Four citizen groups in Georgia are promoting a new level of transparency by uniting their freedom of information efforts in a single website called OpenData.ge.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Visualizing the U.S. budget and other civic tools
Data is only useful when people who need it can use it to make decisions. Making data transparent means not just releasing it to the public, but giving the public tools to understand it.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Improving communication between politicians and citizens
Freagle is a virtual town square that combines social networking, big data and analytics technologies to reconnect voters and political leaders.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: How open is your city’s crime data?
SpotCrime ranks US cities on a scale of 0 to 2 on how open and transparent their police agencies are with crime data. A 2 ranking means the city is open with its data, a 0 means it’s not.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: How Datasembly plans to make open data more discoverable and usable
The increase of the availability of open data should make it easier for analysts to solve problems and have better insight into the actions of the government. Datasembly is helping by making open data more discoverable and usable.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Philadelphia’s open data program
Governments that make an investment in releasing data that allows outsiders to ask tough questions are sending a clear signal to prospective data users that they are serious, that the foundations of data sharing are solid.
Continue readingLive from Chicago! Campaign finance data in real time
With election season heating up, knowing who’s spending money on political campaigns has never been more critical. In Illinois, this kind of data is challenging to get, especially in bulk. Until now.
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 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.
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