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Provide the tools and knowledge for TEDx communities to promote and implement open government and open data initiatives.
Local, regional and state government data is often warehoused within specific departments and units. This tax payer funded resource is often coveted by departments and agencies for power brokering at budget times. Often the data is in proprietary formats preventing open access. The data needs to be liberated and converted to a standard form accessible by all citizens and policy makers. Using the tools that Hans Rosling has developed and now freely available as a Google spreadsheet gadget would help present data in understandable ways. See http://gapminder.org for more details.
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Open data open government open-source
Peter Myers
Yes = They are being built at high speed!
For TEDx and every human on our beautiful ball.
Al-Gore-rhythms;-)
Mystifyingly,
Peter
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David Warren 500+
What would it take to identify one village, one small city government to begin an initiative? What is your background?
Thank you for contributing.
David
Peter Myers
"What would it take to identify one village, one small city government to begin an initiative?"
Is it possible to identify yourself as the beginning an initiative? Once you have shown to govern yourself with total transparency would not your neighbor see and react from your model becoming more transparent and self governing too?
Oversimplifyingly, :-)
Peter
Mark Meijer 100+
David Warren 500+
I'm from Santa Cruz, California. Where are you from? What is your experience with local government? Any ideas on how we can work together on prototype Open Government initiatives?
Thanks for your kind words!
David
Christophe Cop 500+
Here's some links that I've gathered up to now concerning & relating the topic.
I would love to get involved in projects that support and elaborate on this idea
http://www.comminit.com/en/demandgov.html
http://peoplesforum.britishcouncil.org/category/deepening-democracy-and-governance/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19524279/Obamas-democracy-20
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/unpan028359.pdf
http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=941
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=138898542794126
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/the-future-of-our-cities-open.html
http://diycity.org/discussions/diycity-challenge-3
http://mashable.com/2008/10/14/crowdsourced-beltway-pandits/
https://www.socialtext.net
http://www.govloop.com/
http://www.collaborationproject.org
http://digg.com/tech_news/Democracy_2.0_-_Wiki_Democracy
http://www.freestateproject.org/
http://www.edemocracy.be/
http://pages.e-democracy.org
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/council-and-democracy/consultations/;jsessionid=CF1953788D2C6BA052E43C5F27559B90.tcwwwaplaws1
http://askbristol.wordpress.com/
http://networkedneighbourhoods.com/
http://www.fixmystreet.com/
http://www.mysociety.org/projects/
http://www.apps4democracy.eu/wiki/Main_Page
David Warren 500+
Have you attempted to put any data into Hans Rosling's software (now a Google Gadget) that can be added to a Google Spreadsheet in Google Apps?
What valuable articles or open source resources have you discovered?
I've been exploring your list of links...Thank you!
David
Christophe Cop 500+
Yes, I used Gapminder for my TEDx Statistics presentation
Here is the result:
https://spreadsheets0.google.com/pub?hl=en&key=0As6pGPInQcEmdG1UaUJpN3ZlRVlncGZlRFhLTUJMcXc&single=true&gid=2&output=html
concerning articles: Don't have that knowledge at my fingertips... so not going to do the effort ;-)
Anwar Dafa-Alla 500+