Posts Tagged ‘OKCON2011’
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
Recent Posts
- OpenlyLocal (finally) gets its own blog
- How to help build the UK’s open planning database: writing scrapers
- Planning Alerts: first fruits
- An open letter to Vince Cable
- Wanted: Ruby programmer who loves to work with open data
OpenlyLocal tweets
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CountCulture tweets
- @symroe @frabcus @Floppy Looking at these. Quarterly reports are rather different, but still of interest 1 day ago
- RT @opencorporates: Required reading for all interested in complex corporate structures & tax. US Senate cttee report on Apple (PDF): http:… 2 days ago
- @symroe @Floppy @frabcus Companies House currently charges for reports, restricting access unlike say New Zealand. Open to ideas 2 days ago
- RT @digiphile: NEWS: Russia withdraws from @OpenGovPart bit.ly/185VjYA #OpenGov & transparency has its limits, it seems. #OGP 5 days ago
- RT @tommyh: i can honestly say that @CompaniesHouse web site has been useless today. only saviour has been @opencorporates. hurray for #ope… 1 week ago
UK Hyperlocal Directory: Latest Entries
- Connect CathaysA wiki that aims: 1. to connect everyone as a community - both residents and visitors - in Cathays as a geographically-defined area, as an aim in its own right - tied in with psychological aspects of well-being, 2. to provide a facility that people can use to collaborate if they have to make evidence-based judgements, so that any decision-making is transpare […]
- onlineFOCUSNews and Stuff For Rochford District- since 2003. A site run for 10 years by local Liberal Democrats as a way of keeping residents informed and involved. Not an official party site. Community news, council news, local history, a few recipes, local events and more....
- Left of LightwaterA leftwards look at life in Surrey Heath
- West Kirby TimesHyperlocal news site for the Wirral coastal town of West Kirby.
- HeptonstallVillage news and information.
