[open-government] "The Government of Catalonia's Open Data Project is already a reality"

Sun Nov 14 13:53:06 UTC 2010

Hey Jacobo,

great to hear from you. We've been doing the same thing here in Brazil with
a community called Transparência Hacker. Brazil also doesn't have a FOIA
altought the law is already in process of beeing voted and our group ensured
that the text (and by ensured I mean 'we wrote ourselves) complies with all
the Open Data Principles - so would love to exchange notes on that.

We've been in BCN the last week (for Drumbeat Festival) and while I was
reading Jonathan email I got really pissed that we missed that and couldn't
talk to no one while we were there.

Luckly, Daniela, who works with me, will be at the Camp. Hope you guys can
catch up!

[]'s
Pedro Markun

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Jacobo Elosua <jet at ezaromedia.com> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan and all.
>
> This is my first mail to the list. I am a member of Pro Bono Publico, the
> NGO that has been most active in the OGD space in Spain to date.
>
> The news about the Catalonian government OGD release are good, but they
> need
> to be read in conjunction with a few sobering facts: Spain (with
> Luxembourg,
> I believe) is the only EU country without 'Freedom of
> Information-equivalent' legislation right now. We hope this reality will
> change soon. There is a draft law in the making, although not particularly
> advanced... (1). In addition to that, the data sets made available
> proactively are still a million miles away from the desired level. On
> governmental spending, to name one area, quality data availability is still
> minimal.
>
> A couple of us will be attending the Camp next Thursday and Friday. We are
> looking forward to getting to know personally as many of you as possible.
> We
> really want to establish good working partnerships to be able to contribute
> as much as possible to the advancement of the OGD agenda from where we sit
> geographically (2). We have a lot to learn from you guys.
>
> Best regards.
>
>
> NOTES:
> (1) http://www.access-info.org/
> (2) my colleague David Cabo sent an email on Friday to
> wdmmg-discuss at lists.okfn.org detailing our (pretty much his) work in Spain
> along the 'Where does my money go' lines. I am unclear about the different
> lists and degrees of overlap. Let us know if it makes sense to forward it
> to
> this list.
>
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org
> [mailto:open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org] En nombre de Jonathan Gray
> Enviado el: viernes, 12 de noviembre de 2010 16:45
> Para: open-government at lists.okfn.org
> Asunto: [open-government] "The Government of Catalonia's Open Data Project
> is already a reality"
>
> Great news! ;-)
>
>
> http://blocs.gencat.cat/blocs/AppPHP/gencat/2010/11/09/el-projecte-dades-obe
>
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