Open Data: A threat or saviour for democracy?
This is my presentation to the superb OKCON2011 conference in Berlin last week. It’s obviously openly licensed (CC-BY), so feel free to distribute widely. Comments also welcome.
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Open data and all that
Local info
- Open Election Data project
- Full List of UK Local Authorities
- OpenlyLocal Hyperlocal directory
- UK councils open data scoreboard
- Council spending data
- OpenlyLocal :: Freeing up local data
My links
Sites we like
- The Public Whip
- They Work For You New Zealand
- They Work For You
- Open Knowledge Foundation
- OpenCharities
Categories
- api
- elections
- finance
- freedom of information
- hyperlocal
- jobs
- local government
- mapping
- open data
- opencharities
- opencorporates
- openlylocal
- parliament
- planning
- politics
- presentations
- semantic web
- statistics
- Uncategorized
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- An open letter to Vince Cable
- Wanted: Ruby programmer who loves to work with open data
OpenlyLocal tweets
- @https://twitter.com/kentishtowner has been added to OpenlyLocal #hyperlocal directory bit.ly/Wd2FEm 4 months ago
CountCulture tweets
- G8 signs up to #opendata. Commits to #opendata by default. HUGE news for #opendata. gov.uk/government/pub… Congrats to uk g8 team 2 hours ago
- I'll be in Dublin tomorrow night, if any #opendata people want to catch up for a drink 1 day ago
- RT @OKFN: Congrats! MT @opencorporates: Delighted to be working with @WorldBank on registries.opencorporates.com pilot on access to company data #… 1 day ago
- RT @RRHunja: #g8ttt Let's open up extractives contracts and turn them into usable data #OpenContracting #opendata 3 days ago
- RT @willperrin: Different but v important type of #opendata - Nigerian constitution on a mobile phone ow.ly/1Xu04a #g8ttt 3 days ago
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July 15, 2011 at 7:19 am
Great presentation, thanks
Digital Chief
September 23, 2012 at 5:15 pm