European tour on opendata: Sweden

By blogging and twittering, you get to communicate with people around the world. I wanted to take this opportunity to understand the different point of views and evolution of opendata and opengov in Europe. Here follow is the first chapter of this european tour starting with Sweden. Can you introduce yourself ? My name is [...]

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French initiatives in disseminating public information

During a parliamentary question on the French initiatives in the communication of public information, referring to the U.S. plan “data.gov“, French Prime Minister recalled the long-existing french portals access to information : – legifrance.fr for Laws – service-public.fr for Administration – statistics-publique.fr for Statistics All of these websites make simpler access to still complicated informations [...]

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Data.gov.uk, yes British can too

This article finds its roots in Alban Martin’s post “Apres data.gov, data.gov.uk ! (on attend toujours donnees.gouv.fr)” A new website dedicated to making non-personal data held by the U.K. government available for software developers has launched: Data.gov.uk. Only six months after the U.S. government opened its own Data.gov site, the U.K. site is being slammed [...]

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Introducing “Inspire for dummies”

European Directive Inspire is one of the most important legislative tools for the “opendata-believers” in the European Union. Specially if you are lacking an active national opendata program. Here below is a first approach and basic introduction to understand why. French Inspire case to follow :)

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Hiding datas won’t save us from transparency

With their respective Opendata Directives, Australia, USA and UK took a large step away from France on national transparency. While American Senate makes available all its voting datas, french national assembly still don’t show any informations, leading french citizens and non-governmental organizations to gather and work over getting datas created and usable. Nosdeputes.fr is a [...]

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