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Hurdles Block Important Access Laws huffingtonpost.com
Early last month, lawmakers in Iowa completed work on a new open...
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Sunshine/Open Government Ordinance Incorrectly Labeled berkeleydailyplanet.com
On Tuesday night's Berkeley City Council agenda, item #38 had a...
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Africa's Most Successful Women: Ory Okolloh - Forbes forbes.com
Ory Okolloh, a Kenyan blogger and open-government activist is a...
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In Colorado, Open Records Law Can Be a Weapon Against Transparency huffingtonpost.com
Coloradans have allowed our state's aversion to taxation to trump our...
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State launches open government website tonawanda-news.com
Tonawanda News — The New York State Attorney General said Thursday he...
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Some Edwards Jurors Believed Him Guilty on at Least One Charge nytimes.com
Three jurors in the federal corruption trial of former Senator John...
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About the author tucsoncitizen.com
Breaking Good News: Open Elections-Open Government campaign surpasses...
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Cape Town ICT Indaba - connecting Africa to the world itweb.co.za
"The South African government, in partnership with the International...
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Join me in voting for Seifert for Solano County Supervisor timesheraldonline.com
Supervisor Linda Seifert and Steve Messina are running for the...
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Open data in Brandon will be amazing brandonsun.com
The medical term for what just happened to me is a "nerd-gasm." And...
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Attorney General launches open government website uticaod.com
A new website from the state Attorney General's Office aims to make...
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Gulfport council discusses plans for public property in private sunherald.com
GULFPORT -- City Council members continue to meet privately to talk...
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A weak open for stocks on poor economic reports businessweek.com
U.S. stocks fell in early trading Thursday, promising another...
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US Tech Leaders Fear Proposed Internet Regulations, Taxes at ITU... pcworld.com
An update on the ITU regulatory reform
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The US Government’s Digital Strategy: The New Benchmark and Some... eaves.ca
Great discussion on the White House digital strategy, driven by...
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You have to be logged in to use the ReadSpeaker utility and listen to... warsawvoice.pl
Warsaw: The Ministry of Administration and Digitization has drafted...
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Is the Government Holding Back Crucial Documents? businessinsider.com
Next year will be a half-century since the death of JFK. And the...
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Open-Source Software for Governments in Spain techpresident.com
Two autonomous regions of Spain have recently made strides towards...
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The US Government's Digital Strategy: The New Benchmark and Some Lessons informationweek.com
InformationWeek is the leading news and information source for...
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Andrew
Moldova re-invents the Hackathon
Wayne Burke, Executive Director of the Open Forum Foundation, gives his account of last weekend's successful TechCamp and Hackathon in ...
Browse: open4m.org
This last weekend saw the first hackathon ever to occur in the country of Moldova, and they definitely made it their own. For a country that is just starting to build its civic hacker community, the results were nothing short...
Lulu
Local councils in Malta have started to install on their premises new internet-enabled kiosks with access to online services for ...
New internet kiosks in local councils to push e-government timesofmalta.com
The new internet-enabled stations being installed on local council premises to promote e-government. Local councils in Malta have started to install on their premises new internet-enabled kiosks with access to online services...
Jeff
Any versions/clones of WhereDoesMyMoneyGo in developing countries?
Looking for examples of public expenditure visualizations from developing countries. Anyone know any?
Lulu
"First, it's going mobile, putting government services at the literal fingertips of the people in the same way that basically every ...
US CTO seeks to scale agile thinking and open data to all federal... radar.oreilly.com
In this interview and series of videos, U.S. chief technology officer Todd Park lays out his ambitious agenda to apply technology in the public interest. He has introduced new presidential fellowships and programs to scale open...
Lulu
In California, Progress On a Bill to Open Government Records techpresident.com
Legislation that would require all California government agencies to make public records available in an "open" format moved forward on Thursday after activists rallied to persuade the state's Senate Appropriations Committee...
Andrew
Hopes of “open government” under Barack Obama have been only partly fulfilled
... although "the data show that in US states with strong FOIA laws politicians are less likely to be corrupt, and those that are ...
The best disinfectant economist.com
BARACK OBAMA accepted an award honouring his administration’s commitment to transparency on March 28th 2011. It was given by a coalition of open-government advocates.
Wayne
What can you learn from Moldova's OGP National Action Plan launch?
This week, Moldova launched it's OGP National Action Plan with a week of events to educate and engage civil society and the private ...
Open Government Blog blog.opengovpartnership.org
This week is Innovation Week in the country of Moldova. In collaboration with the World Bank, the government—in partnership with civil society—has set up a series of events to help launch the implementation of their OGP...
Satish
Hindustan Times update on Aakash
Its been over a decade- starting out with simputer, to mobilis to sakshaat and lately aakash.. and as many generations of children have ...
1 lakh tabs promised, not 1 given yet - Hindustan Times hindustantimes.com
Aakash may have created a global buzz as the world’s cheapest tablets, but it is yet to reach its target beneficiaries — students in India. Though the Centre had promised six months ago that Aakash tablets would be provided to...
Open Government Partnership voanews.com
Fifty-five countries are now participating in the initiative, encompassing a quarter of the world's people.
Elena
How a student used open data to beat national rail enquiries at its own game
Opening up rail data has helped Ian Shortman create a new way of negotiating Britain's train system
How useful is open government data really? How much can you use to build things that mak a difference to people's lives? It turns out that some of the most useful is the least dramatic. Recently, the Association of Train...
Elena
WB Chief Zoellick in an Interview with Fareed Zakaria - CNN video
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Watch GPS: Zoellick on Romney rumors globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com
All this on GPS Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET. On Fareed Zakaria GPS this week: The fallout from Francois Hollande’s win in France; Peter Mandelson, Josef Joffe, Elaine Sciolino and David Frum's feisty debate on Europe; how...
Daniel
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Oleg
World Bank Live webcast starting now on The Closed World of Company Data: How Can Open Data on Companies Change the World? with Chris...
Follow the conversation on Twitter: #OpenDTA
Open data in the corporate world: Why is it important? Where are the problems? How do we ...
Live Webcast streaming7.worldbank.org
Elena
Harvard & MIT Announce EdX, a Disruptive Joint Venture That Will Offer Free Online Courses
By the time the first MITx course launched, 90,000 people had already registered, merely proving the popularity of online education. ...
By the time the first MITx course launched, 90,000 people had already registered, merely proving the popularity of online education. Today, however, with the help of Harvard University, MIT’s upped the ante. Together, the two...
Lulu
(MENAFN) Oman's Ministry of Oil and Gas said that the country's crude oil and condensate output went up by 2.1 percent last month to 27.99 million barrels, reported Times of Oman. The ministry ... (MENAFN) Abu Dhabi Gas...
Saki
ODTA Event @ World Bank: The Closed World of Company Data, Tomorrow, Wed. April 25
Open data in the corporate world: Why is it important? Where are the problems? How do we solve them?
Wednesday April 25 | ...
EVENTS opendta.org
The Closed World of Company Data Open data in the corporate world: Why is it important? Where are the problems? How do we solve them? Wednesday April 25 | 12:30-2:30pm | World Bank J Building (J1-050) Follow the conversation on...
Lulu
Open government goes global guardian.co.uk
As co-chair of the Open Government Partnership, the UK has a lead role in taking the transparency message to a global audience, says the Cabinet Office open data...
