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The Three Laws of Open Government Data
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| Yesterday, at the Right To Know Week panel discussion -
| Conference for Parliamentarians: Transparency in the
| Digital Era - organized by the Office of the Information
| Commissioner I shared three laws for Open Government Data
| that I'd devised on the flight from Vancouver.
|
| The Three Laws of Open Government Data:
|
| 1. If it canât be spidered or indexed, it doesnât
| exist
| 2. If it isnât available in open and machine
| readable format, it canât engage
| 3. If a legal framework doesnât allow it to be
| repurposed, it doesnât empower
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http://eaves.ca/2009/09/30/three-law-of-open-government-data/
Calling Open Data Developers: We need your help
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| From today we are inviting developers to show government
| how to get the future public data site right - how to find
| and use public sector information.
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http://blogs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/digitalengagement/post/2009/09/30/Calling-Open-Data-Developers-We-need-your-help.aspx
FR: 'Governments should make their public data available on-line'
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| Governments should make their public data available on-line
| to all, Jean-Louis Missika, deputy mayor of Paris said on
| Thursday. Such data could be used to create real time
| services and geo-location services.
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http://www.osor.eu/news/fr-governments-should-make-their-public-data-available-on-line
Recent:
Show us the data now damnit! Excuses are running out.
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| A very interesting paper from Caroline Savage
| and Andrew Vickers was published in PLoS ONE
| last week detailing an empirical study of data sharing
| of PLoS journal authors. The results themselves, that
| one out ten corresponding authors provided data, are not
| particularly surprising, mirroring as they do previous
| studies, both formal [pdf] and informal (also from Vickers, I
| assume this is a different data set), of data sharing.
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http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2009/09/21/show-us-the-data-now-damnit-excuses-are-running-out/
Open Source Digital Voting Foundation
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| One of the signal failures of digital technology in
| recent years has been e-voting. Practically every high-
| profile attempt to switch from quaint analogue
| technologies to swish new digital ones has proved a
| complete and utter disaster. But taking a closer look at
| these failures it becomes evident that the problem is
| not so much e-voting itself, as the toxic combination of
| e-voting with black-box software.
|
| The problem is quite simple. If you can't see what the
| software is doing by looking at the code, you can't
| possible trust it. And e-voting without trust is about
| as useful as the proverbial chocolate teapot.
|
| The solution is equally obvious: mandate open source
| solutions so that the code can be checked before use.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2537&blogid=14
New EU website goes live
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| The European Commission will today (21 September) launch a
| revamped version of its Europa website. After two years of
| analysis and review, the EU executive hopes its new central
| web portal will make for a simpler, more organised
| experience for EU citizens.
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http://www.euractiv.com/en/pa/new-eu-website-goes-live/article-185604
Ideas sought for open government
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| A DIY guide to becoming an MP and a database of the connections between the
| powerful could soon be created online.
|
| The two ideas are among those being considered by MySociety - a charitable
| group that helps construct civic tools.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8194859.stm
Transparency against malpractic
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| As a result of my new enthusiasm to 'get out more' I found myself listening
| to a detailed and balanced 'non-advocacy' presentation from a respected OSS
| Watch staffer.
|
| He explained patiently how open source licencing worked and how it differed
| from proprietary licences. But what he did say whilst looking for an everyday
| resonance to make his points accessible to a non-geek audience, and which
| really sharpened every-one's attention, was that proprietary software was
| built on secret code whereas open source software had transparent code.
|
| Proprietary software IS composed of secret code. You can't read it, you don't
| know what it does (other than what you can see it do), you don't know how it
| does it and you can't change it.
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/secret-code-and-the-damage-it-does-to-our-society.html
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