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News and Commentary
The status of policy implementations of Open Government Data by Joshua Tauberer's Blog
GovFresh is a news organization that "inspires government-citizen collaboration and build a more engaged democracy."
OpenGovTV "provides Open Government and Gov 2.0 News, Information & Resources for businesses, government agencies, and constituents to more effectively participate in and benefit from the emerging technologies designed to restore this nation's economy and create jobs as a result of an Open Government."
All US Government IT Projects Under Review
Denmark urges government support for open source
Open Source for America The New Government Accountability
The Case for Government Promotion of Open Source Software
Joshua Tauberer's News Aggregator
Sandy Springs, Georgia: The City that Outsourced Everything
States
CivicApps Portland App Contest
New York State Executive Order
Opportunities
Central Contractor Registration (CCR) is the primary registrant database for the U.S. Federal Government. CCR collects, validates, stores and disseminates data in support of agency acquisition missions. Is this the primary channel of US government communication with the private sector? If so, we need to start working with them to make APIs...
The projects that receive email funding.
Open CRS simply asks congress to make all the tax-payer funded reports of the $100m/year Congressional Research Service open and available to the tax-paying public. What is this money was allocated via open competitions?
Unsorted
http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/01/thomas-off-of-thomas/
http://localleaks.net (added)
http://www.allourideas.org/planyc
http://wiki.civiccommons.org/New...
http://www.meetup.com/speakupnyh...
Projects
MetaGovernment Project "The objective of the Metagovernment project is to enable individuals to be much more involved in their own governance, instead of relying on career politicians to take care of the important decisions in their life."
- Related Projects is a great list of projects.
Federal Open Source Technology Score Card from Open Source for America.
IT Dashboard: The IT Dashboard is a website enabling federal agencies, industry, the general public and other stakeholders to view details of federal information technology investments -
FedSpace: FedSpace is a secure intranet and collaboration workspace for Federal employees and contractors.
Digitalizer: Danish Approach to FedSpace.
OpenCongress: Track bills, votes, people in Congress.
LittleSis: Free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.
POPvox "bridges the gap between the input the public wants to provide and the information Members of Congress want and need to receive."
MetaVid: "The Open Video archive of the US Congress"
MapLight "Connect the Dots between Money and Votes"
Follow the Money "The Nation's Most Complete Resource for Information on Money in State Politics"
Open Secrets "OpenSecrets.org is your nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy. Whether you’re a voter, journalist, activist, student or interested citizen, use our free site to shine light on your government."
GovTrack Tracking Congress
Public=Online "“Government transparency is critical to creating a better democracy, and of highest importance in how I cast my vote. I pledge, through my sustained engagement, to hold public officials accountable for being open and transparent.”
CivicCommons "Sharing technolog for the public good."
GovHub open source repository for government.
Public.Resource.org makes bulk information from the government available like codes and court decisions.
The Open State Project collects and makes available data about state legislative activities, including bill summaries, votes, sponsorships, legislators, and committees.
"A ChangeCamp is a creative face-to-face gathering that is citizen-led, non-partisan and social web enabled
The First Earth Battalion Field Manual articulates a way for the US military to open itself up.
MuckRock is a website that helps you file, track, appeal, and eventually publish FOIA'd documents, all through a single web interface.
eDemocracy "We harness the power of online tools to support participation in public life, strengthen communities, and build democracy."
FutureGov is a consultancy and social innovation incubator helping to shape the future of government. We specialize in new media consultancy for government and social innovation. We also run campaigns and events.
Organizations
Sunlight Foundation has a tremendous amount of projects with which to collaboration.
Participatory Politics Foundation is a New York based nonprofit that built OpenCongress and is working on a similar application for open city and state governments.
Office of DC CTO is a primary mover in the open city government movement.
Code for America "Connecting city governments and Web 2.0 talent."
OpenPlans is a New York based nonprofit that helped create Open311 and other technology intensive open government projects.
Knowledge as Power: "KAP allows you to track legislation, communicate with lawmakers, and impact the laws of your state – it's quick, easy, and timely."
Open Source for America is a technology industry open source advocacy coalition.
GovLoop is a social network geared towards government employees with over 35,000+ members.
ProPublica is an honest nonprofit news organization that loves analyzing open government data.
Open Forum Foundation "are facilitators, working with government and technologists to ensure the future of government is in responsiveness."
Open Identity Exchange "The goal of OIX is to build trust in the exchange of identity credentials online."
Open Data Foundation "provides a place where the members of different communities can come together and work on the alignment of technology standards and software tools which will facilitate visibility and re-use of data at all levels of the statistical information chain. By promoting automated access to statistical data and metadata in this way, better decision-making becomes possible in many fields of research and policy-making."
Open Data Commons "is the home of a set of legal ‘tools’ to help you provide and use open data."
States
CivicApps Portland App Contest
New York State Executive Order
Opportunities
Central Contractor Registration (CCR) is the primary registrant database for the U.S. Federal Government. CCR collects, validates, stores and disseminates data in support of agency acquisition missions. Is this the primary channel of US government communication with the private sector? If so, we need to start working with them to make APIs...
The projects that receive email funding.
Open CRS simply asks congress to make all the tax-payer funded reports of the $100m/year Congressional Research Service open and available to the tax-paying public. What is this money was allocated via open competitions?
Unsorted
http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/01/thomas-off-of-thomas/
http://localleaks.net (added)
http://www.allourideas.org/planyc
http://wiki.civiccommons.org/New...
http://www.meetup.com/speakupnyh...
Complementary Currency Resource Center
LETS: Local Exchange Trading Systems
Bernal Bucks San Fran Local Loyalty Program
http://trustcurrency.blogspot.com/
http://www.opensourcecurrency.org/
http://blog.newcurrencyfrontiers.com/
http://greensborocurrencyproject.blogspot.com/
BALLE is a vehicle for connecting to local businesses.
Institute for Local Self-Reliance "mission is to provide innovative strategies, working models and timely information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. To this end, ILSR works with citizens, activists, policymakers and entrepreneurs to design systems, policies and enterprises that meet local or regional needs; to maximize human, material, natural and financial resources; and to ensure that the benefits of these systems and resources accrue to all local citizens."