Wikipedia DC and Sunlight Foundation are organizing an Open Government WikiHack -- a hackathon dedicated to finding ways to use structured government data to improve Wikipedia.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: FindTheBest – A new way of finding U.S. Government spending data
FindTheBest.com is bringing clarity to federal contracts on USASpending.gov and making it easier for users to research across thousands of topics on the government contracting.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: More transparent data is needed on bicycle and pedestrian spending
Advocacy Advance released a report looking at STIP documents to understand planned investments in facilities for people who bike and walk and why the public doesn't know more about these planned investments.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Is “sue them” the next “best disinfectant?”
OpenTheBooks.com is using indicators including waste, fraud and corruption to deal with oversight and find out how much government costs.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Making transparency real — Launching the Open Duka platform
Introducing: Open Duka, a catalytic tool for transparency, accountability and governance that showcases the power and use of data that is liberated from multiple sources and organized in one platform.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Join Open Data Day 2014 in Kampala, Uganda
The Africa Center for Media Excellence, Fruits of Thought and Mountbatten Ltd. are hosting the first Open Data Day in Uganda in a bid to engage stakeholders to open up the country's data.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: LocalWiki turns open local data into open local knowledge
LocalWiki is making it significantly easier for people to collaborate and create meaning out of open data in order to share it with others.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Creating open map layers for the census
JusticeMap.org is helping people — even those who do not have any map making or geographical information systems experience — to create maps that combine open map layers with their own data.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: The new frontier in Government transparency
OpportunitySpace is spotlighting transparency in public land use by aggregating and publishing actionable information about public property inventories, sale mechanisms, development plans and incentives.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: How Georgia is handling procurement transparency
The country of Georgia went from having a few hours of electricity a day to creating one of the world's most transparent online government procurement systems. Read how Transparency International Georgia helped.
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