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

Mon Aug 8 12:28:28 UTC 2011

Fantastic. Will the publicly available data be open as in
OpenDefinition.org? E.g. under a public domain, attribution or
sharelike style license?

All the best,

Jonathan

2011/8/8 Ismail Chaib <ismail at tesobe.com>:
> 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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>> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:16:06 +0200
>> From: "JOSEFSSON Erik" <erik.josefsson at europarl.europa.eu>
>> Subject: Re: [open-government] Open Public Services - Democratic
>>        Decentralisation
>> To: "Neil McEvoy" <neil at mcevoy.biz>,    <open-government at lists.okfn.org>
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>> 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
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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
>>
>>
>> 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
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>> Cloud Best Practices Network
>> http://mcevoy.biz
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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
>> To: "JOSEFSSON Erik" <erik.josefsson at europarl.europa.eu>
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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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>> Neil McEvoy
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>> Cloud Best Practices Network
>> http://mcevoy.biz
>>
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