By Alex Howard
As we flow into an period of extraordinary volumes of information and computing strength, the advantages usually are not for enterprise by myself. facts may also help voters entry govt, carry it in charge and construct new providers to assist themselves.
Simply making info to be had isn't really adequate. using info for the general public sturdy is being pushed by means of a dispensed group of media, nonprofits, teachers and civic advocates.
This file from O'Reilly Radar highlights the foundations of knowledge within the public reliable, and surveys components the place facts is already getting used to nice impression, covering:
- Consumer finance
- Transit data
- Government transparency
- Data journalism
- Aid and development
- Crisis and emergency response
- Healthcare
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That’s exactly the kind of organization-centric search that’s possible now with extracted information on a map, mashed up with indicators. ” Open data efforts are not limited to development. More data-driven transparency in aid spending is also going online. Last year, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched a public engagement effort to raise awareness about the devastating famine in the Horn of Africa. The FWD campaign includes a combination of open data, mapping and citizen engagement.
Some of its efforts culminated recently with the publication of a live XML feed for the House floor and a transparency portal for House legislative documents. There are other horizons for transparency through open government data, which broadly refers to public sector records that have been made available to citizens. ” For instance, while gerrymandering has been part of American civic life since the birth of the republic, one of the best policy innovations of 2011 may offer hope for improving the redistricting process.
The stability of the data and publishing on the web made it possible to have this data addressable with public links. ” Third, “version control adds dimension to data,” wrote O’Reilly. “Part of what matters so much when open source, the web, and open data meet government is that practices that developers take for granted become part of the way the public gets access to data. ” The Case for Open Data Accountability and transparency are important civic goods, but adopting open data requires grounded arguments for a city chief financial officer to support these initiatives.