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 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 readingOpenGov Voices: Opening up nonprofit funding data in Detroit
Detroit Ledger is creating a comprehensive database of grants made for and by organizations in the Detroit area.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: How 596 Acres is opening up vacant lots data
596 Acres has been running a pilot project that helps neighbors see opportunities in the fenced vacant lots of New York City’s most historically disadvantaged neighborhoods since August, 2011.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Going Dutch with open data
The Open State Foundation has made major break through in unlocking The Netherlands' financial data and making it open and reusable. Now they have an Open Culture Data API with 694,741 records.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: How Gasbie is improving local municipal financial transparency
Gasbie is making publicly available financial information more accessible to the general public in order to increase transparency and accountability in local municipal finance and inform the public about how public dollars are spent.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: How GitLaw turns the French parliamentary process into open data
Using GitLaw, you can take open data and visualize the French parliamentary process.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Exploring the transparency and open data landscape
There is a growing need for rich, accurate and timely information on existing organizations, projects, tools, stories and experts in the open data and transparency community.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Draw an API – An interpretation of open data by TCampers
Several people came together at TransparencyCamp to "Draw an API." Their interpretation of open data was meant to unpack the concept of open data and how non-technologists perceive it.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Hacking for women’s empowerment
Bread for the World Institute is organizing a hackathon to bring together coders, data scientists and data visualizers to visualize the untold story of data gaps on women’s empowerment for its upcoming 2015 Hunger Report.
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