[open-government] [okfn-discuss] Fwd: Sharing your open government data stories

Sun May 29 17:14:40 UTC 2011

Great idea.

Although it would be a bit restrictive to limit to only Open Data case
studies. How about a broader Open Government Catalogue, which incorporates
general FOSS projects too?

This would be a great tie-in to Cloud. The big centre piece of the UK's
G-Cloud program is the need for an 'ASG' - Apps Store for Government, to
encourage reuse across the public sector.

This would seem something that the FOSS community would be ideal for
developing, and this could include Open Data.

Neil.

> A good friend of mine has just publicly released a project he's been
> working on: opendatastories.org. Please spread the word!
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Richard Best <rnzde at hotmail.com>
> Date: 27 May 2011 17:48
> Subject: [ninjas] Sharing your open government data stories
> To: ninja-talk at groups.open.org.nz
>
>
> Hi All
>
> A recent Gartner article called "Open Government Policies: Keeping
> Faith or Pulling the Plug?"
> (http://blogs.gartner.com/andrea_dimaio/2011/04/22/open-government-policies-keeping-faith-or-pulling-the-plug/)
> made me think there is a real need for governmental open data projects
> around the world to band together to create a repository of
> benefit/success stories, which all countries could leverage. I thought
> this could be done via an open website to which agencies,
> organisations and individuals could all contribute their own open data
> stories.
>
> I decided to build such a site, as a private - and not governmental -
> initiative. The site is at http://opendatastories.org
>
> It would be great if those with stories - and those who know others
> who have stories - could contribute their stories or encourage those
> others to contribute. And, of course, it would be great if everyone
> with an interest in this space could help spread the word.
>
> All feedback welcome.
>
> Best regards
> Richard
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