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Im Frühjahr hat der Berliner Bezirk Pankow, unter viel Aufsehen, begonnen die Ergebnisse von amtlichen Lebensmittelkontrollen im Rahmen des “Smiley Projektes” im Internet zu veröffentlichen. Herausgekommen bei dieser guten Initiative sind interessante Negativ- und Positivlisten zu Pankower Restaurants (interessant zumindest wenn man in einem der negativen Beispiele schon häufiger gegessen hat). Die Zugänglichkeit dieser Informationen könnte noch weiter erhöht werden, wenn die Restaurants alle in einer Karte dargestellt werden. Der Bezirk könnte dies selber tun oder interessierte Bürger bereiten die Informationen entsprechend auf. Hindernis bei der Verwendung durch Dritte ist das Urheberrecht und das Format, in dem die Listen zur Verfügung stehen. Soweit ich sehen kann stehen alle Informationen auf den Pankower Seiten auf berlin.de unter einer Urheberrechtsklausel, die eine öffentliche Verbreitung erstmal untersagt.  Würden die Listen zusätzlich in leichter maschinenlesbaren Formaten als PDF-Dateien, wie zum Beispiel als strukturierter RSS-Feed angeboten, könnte eine Übernahme in eine Karte schnell umgesetzt werden. Hier ein schönes Beispiel aus San Francisco.

• Government 2.0: The Challenge. The Opportunity. The Future – Moya Watson about here impressions from a session about Gov 2.0. She writes about examples of applications using open data, how government opens up to the web and possible risks associated with such a move.
• 8 Principles of Open Government Data
• Mapping North Korea – Interesting example of a collaborative effort: “North Korea is in the news. Not much is known about the secretive country, but a group of interested citizens has been mapping North Korea on Google Earth using snippets of news reports here and there.”
• The next Web of open, linked data by Tim Berners-Lee at TED. – “20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: Unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.”

Auf Einladung der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung hat Rechtsprofessor Lawrence Lessig am 15. Mai in Berlin in seinem sehr interessanten Vortrag die Grundlagen zu den Creative Commons-Lizenzverträgen dargestellt. Mit diesen Lizenzen können Autoren Dritten abgestuft Nutzungsrechte an ihren Werken einräumen. Nach seiner Aussage wird vielfach erst mit Hilfe solcher differenzierter Lizenzen die Produktion digitaler Werke im Internet möglich. Damit sich die Idee solcher Lizenzen weiter durchsetzt braucht es gute Anwendungen. Frei nach Lessig: Erst wenn ich einen Elch sehe, glaube ich auch, dass es einen gibt.

Gerade für den öffentlichen Sektor könnte sich die Verwendung solcher Lizenzverträge anbieten, um öffentliche Informationen für andere leichter nutzbar zu machen. Solche Bestrebungen gibt es auch zunehmend, jedoch bisher vor allen Dingen in den angelsächsischen Ländern. Hier fordern Behörden aktiv ihre Bürger auf, frei verfügbare Daten als Basis für eigene Angebote zu nutzen.

• Complexity and Social Networks Blog: ISPRAT 1st international government CIO knowledge exchange – Summary of the three-day event (5/18-20) “ISPRAT 1st International Government CIO Knowledge Exchange” in Washington, D.C.
• Open Government Innovation Gallery – “The Innovations Gallery celebrates the innovators and innovations who are championing the President’s vision of more effective and open government. In the Innovations Gallery, the public can browse examples of new ways in which agencies across the Executive branch are using transparency, participation, and collaboration to achieve their mission.”
• Digital Japan Creation Project – MIC Communications News Vol.20 No.1 – “The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has compiled and announced the outline of Digital Japan Creation Project (ICT Hatoyama Plan). The Project Outline sets priority policies that will be implemented intensively over the next three years based on the emergency proposals of the Panel on ICT Vision.”
• OpenGov: One big challenge? Or a thousand small hurdles : Tim’s Blog – “What’s the big challenge to using new technology for mobilisation / communication around social issues, where government or large existing organisations are to be players in creating change?”
• Legislative Documents in XML at the United States House of Representatives – “The purpose of this website is to provide information about the ongoing work of the U.S. House of Representatives in relation to the eXtensible Markup Language (XML)”
• Semantic Technology Solutions For Recovery Gov And Data Gov With Transparency Openness And Collaboration – Presentation by Mills Davis
• Open Data Commons
• Slicethepie – Interesting example, how the internet and social media can change business processes and models: “Slicethepie is a financing platform for the music industry that enables new and established Artists to raise money directly from Music Fans and Investors. “

• Zopa – Loans from people not banks – “Zopa is a marketplace where people lend and borrow money to and from each other, sidestepping the banks.”
• Open Up Government Data – Wired How-To Wiki – Effort bei wired.com to support the creation of a directory/repository of openly accessible public data by the US government.
• Osale: the Estonian eParticipation tool | ePractice – Best practice description of the Estonian web site for discussing current legislation and public innovation management.
• “Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web” by the W3C Interest Group – “This document is an attempt to describe, but not yet solve, the variety of issues and challenges faced by governments in their efforts to apply 21st century capabilities to eGovernment initiatives. Detail and useful examples of existing, applicable open Web standards are provided. Where government needs in the development of eGovernment services are not currently met by existing standards, those gaps are noted.”
• Local Government Engagement Online Research – “PhD research on local government and its citizen engagement online projects”
• digitalgovuk: examples of digital innovation in government – “This is a simple list of over 100 examples of social media innovation in the public sector generated from links tagged with digitalgovuk using the social bookmarking tool Delicious.”
• Nextgov – Researchers say social media essential for national security – “The authors divide government uses of social media into four categories: sharing information within the agency or department, or inward sharing; sharing information with other agencies and external groups, or outward sharing; obtaining information and input from the public and outside organizations, or inbound sharing; and sharing information with people outside the government, including the public and other nations, which they call outbound sharing.”
• Why Congress Needs a Version Control System – O’Reilly Radar -
• Visualizing the U.S. Senate Social Graph, 1991 – 2009 [Part 1] – O’Reilly Broadcast – Interesting graphics showing how state senators relate to each other by analysing their voting records.
• US Senate Votes Now Available in XML – Bring on The Mashups! – ReadWriteWeb -
• No, Really, Show Us The Data :: The Scoop – A list of data, which the US government should make more easily available.
• Command and House Paper Beta – “This beta site give you access to Command and House papers as HTML or XML documents.”