[open-government] Data Transparency Presentation

Tue Sep 21 07:38:51 UTC 2010

Thanks Chris for circulating this and hello all,

We'd be happy to help if you need anything in addition to this.

Anni

On 21/09/2010, at 8:58 AM, chris at e-beer.net.au wrote:

> Hi Brian
> 
> There is the link I posted a couple of weeks ago to information on the
> UK's "New Public Sector Transparency Board and Public Data Transparency
> Principles"
> (http://data.gov.uk/blog/new-public-sector-transparency-board-and-public-data-transparency-principles).
> Some members replied to that on list with their own thoughts and some
> links.
> 
> Also just published is a paper from Digital Brand called "Open Government
> - The State of Play 2010"
> (http://www.slideshare.net/egovrc/open-government-the-state-of-play) -
> this has quite a few good references and links in addition to being a well
> written and thought out piece on issues and approaches to Open Government
> and Open Data in various jurisdictions.
> 
> I've cc'd a colleague within the .gov.au sphere who has an active interest
> in this issue and may be able to point you to more material, as well as
> Anni Rowland-Campbell from Digital Brand who may be happy to provide you
> with more information on their research.
> 
> Hope it goes well at the CGAIT conference!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Chris
> 
>> Hey all,
>> 
>> I want to pick the collective brain.  A colleague, Sean Hudson, and I are
>> going to be presenting at the fall meeting of CGAIT (the Colorado
>> Government
>> Association of Information Technology) about data transparency.  Sean and
>> I
>> made a simpler presentation to this group last spring, but we intend the
>> drive home the importance of data to the CGAIT members.  I would
>> appreciate
>> any ideas, case studies, and such from anyone in the group.  I will share
>> our Prezi and any materials we produce as well.
>> 
>> The following is the presentation discription:
>> 
>> Governmental agencies are great at collecting data; however we tend to
>> fall
>> down when it comes to actually making the data accessible and useful to
>> the
>> public. Today's citizens are armed with the knowledge and technology to
>> benefit (and often demand) the data that's behind your firewall.
>> Especially
>> during tough economic times, you don't want to be caught unprepared for
>> the
>> changing expectations. Find out why you should make your data publicly
>> available, see examples of how citizens and businesses are using data, and
>> find out how you can get started. At the end of this session, you will
>> have
>> all the tools you need to create an open data catalog and the knowledge to
>> prepare you for a data-driven future.
>> 
>> Note that one of the tools, we will discuss is opencolorado.org.  This Web
>> site is part of Colorado Smart Communities, whch is a newly formed
>> non-profit with the purpose of promoting open government in Colorado.
>> Sean
>> is the founder and President and I am a director and vice-president.  the
>> opencolorado.org Web site includes a data catalog run using CKAN and
>> Drupal
>> as the CMS.  We use data.gov.uk as our model.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Brian
>> 
> 
> 
> 

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