[open-government] Looking for examples of 'collaborative e-government services'

Mon May 9 20:51:03 UTC 2011

Hi,

One particular example I really like is www.oldweather.org

The Met Office and the National Maritime Museum in UK worked together  
with the University of Oxford to develop this site. The Museum open up  
his archive of old ship log books where weather reports were written  
daily by captains. This handwritten information is now being  
"crowdsourced" digitized by volunteers over the web. In less than 6  
months more than 400 thousand pages of those log books have been  
digitized and scientist are already using the data to understand how  
was our weather 100 years ago and compare it to what is now.

I think this is a powerful example on how citizens, together with  
government opening data can help the society by improving our  
understanding of climate change.

Best,

Ruth

El 09/05/2011, a las 12:46, Ton Zijlstra escribió:

> Hi all,
>
> I hope you can help with providing some examples you are aware of in  
> your own country of collaborative e-gov services.
>
> Let me explain.
> I am contributing to a small side-path of a research project for the  
> EU on collaborative e-government services.
>
> Those are defined as on-line public services where either the  
> government provides a service which is based on citizen generated  
> data (crowdsourcing for instance), or where citizens or an  
> organization provides a service using government data (or also  
> citizen generated data, such as the Japan radiation map after the  
> quake).
>
> I will be collecting these examples at http://www.ourservices.eu/ ,  
> which site will also post the results of the actual research project  
> once ready. This to not just have it delivered to the EC, but also  
> published a bit more widely in a way that those interested have a  
> chance of finding it.
>
> Examples are welcome from all EU member states, as well as outside  
> if they are especially good ones. At http://www.ourservices.eu/?q=taxonomy/term/1 
>  you can see some diverse examples of what I mean.
>
> I'd be grateful for any pointers you may have (or bookmark  
> collections etc.) Particularly if your examples come from countries  
> in whose languages I have a hard time searching (such as Eastern  
> Europe)
>
> best,
>
> Ton
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