In June, Gartner launched an Open Government Maturity Model which “provides government CIOs and strategic planners with a framework to measure the maturity level of their organization’s capabilities to effectively and efficiently engage constituents and other stakeholders in transforming service delivery and operations”. Gartner analyst Andreas Di Maio says: It should be used as...
Peter Krantz‘s Opengov.se is an one-man, non-governmental initiative that aims to highlight available public datasets in Sweden. The site contains a commentable catalog of government datasets, their formats and usage restrictions. A percent figure on the front page indicates the share of datasets that are available with an open license and in at least...
Although it sometimes take other actors to get government data ‘out there’, much government data is proactively exhibited by governments themselves. Data.gov in the US and Data.gov.uk in the UK are much-hyped examples. The Danish government has created their version with the Datakildekataloget (Data Source Catalogue). Datakildekataloget is implemented as part of the Government’s multimillion...
Sir Tim Berners-Lee only needed a bag of chips to explain what he means by open linked data. I like that. I also like his notes about government data. From the W3C, I also like the W3C Working Draft on Publishing Open Government Data and the W3C Interest Group Note Improving Access to Government...
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