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• Unlikely Group Working Happily Together To Solve Patent Problem

  
  O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — Authority: 710
  People following the issue of open sourcing the U.S. Patent Database might have beensurprised to read an announcement in the official business opportunities web site ofthe U.S. Government: Synopsis for Public Data Dissemination Sole Source Contract to Google, Inc. While the first reaction of many might be "OMG, WTF, ...
  20 hours ago

• Les bons liens de la veille ( 3 novembre au 7 novembre )

  
  Blogging The News — Authority: 120
  Voici quelques articles dont la pertinence/l’intérêt m’ont marqué au cours des derniers jours. Faites-en bon usage ! :-) La première voiture sous Creative Commons, Open Source et crowd-sourced. Via @Calimaq – Chacun des éléments de cet engin au look de chasseur TIE est placé en Open Source de manière ...
  2 days ago

• Four short links: 3 November 2009

  
  O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — Authority: 710
  First Test for Election Cryptography (MIT Technology Review) -- The first government election to use a new cryptographic scheme that lets both voters and auditors check that votes were cast and recorded accurately will be held tomorrow in Takoma Park, MD. Founder of the company behind the technology is David Chaum, ...
  6 days ago

• Building a city that thinks like the web

  
  DavidCrow.ca — Authority: 112
  Today marks an interesting day in Toronto. Today Toronto joins Washington, D.C. , Vancouver , San Francisco , New York City , Australia , and the US in opening city data to citizens, companies, and the world to improve the quality of life. It begins a great journey to creating a strong new economy in ...
  6 days ago

• toronto.ca | Open [del.icio.us]

  
  Expanding horizons — Authority: 430
  The City of Torontos official data set catalogue - beta version. Access City data, get information about City data and the Citys OpenTO initiative and give us feedback. The City of Toronto is committed to open, accessible and transparent government.Includes ESRI Shapefiles for neighbourhoods & parks. No OS Derived ...
  6 days ago

• Toronto Open Data Lab liveblog

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 120
  The Open Data Lab is live and we’re following the Twitter hashtag #opendataTO.
  6 days ago

• Four short links: 30 October 2009

  
  O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — Authority: 710
  The3is In Three -- PhD students must explain their thesis topic in three minutes and one Powerpoint slide. Winner had written on the last words of Shakespearean characters as they met unlikely ends. No video alas, but what a great idea for an Ignite! (via sciblogs ) Google Wave: We Came, We Saw, We Played ...
  1 week ago

• Open Government Data and The Great Expectation Gap

  
  osrin.net — Authority: 99
  The level of activity around the world around opening up government data is nothing short of astounding. Governments at every level have engaged citizens, businesses and developers in combinations of public discussions and hackfests to look at how the data that they hold can be used in new and exciting ways. As I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Digital Engagement | Director of Digital Engagement [del.icio.us]

  
  Expanding horizons — Authority: 430
  Everything the Power of Information taskforce did on their blog we will do here, as we take forward their good work. ... Andrew Stott [the new Director of Digital Engagement] was one of the original sponsors of the Power of Information work and has a background in IT and culture change in the civil service. He is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Atlanta Mapathon

  
  OpenGeoData — Authority: 463
  I’m SUPER excited about the Atlanta Mapathon being held this weekend. Not because I care about Atlanta all that much even though my in-laws are from Atlanta. No, because I suspect that a huge mapping party, like a code sprint, is the most efficient way to get an entire city mapped. There are only 30 big cities in ...
  3 weeks ago

• Open Data at ChangeCamp Edmonton

  
  MasterMaq's Blog — Authority: 495
  Tomorrow morning local politicians, bureaucrats, and ordinary citizens will gather at the University of Alberta for ChangeCamp Edmonton . I’m encouraged by the number of people that have registered, and by the conversations that have already started. That’s what tomorrow is all about: getting people together to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Found/interesting: 11 October

  
  Mission Creep | Neil Williams — Authority: 451
  A few hand picked bookmarks. The wraps come off data.gov.uk! – Harry Metcalfe posted this exclusive preview of data.gov.uk – the UK government’s free open data store, currently in private beta. Explaining social media to senior managers by Michele Ide-Smith – “People are having conversations about ...
  4 weeks ago

• Call to Action: Join the Toronto Open Data Community

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 120
  Community members with an interest in open civic data in Toronto have a unique opportunity to engage City government, to learn about what the City is planning and to participate in a meaningful way in helping to shape the future of Toronto as a “city that thinks like the web”. Toronto Open Data Lab , part of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Four short links: 9 October 2009

  
  O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — Authority: 710
  Dont Display Negative Karma -- A fascinating insight for those building social software, whether for collective intelligence or otherwise: There can be no negative public karma-at least for establishing the trustworthiness of active users. A bad enough public score will simply lead to that users abandoning the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Nanaimo meet OpenID. OpenID meet Nanaimo.

  
  Random Nodes — Authority: 91
  How’s that for protocol? If you’re anything like me, you probably use the password reset function on websites more often than the login function. This is a huge problem, both for security and for user experience. The City of Nanaimo recognized that as useful as the city’s web applications are, requiring ...
  4 weeks ago

• City of Portland, Oregon Officially Backs Open, Structured Data - NYTimes.com [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 120
  The City Council of Portland, Oregon unanimously approved a resolution today that directs the city government to open data to outside developers and encourages adoption of open source solutions in technology procurement.
  4 weeks ago

• New York City Wants You to Create an App For That

  
  Bits — Authority: 783
  On Tuesday, New York City is opening up more than 170 data sets to software developers to build hyper-local Web and mobile applications.
  4 weeks ago

• Set our Data Free and Create a (Digital) Economy

  
  Redcatco — Authority: 397
  by moleitau (cc) It has taken me a couple of days to write this post, because my brain is still crunching on its contents. It touches on so many different areas of the technology and business areas that I am passionate about, that I’ve had to give up covering them all in one post. The historic destiny of data ...
  4 weeks ago

• hmg.gov.uk/data and What We Can Do

  
  Jeni's Musings — Authority: 397
  This week, the Cabinet Office went live with a preview version of hmg.gov.uk/data , available only to those who subscribe to the UK Government Data Developers Google Group . Harry Metcalfe has written a great review , or of course you can check it out yourselves. Already, though, there are discussions starting ...
  5 weeks ago

• Aussies launch MashUpAustralia contest

  
  TheyWorkForYou.co.nz blog — Authority:
  The Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce has launched a MashupAustralia contest . Entrants are invited to help show the taskforce why open access to Australian government information is good for Australia’s economy and society. Around 59 datasets from the Australian and State and Territory Governments have ...
  5 weeks ago

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