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Working Group on Open Government Data
Purpose
- Act as a central point of reference and support for people who are interested in open government data.
- Develop principles for making official information legally and technically open
- Document background and status of initiatives to make official information open in different countries
- Support development of open government data catalogues around the world, and ensure different platforms are technically interoperable.
Project Members
- Working Group Coordinator: Daniel Dietrich, Open Knowledge Foundation and Open Data Network (Germany)
- Richard Akerman, open data advocate (Canada)
- Jose M. Alonso (Spain)
- Baden Appleyard, National Programme Director (Australia)
- Charles Arthur & Technology Editor (UK)
- Philip Ashlock, Open Government Program Manager (USA)
- Glen Barnes (New Zealand)
- Ivan Begtin (Russia)
- Lorenzo Benussi (Italy)
- James Burke (Netherlands)
- Armand Brahaj, (Albania)
- Richard Cyganiak DERI (Ireland)
- Emilis Dambauskas, Developer (Lithuania)
- Helen Darbishire (Spain)
- Tim Davies (UK)
- Makx Dekkers, independent consultant (Spain)
- Paola Di Maio, Web Scientist and Open Agency Consultant
- David Eaves, Public Policy Entrepreneur (Canada)
- Jens Finnäs, Journalist (Finland)
- Anne Fitzgerald, Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
- Brian Fitzgerald, Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
- Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
- Brian Gryth, Colorado Smart Communities(USA)
- Adrian Gschwend, digitale Nachhaltigkeit (Switzerland)
- Augusto Herrmann, Ministério do Planejamento, Orçamento e Gestão (Brazil)
- Bernadette Hyland, W3C co-chair Government Linked Data Working Group (USA)
- Katleen Janssen, Department of Law, Catholic University Leuven (Belgium)
- Kipp, Social Development Network (Kenia)
- Frank Kresin, Waag Society (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Yuwei Lin, Lecturer in Future Media School of Media, Music and Performance University of Salford (UK)
- Sverre Andrea Lunde-Danbolt, Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs (Norway)
- Esa Mäkinen, Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)
- Ellen Miller, Co-Founder and ED, Sunlight Foundation (USA)
- Christian Moryah Contiero Miranda, Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management (Brazil)
- David Moore, Participatorypolitics (USA)
- Olav Anders Øvrebø, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen (Norway)
- Matthew Pearce, The National Archives (UK)
- Morgen Peers, Consultant (Canada)
- Pranesh Prakash, Centre for Internet and Society (India)
- Scott Primeau, Colorado Smart Communities (USA)
- Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
- Marko Rakar, Windmill / Vjetrenjača (HR)
- Niels Erik Kaaber Rasmussen, ItsYourParliament.eu (Denmark)
- Juliana Rotich, Program Director of Ushahidi (Kenia)
- Kate Sahota, Warwickshire Open Data (UK)
- John Sheridan, The National Archives (UK)
- Robin Smith, Head of Information Governance Northampton General Hospital (UK)
- Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil)
- Nitai Silva, Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management (Brazil)
- Richard Stirling, Making Public Data Public, Cabinet Office (UK)
- Matthias Stürmer, digitale Nachhaltigkeit (Switzerland)
- Chris Taggart, Openly Local (UK)
- Carl Tashian, Opencongress (USA)
- Josh Tauberer, Independent software developer, civic hacker, and student (USA)
- Philip Thigo, Sodnet- Social Development Network (Kenia)
- Julian Todd, ScraperWiki & PublicWhip (UK)
- Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM (Sophia Antipolis, France) and DataLift project
- Stefan Urbanek, Independent consultant, data analyst, software engineer.
- Paul Uhlir, NRC Board on Research Data and Information (USA)
- Mireille van Eechoud, Institute for Information Law University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Ariel Vercelli and Bienes Comunes (Argentina)
- Zuzana Wienk, Fair-Play Alliance (Slovakia)
- Glover Wright, Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore (India)
- Ton Zijlstra, OurData (Netherlands)
- Javier Ruiz, Open Rights Group (UK)
- Julian Tait, Open Data Cities, FutureEverything (UK)
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- Valdis Pornieks, IT House (Latvia)
- Tim McNamara (New Zealand)
- Matteo Merlanti (Italy)
Projects
Principles for open government
Guidelines on making government data open, building on the Open Knowledge Definition.
Open Government Data Directory
Directory and guide to open government data initiatives around the world. History of laws, policies, practices and projects related to accessing and reusing official information. Examples of open government data initiatives around the world.
Part of this directory is the OGD mapping project. Please see the open government data mapping project wiki page:
Open Government Data Catalogues
Support development of open government data catalogues around the world, and ensure different platforms are technically interoperable. Work will include:
- Technical support for setting up instances of CKAN in countries around the world
- Introductory guide to open government data catalogues
RawDataNow.com
A website to introduce the concept of 'raw data' to the general public - including technical information, guidance and tutorials.
Created: 2010-02
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