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Open-source sets trend for broader transparency
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| Moody jokingly told the LCA2010 audience that
| the genome book is essentially the same text
| as Rebel Code, his 2002 book on Linux and the
| open source movement, with just a few terms
| changed.
|
| There is, he suggests, a more direct
| connection between the two endeavours. A
| public programme to piece together into a
| complete genome the fragmentary sequences of
| genetic materiel that came out of analysis in
| the early years of the decade was competing
| with a parallel programme run by private
| company Celera Genomics, which could have
| patented crucial parts of the discovery.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/development/open-source-sets-trend-for-broader-transparency
Open Data: A Question of (Panton) Principles
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| They form the basis of the newly-formalised
| Panton Principles for open data in science,
| and are followed by the four short principles
| themselves - essentially that there should be
| an explicit statement of what may be done with
| the data, and that ideally that data should
| be in the public domain.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/02/open-data-question-of-panton-principles.html
Victorians To Win $100,000 To App The State
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| Victoriaâs IT innovators will be invited to
| take part in a $100,000 online competition to
| create new applications to be formally
| launched later this month, as mentioned in the
| statement of government intentions released
| this week.
|
| Minister for Information and Communications
| Technology, John Lenders, said the âApp My
| Stateâ competition would give Victorians the
| motivation to turn their creative ideas into
| applications used by other Victorians every
| day.
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http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/premier/app-my-state/9301-victorians-to-win-100000-to-app-the-state.html
How MakerCulture Is Reinventing Politics
http://preview.thetyee.ca/Life/2010/02/12/ReinventingPolitics/
Recent:
Open Access, Intellectual Property, and How Biotechnology Becomes a New Software Science
http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1262
Obama's open-government director opens up
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| On Tuesday morning, the Obama
| administration formally unveiled its Open
| Government directive, an effort aimed at
| weaving the philosophies of openness,
| transparency and participation into the
| DNA of the federal government and its
| agencies.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10411479-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
White House to release new gov't data collections
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| The White House on Tuesday instructed
| every federal agency to publish before the
| end of January at least three collections
| of "high value" government data on the
| Internet that never have been previously
| disclosed, an ambitious order to make the
| administration as transparent as President
| Barack Obama had promised it would be.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gvUu8X07cIy9kxTDNWHi1XHfRtTAD9CFDOV80
MapBox Open Source Toolkit Creates Custom Maps From the Ground Up
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| Reading maps is pretty easy, creating them
| is not. MapBox is an online open source
| toolkit and database of custom tile sets
| that let you build great-looking maps in
| Amazon's cloud.
|
| [...]
|
| Data is plugged into the maps via
| OpenStreetMap, a free and editable map of
| the world, or TIGER US Census Data. TIGER
| provides a tremendous amount of
| geographical data, including states,
| counties, subdivisions, districts, and
| more.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/mapbox-open-source-toolkit-creates-custom-maps-from-the-ground-up
Postcode data to be free in 2010
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| The government is planning to give anyone
| free access to postcode data.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8402327.stm
Why the UK's âSmarter Governmentâ Plan is Not So Clever
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| There have been various murmurings from
| the UK government about openness without
| much substance â except for the recent
| announcement that Ordnance Survey data
| would finally be released. Now we have the
| âPutting the Frontline First: Smarter
| Governmentâ plan that includes further
| moves in this area as part of a larger
| government transformation.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2682&blogid=14
A Sneak Peek at Cabinet Department Open Government Projects
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| In the news coverage over the Presidentâs
| Open Government Directive, two stories
| being overlooked are the release of an
| âOpen Government Progress Report to the
| American Peopleâ and the announcement (in
| a press release) that every Cabinet
| department will launch new open-government
| projects, details of which will be made
| available tomorrow.
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http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2009/12/08/a-sneak-peak-at-cabinet-department-open-government-projects/
Declaration of Open Government by Australia
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| The Australian government is emerging as
| one of the leaders in the sphere of open
| government. It has now published a draft
| report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce,
| entitled "Engage: Getting on with
| Government 2.0" (hmm, not quite sure about
| that phraseology).
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/12/declaration-of-open-government-by.html
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