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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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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 ;-)