Working Groups/Government

= Working Group on Open Government Data =

Purpose
The Open Government Working Group is a group for everyone interested in Open Government Data. The Working Group’s purpose is to:


 * 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.

Participate
To participate in discussion, you can join the mailing list at: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-government.

The Working Group has regular conference calls: Every 1st Thursday / month at 16:00 UTC / 17:00 BST / 18:00 CEST via Skype. To join the calls please add your name and Skype ID to the pad: http://opengovernmentdata.okfnpad.org/call

Project Members

 * Working Group Coordinator: Daniel Dietrich, Open Knowledge Foundation (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)
 * Bill Roberts, Swirrl (UK)
 * 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)
 * Pedro Markun, Transparência Hacker, OKFN Brazil (Brazil)
 * Ansgar Scherp, University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany
 * TH Schee, Fertta Communications (Taiwan)
 * Timothy Vollmer (USA)
 * Jason Hare, Open Data Program Manager (USA)

Website
Apart from this wiki the working group has its own website at: http://opengovernmentdata.org/

Principles for open government
Guidelines on making government data open, building on the Open Knowledge Definition, are being developed at http://www.opendefinition.org/government/.

Open Data Handbook
The Open Data Handbook is a guide for everyone interested in Open Data. It discuss the why, what and how of Open Government Data. The Handbook has been put together by a team of contributors from the Open Government Working Group. To contribute material, add a translation or suggest improvements, join the Open Data Handbook Mailing List.

Open Government Data Directory
A 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.

We also aim to collect other useful information surrounding Open Government Data, like


 * Use cases & success stories
 * Most popular datasets
 * Guidelines
 * Best practice
 * Policy recommendations

Open Government Data Catalogues
DataCatalogs.org aims to be the most comprehensive list of open data catalogs in the world. It is curated by a group of leading open data experts from around the world – including representatives from local, regional and national governments, international organisations such as the World Bank, and numerous NGOs.

The aim of the Open Government Data Working Group is to 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

Events
There are lots of interesting local conferences, workshops and hackathons of the Open Data Community around the world. We are trying to make them more visible by adding them to a shared Calendar. This Calendar is curated by Ton Zijlstra from the ePSI platform and others. If you would like to help curating this shared Calendar, please say so on the Open Government Data Working Group’s mailing list.

Open Government Data Camp
Open Government Data Camp has been booted by members of the working group and hase turned into the world’s biggest open data event. It brings together civil servants, developers, NGOs and others for two days of talks, workshops and project sprints.

Upcoming

OGDCamp 2012 will be held in Helsinki, Finnland as part of the OKFestival in September 2012. Stay tuned!

Past years
 * OGDCamp 2011
 * OGDCamp 2010

Open Data Day
The Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualisations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments.

The Open Data Day has happend to bring together hundreds of people in dozens of citys around the world in 2010 and 2011 and it will surly happen in 2012 again. Stay tuned by joining the Open Data Day mailing list.

Related links

 * CategoryOKFNMember
 * Open Government Partnership