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Jean Michel Billaut: Connaissez-vous François Bancilhon from Paris ? L'open data gagne la France...
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The 2010 US Census has begun publishing its detailed demographic data state by state and the race now begins to see which data geeks can do the coolest things with the information.
Your Neighborhood Data Visualized: Startup Builds Census Map Block by Block
How Open Data Initiatives Can Improve City Life
Major city governments across North America are looking for ways to share civic data — which normally resides behind secure firewalls — with private developers who can leverage it to serve city residents via web and mobile apps. Cities can spend on average between $20,000 and $50,000 — even as much as $100,000 — to cover the costs of opening data, but that’s a small price to pay when you consider how much is needed to develop a custom application that might not be nearly as useful.The Open Data movement tries to get governments and other organizations to put up online as much raw data as they can so that scientists, developers and entrepreneurs can use it for research and to build innovative services.
City Of Paris Opens Up Its Data
Open Data: Empowering the Empowered or Effective Data Use for Everyone? » Article » OWNI.eu, Digital Journalism
The open data movement in the area of access to public (and other) information is a relatively new but very significant, and potentially powerful, emerging force.