The White House published the entire Iran deal on Medium. The White House published the entire text of its landmark deal with Iran on Medium today.
This isn’t the first time the White House has published key documents via Medium. The publisher-platform hybrid has also hosted remembrances, a Q&A, and the entire State of the Union address. Medium estimates that it will take you about two hours to read the Iran deal in its entirety. The City of Chicago wants you to fork its data on GitHub. GitHub has been gaining new prominence as the use of open source software in government grows.
Earlier this month, I included a few thoughts from Chicago’s chief information officer, Brett Goldstein, about the city’s use of GitHub, in a piece exploring GitHub’s role in government. While Goldstein says that Chicago’s open data portal will remain the primary means through which Chicago releases public sector data, publishing open data on GitHub is an experiment that will be interesting to watch, in terms of whether it affects reuse or collaboration around it. ManaBalss.lv - līdzdalības platforma. Finland is about to start using crowdsourcing to create new laws — European technology news.