All posts in the topic Mapping open government round the world (Short link)
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- Latest post made by Jonathan Gray at May 08 10:46 NZST
From the W3C list: Dear all, I am actually working on a research to map "open government" and "freedom of information" initiatives around the world. One part will be a timeline to illustrate the most important / outstanding issues and events on both government policy / legislation as well as civil society initiatives I would like to invite you to have a look on the timeline we have drafted http://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=19V5UTfrbw1fvBw1FjUJtmgJj9i6eG8nZTh6KoTDVlY0# and possibly add things we might have missed. Especially initiatives, projects, government policy and or law in your countries would be a substantial benefit to help us complete the picture. It should not take you longer than 10 minutes. If you don't feel comfortable editing the google doc you could also send me a mail. Tanks in advance for you kind cooperation.
Again I'm mystified as to why somebody is trying to reinvent the wheel, apparently oblivious to the fact that they've wandered on to the mature terrain of debate about 'open government' and 'freedom of information'. I mean, seriously, listing the UK Citizen's Charter from 1992? FFS. If you do feel inclined to help this person with their wheel re-inventing, you might like to point him/her to these starting points: http://freedominfo.org/ and http://right2info.org/ and http://www.privacyinternational.org/article.shtml?cmd[347]=x-347 -543400&als[theme]=Freedom%20of%20Information and if they really, really want a map, here's one: /_assets/http/www.privacyinternational.org/foi/foi-laws.jpg If on the other hand, this person wants to map 'initiatives to enable automated access to public sector datasets around the world', they should say so, and get their terminology right. ...remind me sometime to wander into some computing event and ask if some there has heard of Ruby on Rails.... On 8 May 2010, at 5:48 AM, <email obscured> wrote: From the W3C list: Dear all, I am actually working on a research to map "open government" and "freedom of information" initiatives around the world. One part will be a timeline to illustrate the most important / outstanding issues and events on both government policy / legislation as well as civil society initiatives I would like to invite you to have a look on the timeline we have drafted http://docs.google.com/document/edit? id=19V5UTfrbw1fvBw1FjUJtmgJj9i6eG8nZTh6KoTDVlY0# and possibly add things we might have missed. Especially initiatives, projects, government policy and or law in your countries would be a substantial benefit to help us complete the picture. It should not take you longer than 10 minutes. If you don't feel comfortable editing the google doc you could also send me a mail. Tanks in advance for you kind cooperation.
Just to clarify, the focus of this is to map 'open government data' initiatives, i.e. where there is explicit provision regarding *reuse* of public information, on a timeline. In particular government information that is open as in opendefinition.org. This is supplementary work for a report on the state of Open Government Data around the world. More information is available at: http://opengovernmentdata.org/ We intend to publish much of the material we are gathering in a wiki-like form so it can continue to be updated after the report is published. I agree with you that the reference to freedom of information may have been misleading as this is *not* the main focus of this timeline and has, as you say, has been well documented elsewhere. However the report that we are working on will identify opportunities for Freedom of Information and Open Goverment Data advocates to work together more effectively. We're working on this with Access Info, who worked on the Right2Info site you point to below. All the best, Jonathan On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Andrew Ecclestone