[open-government] Recent success (or failure) stories of LOCAL open data?

Sun Apr 10 10:37:26 UTC 2011

There's obviously the publication of spending data over £500 by
English councils (prob the biggest ever mass publication of local open
data ever, the aggregation of these on OpenlyLocal
(http://OpenlyLocal.com/councils/spending ), the subsequent matching
of these to real-world entities (companies, charities, other councils
etc -- http://countculture.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/a-first-look-at-the-council-spending-data-10bn-1-5m-payments-60000-companies/
) algorithmically and by visitors to the site.

Can't tell you how many positive comments we've had from ordinary
users and from councils themselves.

Chris
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On 10 April 2011 10:14, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Next week I will present some parts of my Open Data, Open Society
> report at a conference (I'll put the slides online after the event at
> http://mfioretti.com). I may have space to mention a few more examples
> of usage of Open Data not covered in the report. To this purpose, I'd
> like to ask you if you'd like to mention/link to Open Data stories
> that are both:
>
> - recent (the more the better)
> - LOCAL (ie open data from LOCAL administrations that impact LOCAL
>  community/economy)
>
> Thanks in advance for any feedback,
>
> Marco
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> how software is used *around* you:  http://mfioretti.com/node/129
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