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Last month Socrata announced that we were commissioning an Open Government Data Benchmark Study to assess the state of the nascent Open Data movement. Via that announcement we also invited participation from advocacy groups who are passionate about this subject. We are honored that we have been joined in conducting this study by the Sunlight [...]
Continue Reading →If you’re a government employee – or a member of the government 2.0 community – you have to be on GovLoop. Socrata and GovLoop have teamed up to bring you relevant public sector data that’s sortable, searchable, filterable, and can be published anywhere on the web. To view the data, sign in and click on [...]
Continue Reading →The Sobering Facts of Hunger in the United States: 1. 35.5 million people—including 12.6 million children—live in households that experience hunger or the risk of hunger. This represents more than one in ten households in the United States (10.9 percent). 2. Research shows that preschool and school-aged children who experience severe hunger have higher levels [...]
Continue Reading →If you didn’t see today’s announcement on the White House blog or on the Huffington Post, the White House has released a list of recent White House visitors. I think Norm Eisen from the White House blog says it best: “Today marks a major milestone in government transparency — and an important lesson in the [...]
Continue Reading →As students and their tax paying parents settle into the return to school, most are in the dark about the unprecedented $100 billion in education funds made available through the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This historic investment, focused on turning around the nation’s 5,000 worst performing schools, is equal to nearly 16 percent [...]
Continue Reading →Data.gov is barely three months old and it is just beginning to take shape. More than 100,000 thousand feeds have been made available to the public with the promise of tens of thousands more in the not too distant future. After all, there are more than 24,000 different federal websites that post data. Is Data.gov [...]
Continue Reading →Post Offices are starting to feel the effects of technology and modern communication. E-mails and online payment options are replacing good old snail mail. According to USPS, up to 1000 Post Office locations will be earmarked for closure in the near future. Check here to see if your Post Office is on the list of [...]
Continue Reading →It’s been all of over the news, and it might run out of funding any second, but Edmunds.com has been kind enough to compile a list of more than 1000 vehicles that qualify for the program. With the Social Data Player, you can sort, filter, and search the data; as well as easily grab the [...]
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