to the blog post by Tom Slee, titled “Why the Open Data Movement is a Joke.” Every once in a while, an article that dismisses Open Data as irrelevant, a joke, or a pipe dream catches our imagination and compels us to chime in, even though thoughtful people we [...]
Continue Reading →Source: FinChannel | Author: Anonymous | Date: April 7, 2012 “The government has secured an additional US$55.1 million to scale up digital inclusion, content development, and e-government and shared services. According to the World Bank,the new funding will increase financing under the Kenya Transparency and Communications Infrastructure Project to US$169.5 million.” View Article > >
Continue Reading →Source: Times Union | Author: Anonymous | Date: April 2, 2012 “The City of San Francisco, in partnership with Socrata, will present the San Francisco Open Data Cloud and executives from the National Conference on Citizenship will launch their Civic Data Challenge onstage at the Data 2.0 Summit.” View Article > >
Continue Reading →Source: Government Technology | Author: Sarah Rich | Date: March 26, 2012 “I think we all know that many of the issues facing government are cross-departmental, and historically, we might not have been very good at doing that. Things would have stayed within siloes rather than a collaboration — that’s one of the pieces we’re [...]
Continue Reading →Cloud Of Government Data Grows Over Chicago Source: Information Week | Author: Elizabeth Montanalbo | Date: March 26, 2012 “With the help of cloud service provider Socrata, the state of Illinois, the city of Chicago, and Cook County have developed and launched the Metro Chicago Data Convergence Cloud as part of a transparency effort connecting data [...]
Continue Reading →Source: White House Blog | Author: Matt Compton | Date: March 15, 2012 “Last week, right before we launched Ethics.gov — which brings data from across the federal government to one place where it can all be searched — Chris Vein, the Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer, sat down to talk about how the [...]
Continue Reading →Source: TechCrunch | Author: Rip Empson | Date: March 9, 2012 “Today, Mayor Lee unveiled data.SFgov.org, a cloud-based open data site and the successor/replacement to DataSF.org. The city is adopting cloud services, “social citizen interfaces,” and APIs to power its new open data site, all in an effort to provide a more robust, technologically sound [...]
Continue Reading →Source: National Public Radio | Author: Susan Arbetter | Date: March 8, 2012 “So just as your listeners can upload their music into the cloud, New York State can begin to upload their datasets into the cloud and allow their citizens to retrieve it and analyze it in a way that makes sense to them.” [...]
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