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• Open and Machine Readable as the new default for US government data

  
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  On May 9, 2013 The White House published an executive order - “Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information”  essentially reaffirming the new strategies the US government agencies to share data with the public. Before we state why is this important, lets focus on what exactly open ...
  1 week ago

• The Impact of Opening up Lobbying Data

  
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  We found a varied landscape when we explored what cities include in releases of lobbying data and how they release it, but one thing is clear: Disclosing and contextualizing lobbying data can have a high impact on a community. Journalists and other watchdogs who dig into municipal lobbying information have unearthed ...
  2 weeks ago

• There Is More To The US Open Data Policy Than Meets The Eye

  
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  On May 9, after a longer-than-expected preparation, the Open Data Policy announced as part of the US Digital Government Strategy has been issued together with an executive order signed by President Obama about Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information . As one reads the order, ...
  2 weeks ago

• {young} Rewiring the States – starting in New York

  
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  Rewired State has been hosting Young Rewired State (YRS) for five years, finding and fostering children aged 18 or under driven to teach themselves how to code. YRS introduces these youth to open government data and to one another to create a worldwide community of young civic-minded people who are able to ...
  2 weeks ago

• A New Focus on Sunlights APIs

  
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  At Sunlight were immensely proud of our community of API users and today were launching a new section of our website to learn more about them, see how others use the data and a snazzy query builder to easily see whats possible. Sunlight creates APIs to power our own tools as well as to provide infrastructure to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Evaluating Municipal Lobbying Data: Philadelphia

  
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  “Consistent” is not the first word one would use to describe the landscape of lobbying data released by municipalities. As revealed by our research , the formats and range of information local governments collect and disclose about lobbying activity varies quite a bit from one community context to another. After ...
  3 weeks ago

• Follow the Money, Follow the Data

  
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  The following guest post from Martin Tisné was first published on his personal blog . Some thoughts which I hope may be helpful in advance of the ‘ follow the data ‘ hack day this week-end: The open data sector has quite successfully focused on socially-relevant information: fixing potholes a la ...
  3 weeks ago

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