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

Sat Aug 27 00:49:24 UTC 2011

Hey Chris,
Unfortunately, I've missed your presentation as well :(
How about Tuesday or Wednesday next week afternoon for a skype call?

Looking forward to meeting you at OGD.

yours,
Ismail

2011/8/26 Chris Taggart <countculture at gmail.com>

> Ismail
> Somehow missed your presentation at OKCON (not sure if you caught mine,  on
> the first day) but sounds like we should be leasing, esp re company
> identifiers.
>
> Let's have a Skype call to catch up/swap notes. Presumably you're going to
> OGD in Warsaw?
> Chris
>
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> On 8 Aug 2011 13:17, "Ismail Chaib" <ismail at tesobe.com> wrote:
> > 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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> >> 1. Re: Open Public Services - Democratic Decentralisation
> >> (JOSEFSSON Erik)
> >> 2. Re: Open Public Services - Democratic Decentralisation
> >> (Neil McEvoy)
> >>
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Message: 1
> >> 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
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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
> >> Founder
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> >> http://mcevoy.biz
> >>
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> >> Message: 2
> >> 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>
> >> Cc: open-government at lists.okfn.org
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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
> >> Founder
> >> Cloud Best Practices Network
> >> http://mcevoy.biz
> >>
> >>
> >>
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