Open data, entre business et intérêt général Les modes d’organisation administrative inspirés depuis les années 1970 du concept de nouvelle gestion publique ont modifié en profondeur la perception classique de la place et du rôle de l’État dans la société. Max Weber écrivait déjà en 1905 dans L'Éthique protestante et l'esprit du capitalisme que "dans la mesure où l'individu est intriqué dans le réseau du marché, l'ordre économique lui impose les normes de son agir économique". Ainsi pourrait-il en être de même pour l’administration qui, aujourd’hui, voit ses missions transformées pour tenir compte des évolutions de la société "hypermoderne" telle que définie par Gilles Lipovetsky. La réutilisation des données publiques En droite ligne avec la logique du marché commun et sous l’impulsion des nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication, l’Union européenne s’est intéressée dès la fin des années 1990 à la réutilisation des données publiques produites par les États membres. L’open data et la valorisation économique
The Collective Legal Guide For Designers (Contract Samples) Open Data et mobilité : lancement du concours MoovIn The City organisé par la Ville de Paris, RATP, SNCF, La Fonderie IDF et Vélib Open Data et mobilité : lancement du concours Moov’In The City organisé par la Ville de Paris, RATP, SNCF, La Fonderie IDF et Vélib’ 5 grands acteurs de la mobilité à Paris et en Île-de-France annoncent l’ouverture du concours “Moov’In The City”. A partir des données ouvertes par l’ensemble des partenaires, les participants disposent de deux mois pour créer des services web, des applications mobiles et des datavisualisations facilitant les déplacements au quotidien. Grâce aux dernières données mises à disposition, tous les grands modes de transport (métro, train, vélo, RER, bus, tramway, etc.) pourront être combinés, pour améliorer l’information des voyageurs, la fluidité des correspondances, la réactivité face aux incidents tout en limitant la pollution et en améliorant, in fine, la qualité de vie des Parisiens et Franciliens dans une ville en mouvement. Lancement (le 21 mai) Le programme : Informations et inscriptions :
The Weekly Flickr celebrates Mother’s Day In this edition of The Weekly Flickr, we asked you to help us celebrate those special women in our lives: mothers. We wanted you to share your photos of them and tell us the best advice she’s ever given to you. What better way to celebrate Mother’s Day than to hear their wise words that inspire our lives! We received countless photos and testimonials from participants, and here you’ll find a selection of them submitted to us. Happy Mother’s Day! After you’ve watched the video, be sure to check out the photos in our “Mother’s Day” galleries. “The best advice she gave me is to lead a happy, healthy and full life — such as hers. “The best advice my mother gave me was, ‘Don’t ever let the negative things in life get you down.’” – ✈ Sean Marc Lee 李子仁 “The best advice my mom ever gave me was to save money. “The best advice she ever gave me was you have to remember to always smile and keep your head up because your smile could make anyone’s day. Do you want to be featured on The Weekly Flickr?
RSLN #9 - Opendata : et nous, et nous, et nous ? IRS targeted groups critical of government, documents from agency probe show The staffers in the Cincinnati field office were making high-level decisions on how to evaluate the groups because a decade ago the IRS assigned all applications to that unit. The IRS also eliminated an automatic after-the-fact review process Washington used to conduct such determinations. Marcus Owens , who oversaw tax-exempt groups at the IRS between 1990 and 1999, said that delegation “carries with it a risk” because the Cincinnati office “isn’t as plugged into what’s [politically] sensitive as Washington.” Owens, now with the firm Caplin & Drysdale, said that before the agency’s most recent reorganization, it had a series of “tripwires in place” that could catch unfair targeting, including the fact that the IRS identified its criteria for special scrutiny in a public manual. The IRS came under withering attack from GOP lawmakers Sunday. In March 2012, then-IRS Commissioner Douglas H.
Universities Offer Courses in a Hot New Field - Data Science The field has been spawned by the enormous amounts of data that modern technologies create — be it the online behavior of Facebook users, tissue samples of cancer patients, purchasing habits of grocery shoppers or crime statistics of cities. Data scientists are the magicians of the Big Data era. They crunch the data, use mathematical models to analyze it and create narratives or visualizations to explain it, then suggest how to use the information to make decisions. In the last few years, dozens of programs under a variety of names have sprung up in response to the excitement about Big Data, not to mention the six-figure salaries for some recent graduates. In the fall, Columbia will offer new master’s and certificate programs heavy on data. The University of San Francisco will soon graduate its charter class of students with a master’s in analytics. Some of her classmates are hoping to apply their skills to e-commerce, where data about users’ browsing history is gold.
The Short Life & Fast Times of Fusion Drive Fusion Drive, we barely knew you. Announced as part of an Apple event held on October 23rd, 2012. Fusion Drive combined the large capacity of a conventional hard drive with the speed of a 128 GB flash storage to create a single logical volume with the space of both drives combined. Unfortunately many of Apple’s most popular Macs could not accommodate Fusion Drive due to a lack of space. There was also the problem of price. Let’s not forget that most users no longer need the high-capacity storage the Fusion Drive provided. Fusion Drive, no one needs your fragile combination of storage technologies anymore.
L'open data, une mine pour l'économie sociale et solidaire Le big data fait beaucoup parler de lui depuis quelques temps. Et pour cause. Cette avalanche de données numériques générées par la multiplication des vecteurs, l? Les pouvoirs publics eux-mêmes pourraient, en les traitant de façon optimale, réaliser de formidables économies tout en diminuant la fraude et en optimisant les rentrées fiscales. Les perspectives de l? Dans le même temps, un autre phénomène, plus discret notamment en France, prend de l? En France, l? Mais pour l? Les premières initiatives au service des citoyens De premières initiatives commencent néanmoins à voir le jour. Regard Citoyen travaille par ailleurs avec une autre jeune pousse de l? Né en 2012, à l? A n? Ainsi, en février dernier, au moment de "l?
InstaPocketability I was only half-joking last week on App.net, when I said I wanted to create my own read-it-later service . I have been an Instapaper user since 2010. Originally I didn’t see the point in saving articles to read later. My RSS feed reader was already archiving my favorite articles for me. Before Twitter, if I found an article on a site I wanted to read, I would subscribe to the RSS feed. Instapaper allowed me to read more by reading later. Ever since Marco Arment announced he was selling Instapaper , I have been reevaluating my read-it-later choices. Each read-it-later service Instapaper, Pocket, Readability, comes with its own strengths. Instapaper offers the best reading experience, and app integration. Depending on your priorities there is something for everyone in the read-it-later space. Website authors have the choice to opt-out of a given read-it-later service. The problem is made worse when you consider not all content discovery apps work with every service.
What is the ROI of open government? Putting a dollar value on clean water, stable markets, the quality of schooling or access to the judiciary is no easy task. Each of these elements of society, however, are to some extent related to and enabled by open government. If we think about how the fundamental democratic principles established centuries ago extend today purely in terms of the abstraction of transparency, the “business value” of open government isn’t always immediately clear, at least with respect to investment or outcomes. Transparency and accountability are core to how we think about government of, by and for the people, where a polity elects representative government. It’s that context, of course, that’s driving good, hard questions about the business case for open government. That’s the kind of thinking that has driven the World Bank to open up its data, to give people access to more information about where spending is happening and what those funds are spent upon. This post originally appeared on LaserFiche.
Links I Like I received a letter from Seth Fischer and he sounded so happy. I laughed at this part of his letter: “How is your family? Your health? I want answers where you avoid the questions! I miss that.” This week Antonia Crane and I discovered we confide in strangers. I usually leave places early. I told Jillian Lauren I felt nervous about the essay and she offered to take a look at it. In Jillian Lauren’s My Inappropriate Relationship, she writes, “My first kiss was not about pleasure but about power and for a long time those two things became indistinguishable.” After I submitted my essay, I read Matthew Specktor’s Last Book I Loved. In his essay, Matthew writes, “I found myself thinking, in my thoroughly stupid perambulations with the book (lugging a suitcase across a Ramada Inn parking lot, haggling with people at the Delta ticket counter), that just about everywhere is worth avoiding, that even the earth’s green places house more than their share of misery and boredom.
Open data : à business ouvert La donnée se démocratise à vitesse grand V. Le mouvement «open data», initié par Barack Obama dès 2008, a poussé de nombreuses administrations publiques à rendre au citoyen les informations collectées durant leurs missions. La liste des restaurants répondant aux normes sanitaires, l’inventaire des lieux publics accessibles aux handicapés ou celui des principales sociétés déposant des brevets. La France s’y est mise. Sur le site Data.gouv.fr, plus de 350 000 fichiers contenant des données publiques, ni personnelles ni confidentielles, sont aujourd’hui librement consultables et réutilisables par tous. Une directive européenne adoptée en 2003 et transposée deux ans plus tard dans le droit français a posé les bases de ce mouvement d’ouverture des données publiques. Bénéfices. Aucune étude ne dresse encore le bilan de l’expérience open data, mais 50 à 60 applications exploiteraient les données de la ville. Santé.