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[ To The Wiki >> ] Request for Comments December 7-8, 2007— This weekend, 30 open government advocates gathered to develop a set of principles of open government data. The meeting, held in Sebastopol, California, was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy. The Internet is the public space of the modern world, and through it governments now have the opportunity to better understand the needs of their citizens and citizens may participate more fully in their government. Information becomes more valuable as it is shared, less valuable as it is hoarded.
8 Principles of Open Government Data
Open Government Initiative
March 15, 2013 at 1:38 PM EDT Sunshine Week: Increasing Access to Publicly Funded Research During Sunshine Week, we celebrate the ways government can improve public use of government information. We recently took an important step to increase public access to the results of research funded by the Federal Government, focusing on two key products of funded research: peer-reviewed scholarly publications and scientific data. March 14, 2013 at 3:20 PM EDT Sunshine Week: In Celebration of Transparency Sunshine Week is a good time to reflect on the notable steps the Administration has taken in the last year-and-a-half to fulfill its commitment to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)—a voluntary, global effort designed to increase transparency, strengthen the accountability of natural resource revenues, and build public trust for the governance of these vital activities.
Data journalism and visualisation from the Guardian Illustration: Lisa Villani for the Guardian Today we have a list of all the data journalism produced here on the Guardian datablog . You can see what's been popular and get easy access to the data we have curated as this list shows each datablog post's associated spreadsheets, authors, the number of comments and retweets. By sorting the blog posts by the number of retweets, we can see that Iraq War Logs formed the base of our most retweeted post , followed by a recent post from David McCandless on fish stocks .
All of our data journalism in one spreadsheet | News
World carbon dioxide emissions by country: click image for graphic and download World carbon dioxide emissions are one way of measuring a country's economic growth too. And the latest figures - published by the respected Energy Information Administration - show CO2 emissions from energy consumption - the vast majority of Carbon Dioxide produced. A reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions is not only the goal of environmentalists but also of pretty much every government in the world.
World carbon dioxide emissions data by country: China speeds ahead of the rest | Environment
Comment peut-on utiliser les données libérées par Rennes? Quelques exemples sortis du concours de la communauté urbaine comme une appli pour aider les handicapés à se déplacer dans la ville ou une autre pour comparer les points forts des quartiers. Le concours de développement de services et d’applications, initié par Rennes Métropole suite à l’ouverture des données publiques sur le territoire vient de s’achever. Un premier point d’étape s’impose sur les 43 applications et services qui ont participé.
L?open data, made in Rennes ? OWNI, News, Augmented
