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.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Ballot Path: who your representatives are & how you can run
The Ballot Path website is about leveling the playing field so we all have the same, easily accessible knowledge about how to participate as candidates running for public office.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Local governments get “On Board” with opengov
On Board is a tool by Michigan Suburbs Alliance that provides local officials with a secure database where they can access and manage information about boards and commissions. Simultaneously, it helps residents find information about these bodies and get involved.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Properly implementing the DATA Act is key to the success of the Act
The DATA Act provides new hope for data transparency, and implementing it through tools such as a standard data dictionary and core repository may be the way to ensure its success.
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