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London, Ontario restaurant inspection scores, mapped.
Allows Ottawa residents to subscribe to their garbage shedule via ICal notification.
A web based visualization of 2009 U.S. congressional legislation.
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Many of the data sets on data.uk.gov are, in fact, PDF files. A citizen activist creates a crowd-sourcing tool to help identify them.
The transparency push is a year old and working, but you can't call it wide open, yet.
With Ottawa nearing a May council vote that could release masses of public city data in computer-friendly formats, nearly 100 people flocked to City Hall on Saturday to demonstrate the app-potential that would result if the City adopts an open-data policy.
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Ottawa's Open Data Report, presented to the city's IT Sub-Committee, outlining plans for a data catalogue in 2010.
How information is made available online fundamentally controls what can be done with it. Fortunately, an intelligent layperson can understand how structure makes data usable.
This report evaluates states’ progress toward “Transparency 2.0” – a new standard of comprehensive, one-stop, one-click budget accountability and accessibility. At least 7 states have become leaders in the drive toward Transparency 2.0, launching easy-to-use, searchable Web sites with a wide range of spending transparency information.
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Data Drip is a collective conversation about data, data policy, and research on media, information, and communications policy.
Improving access to government through better use of the Web.
First discovered via: E-Democracy.org
Giving an European overview of public government data, existing mash-ups and policy initiatives.
First discovered via: Ontario Public Service Web
