The Open Data Initiative, an effort to make government data machine-readable and accessible to all citizens.
Open data initiatives are happening in democracies around the world at all levels of government.
"The future is sharing -- open data, open participation, open source, open everything, " Newsom writes.
To learn more about Open Data resources currently available, please visit: Alpha.
With that sort of track record, it is clear why Open Data is very appealing for politicians.
When enacted, this bill will be the most ambitious and comprehensive open data legislation in the country.
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It is directly comparable with the current drive, particularly within the scientific community, towards open data and data-sharing.
This is especially true of the open data movement happening at the local, state and federal government levels.
We created and launched the Millennium Challenge Corporation Open Data Catalog to help the Global Development community.
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"We have stated publicly that personal data is not open data, " he said.
Open Data: the very name is a virtuous pairing of transparency and science.
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On scrap paper, we sketched out a simple one-page website that would tell the story of Open Data: Alpha.
"It can sound a bit geeky, " admitted Professor Nigel Shadbolt, the man trying to push through the government's open data agenda.
The Energy Datapalooza will demonstrate how private-sector entrepreneurs are creating jobs and helping Americans save money, using open data as their fuel.
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Open data initiatives, data marketplaces, definitive data platforms like Factual, commercial data providers, and companies that have valuable data will all try anything and everything.
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Gavin Starks, chief executive of the U.K. government's Open Data Institute, says the border between what data can be freely used and what can't is clear.
The richness of data made available through open data allows for a much more rapid research cycle, and hopefully a greater breadth of topics being researched.
An intercontinental project that bridged citizen science, open data, open source hardware, civic hacking and the Internet of things to monitor, share and map radiation data?
The only really new thing in the chancellor's speech was the recruitment of Beth Noveck, the woman who's been running the Obama administration's open data initiative.
Just like the corporate world, the intelligence community is facing the challenge of seamlessly integrating classified and internally collected information with open data from external sources.
As he pointed out, a minority of consumers will leap at the idea of open data, but most will be left cold unless it is marketed skilfully.
Along with the order is an accompanying Open Data Policy released by the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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Yet Google is a champion of open data, making it trivially easy for any Google user to export their e-mail, bookmarks and other data for use in competing applications on different platforms.
Second, we encouraged Federal agencies to treat open data as a core deliverable and as a default, not just as a nice thing to do after data have already been collected and analyzed.
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Furthermore, many African countries have embarked on Open Government practices, and to encourage this effort, in January 2012, AMI convened the first African Open Data Bootcamp in Kenya, which brought together journalists and developers.
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But even if the issues of anonymity can be addressed, there is the much bigger issue of what open data actually tells you, and its promise to unlock hitherto unseen links between disparate events.
But to remain efficient and to increase ease of living, it would be excellent to see how open data platforms, new hardware, software, and big data could aid in making L.A. an even better place.
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