Although the G7 countries need to work harder to improve their national action plans on open data, the efforts made so far may be able to provide a useful lesson for the international community to learn from or to avoid.
Continue readingG8 Open Data Charter Action Plan: Open data by default, but you may have to pay
Although the G7 is moving towards "open data by default," they show hesitations and difficulties to guarantee their data will be free of charge. Here are our detailed analysis on the G8 Open Data Charter Action Plan.
Continue readingA lesson learned from the beleaguered NTIS
The National Technology Information Service once endeavored to provide a centralized and organized location for government documents. Now, its potential demise is a call for more effective information disclosure among government agencies.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Fracking chemicals, open data, and government transparency
As the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalizes a new rule to govern oil and gas drilling and fracking, the public is calling for complete and timely disclosure of the chemicals used at every fracking operation.
Continue readingHow accessible are executive orders in each of the 50 states?
We analyzed how accessible governors' executive orders are in all 50 States. Here's how they stack up.
Continue readingOpen meetings need open data
For open meetings laws to live up to their full potential, they need to reflect the opportunities provided by recent advances in technology.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: ZoningCheck – what works where?
ZoningCheck is making zoning data more open, understandable and executable so that organizations and small business owners alike can be able to learn what works and where in the cities they want to invest in.
Continue readingPolicy Deep Dive: Local open data policy in Canada
Even though Canada has taken the most positive steps among the G7, there is still room for improvement for their municipal policies regarding what data should be public, how to make data public and how to implement policy.
Continue readingRegister for “Unblight”: A community unconference on housing data, August 14-15
Sunlight Foundation, together with the Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer University will be hosting Unblight: a community unconference on housing and property data in Macon, Georgia on August 14-15, 2014.
Continue readingAgencies fail to deliver a plan to deliver the data
Eight of the 29 federal executive branch agencies that are required to publish Open Government Plans in compliance with the president's Open Government Directive to have yet to do so.
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