Publishing Open Government Data – “To help governments open and share their data, the W3C eGov Interest Group has developed the following guidelines. These straightforward steps emphasize standards and methodologies to encourage publication of government data, allowing the public to use this data in new and innovative ways.”
“The US Government has embarked on an initiative to enable people to sign into US Government web sites using commercial identities. The public announcements of the first steps were made last week during the Gov 2.0 Summit. Now that we can write about the initiative, here’s a personal recap of some of the steps that have gotten us here, and thoughts about what comes next.” Interesting summary by Mike Jones.
Database with over 100 different social media policies. Nice!
Ars Technica article about the challenge to provide hyperlocal information on a block by block basis by and for citizens.
“The Internet has made it easy to connect with anyone anywhere—but it’s still tough to know what’s going on down the block, in local schools, or at City Hall. One foundation has a plan to change this.”
“data.australia.gov.au is the home of Australian government public information datasets. We encourage you to make government information even more useful by mashing-up the data to create something new and exciting!”