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Open Data: UK Hopes To Serve as Model of Open Government
In the UK efforts are under way to centralize the collection and dissemination of data sets managed by various government agencies. Last month the Cabinet Office created an agency called the Public Data Corporation (PDC) with a charter of increasing…
Open Data: Good Progress, But More Work is Needed
One year ago President Obama challenged government agencies to become more transparent and make publicly available data which the government had collected. On January 21, 2009, President Obama said: “My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of…
Records Management: Government Agencies Need Policy Around Social Media
Despite the challenges that government agencies face in adopting new web-based technologies like Web 2.0 and Social Media, adoption of these technologies within the government is increasing. Privacy, security, records management and freedom of information have all been big stumbling…
Open Data: Governments Open Up
It’s been one year since since the US government’s www.data.gov “Open Data” site has been available. On opening day, 47 data sets were available, and now over the past year, that number has expanded to thousands. There have been over 97…
Open Data: A Groundswell of Civics and Technology
Tim Berners-Lee, architect behind much of what we now call the internet, has been a strong advocate for open access by all to data collected and derived by government bodies and agencies. The movement towards more open government has been…