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.”
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!”
“Openly Local is a new project to develop an open and unified way of accessing Local Government information. So far we have opened up data for over 40 local authorities, and more are being added every week, with more information being opened up too.”