Open Data
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As 2011 comes to an end, there are 28 international open data platforms in the open government community . By the end of 2012, code from new “Data.gov-in-a-box” may help many more countries to stand up their own platforms. A partnership between the United States and India on open government has borne fruit: progress on making the open data platform Data.gov open source. In a post this morning at the WhiteHouse.gov blog, federal CIO Steven VanRoekel ( @StevenVDC ) and federal CTO Aneesh Chopra ( @AneeshChopra ) explained more about how Data.gov is going global : As part of a joint effort by the United States and India to build an open government platform, the U.S. team has deposited open source code — an important benchmark in developing the Open Government Platform that will enable governments around the world to stand up their own open government data sites.
White House to open source Data.gov as open government data platform
In December 2011, Osor.eu was migrated to a new collaborative platform: Joinup. Why was Osor.eu migrated? The reason of the migration to Joinup is to provide public administrations in Europe with better communication and collaboration tools to share experience with interoperability solutions for public administrations, to increase the number of users and to leverage synergies between the Osor.eu and Semic.eu user communities, while optimizing the use of public funding. Joinup is the result of an action of the ‘Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations’ (ISA) Programme. What is the objective of the platform?
OSOR.eu - Open Source Observatory and Repository —
Open data : l’Europe veut concevoir son propre portail
La Commission européenne vient de publier son appel d’offres officiel pour la création de son propre portail open data . Il devra héberger les données partagées publiquement par la Commission et, par extension, tous les corps et institutions européens. Pour l’emporter, les candidats devront aussi aider la Commission à définir et implémenter des procédures de publication, et intéresser les utilisateurs finaux dans l’exploitation de ces données.