[open-government] [Session Suggestion] Open Bank Project

Mon Aug 8 12:16:09 UTC 2011

Hi Folks,

We're happy to introduce Open Bank Project to you guys.
Open Bank Project (http://www.openbankproject.com/) is a European initiative
that aims at opening up financial data to a larger groups of individual and
softwares and raising the bar of transparency. Once a bank supports the Open
Bank Protocol, account holders could grant access to their financial data to
chosen groups of users or even the public. For instance, a political party
will open all its transactions to the public so that people or public bodies
would be able to track who give how much money.

The data opened and gathered through the OBP would be used in several
scenarios from fraud-detection to NGO donation tracking, we're particularly
interested in developing use cases that involve Governments (e.g. Gov
representatives disclosing their financial transactions, supporting data
journalism, linking these data with other gov data...etc). We're also
building an API on the top of the protocol so that developers can easily
access the data and reuse them in creative/useful manners.

We've presented the project at okCon recently here in Berlin and at other
conferences like Lift in Geneva. We're happy to count on a hard working
community, we have 2 Apache members in our team and start having good
discussions with European banks.

We're eager to hear your feedback about the project and we would be
delighted to present the OBP at the Camp. What do you think?

Looking forward to meeting you.
Best,

Ismail

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> From: "JOSEFSSON Erik" <erik.josefsson at europarl.europa.eu>
> Subject: Re: [open-government] Open Public Services - Democratic
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> Dear Neil,
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> I have an issue with the U.S. centric outlook of Beth Noveck's paper which
> bluntly states, only one year after the EU rejection of the software patents
> directive, that it's not politically possible to do anything about the
> patent system going down the "forbidden path" of Dispositionsprogramm:
>
> "Similarly, proposals to [...] revisit the scope of patentable subject
> matter [...] do not eliminate the need to address the information deficit.
> They also require extraordinary political capital to move through Congress."
> (p. 126)
>
> For obvious reasons, I don't see it the same way, and there are other well
> developed strategies, which is why I would hesitate to put the Peer to
> Patent portal as a headline example of Open Government.
>
> Maybe U.S. politcal capital can increase to levels where effective patent
> reform is possible. This NPR broadcast seems to me to represent a new wave
> of fundamental critique of the patent system:
> http://www.thisamericanlife.or?g/radio-archives/episode/441/w?hen-patents-attack
>
> If you are looking for a progressive solution for Open Government in the
> field of patent administration, please have a look at the Polluters Pay
> Portal http://eupat.ffii.org/07/p2parl/exam
>
> Best regards.
>
> //Erik
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org on behalf of Neil McEvoy
> Sent: Wed 7/27/2011 4:55 PM
> To: open-government at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: [open-government] Open Public Services - Democratic
> Decentralisation
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> Hey folks
>
> Here's my blog viewpoint on the recent 'Open Public Services' initiative
> from the UK.
>
> I think this is a critical step for the Open Government movement, as it
> provides a meaningful policy context for the technology tools like Open
> Data.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/OpenPublicServices
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> Regards,
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> --
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> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:17:23 -0400
> From: "Neil McEvoy" <neil at mcevoy.biz>
> Subject: Re: [open-government] Open Public Services - Democratic
>        Decentralisation
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> Hi Erik
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> My primary focus is not so much on the patent system, and so I have no
> expertise to comment on your analysis. I am mainly interested in
> encouraging governments to take that first step, ie moving government
> process from 'closed' to 'open', by moving it online in this form.
>
> I'm quite sure Peer to Patent is not perfect, and certainly not so in the
> specific terms you describe, but technologically it's hugely more advanced
> than 99% of government processes, and is a big step on from where they
> were.
>
> Kind regards, Neil.
>
>
> > Dear Neil,
> >
> > I have an issue with the U.S. centric outlook of Beth Noveck's paper
> which
> > bluntly states, only one year after the EU rejection of the software
> > patents directive, that it's not politically possible to do anything
> about
> > the patent system going down the "forbidden path" of
> Dispositionsprogramm:
> >
> > "Similarly, proposals to [...] revisit the scope of patentable subject
> > matter [...] do not eliminate the need to address the information
> deficit.
> > They also require extraordinary political capital to move through
> > Congress." (p. 126)
> >
> > For obvious reasons, I don't see it the same way, and there are other
> well
> > developed strategies, which is why I would hesitate to put the Peer to
> > Patent portal as a headline example of Open Government.
> >
> > Maybe U.S. politcal capital can increase to levels where effective patent
> > reform is possible. This NPR broadcast seems to me to represent a new
> wave
> > of fundamental critique of the patent system:
> >
> http://www.thisamericanlife.or?g/radio-archives/episode/441/w?hen-patents-attack
> >
> > If you are looking for a progressive solution for Open Government in the
> > field of patent administration, please have a look at the Polluters Pay
> > Portal http://eupat.ffii.org/07/p2parl/exam
> >
> > Best regards.
> >
> > //Erik
> >
> >
> > Erik Josefsson
> > Adviser on internet policies
> > Greens/EFA Group
> > BXL: PHS 04C025 TEL: +3222832667
> > SBG: WIC M03005 TEL: +33388173776
> > GSM: +32484082063
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: open-government-bounces at lists.okfn.org on behalf of Neil McEvoy
> > Sent: Wed 7/27/2011 4:55 PM
> > To: open-government at lists.okfn.org
> > Subject: [open-government] Open Public Services - Democratic
> > Decentralisation
> >
> >
> > Hey folks
> >
> > Here's my blog viewpoint on the recent 'Open Public Services' initiative
> > from the UK.
> >
> > I think this is a critical step for the Open Government movement, as it
> > provides a meaningful policy context for the technology tools like Open
> > Data.
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/OpenPublicServices
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Neil McEvoy
> > Founder
> > Cloud Best Practices Network
> > http://mcevoy.biz
> >
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