[open-government] State Open Data - Where are we a year later?

Mon Sep 13 14:50:12 UTC 2010

I just re-read:

http://www.nascio.org/publications/documents/NASCIO-DataTransparency.pdf

A Call to Action for State Government: Guidance for Opening the Doors
to State Data
September 2009

Transparency initiatives and websites are proliferating across
government and industry globally. One aspect of the transparency trend
is broader access to government data. NASCIO has published this report
as initial guidance and recommendations to help state governments get
started with data transparency portals. This guidance presents the
value proposition along with principles and guidance on how states
should move forward.

...

It is a really good report.

I really liked this quotation:

“It is simply unacceptable at this point in history
that a citizen can use Web services to track the
movies he is renting, the weather around his
house, and the books he’s recently purchased but
cannot as easily monitor data regarding the
quality of his drinking water, legislation, or
regulations that will directly impact his work or
personal life, what contracts are currently
available to bid on for his state, or what crimes
have recently occurred on his street.”
Jim Willis, Director of eGovernment, the State of
Rhode Island, from “Wikinomics: How Mass
Collaboration Changes Everything”17

...

Since state leadership (and probably legislation is required to move
most local governments toward open data), I can't help but note that
this map looks pretty white:

http://www.data.gov/statedatasites

So, what can folks report? Are other U.S. states coming online with
open data portals? Where are we a year later compared to this NASCIO
report from last year?

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