[open-government] A City (& Region) Census - What are the Key Datasets?

Tue Feb 19 18:14:11 UTC 2013

Hi all,
I`d also include
- meeting minutes of municipal commissions,
- asset disclosures of local gov officers.
As for procurements, I`d suggest to refer to the whole procurement process,
not just contracting.
Best,
Julia Keseru

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Daniela Mattern
<daniela.mattern at it3s.org>wrote:

> Hi Rufus and all,
>
> looking at the situation in Brazil I would suggest to include data like:
>
> - location of public cultural equipments, public sports equipments and
> parks (looking for measuring what we call cultural exclusion)
> - location of public internet points/computerlabs (considering digital
> inclusion)
> - water shortage and power cuts (location/time) (mostly happens in slum
> areas)
> - referring to schools (school quality acording to evaluations)
> - location of slums and public housing projects
> - partnerships and money transfers from government to nonprofits for
> service provision
> - public construction sites and money spent
>
> Very interesting this project - we are trying to join data concerning São
> Paulo here at the moment.
> I recently had an interesting conversation with Rede Nossa São Paulo - a
> movement for sustainable cities ... more than 200 cities are in this
> network in Latin America. It would be awesome if we could think about how
> to deliver a software package that helps joining this data and monitoring
> to these cities.
>
> If you want we could have a hangout about this and make plans.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniela
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> When the Open Data Census <http://census.okfn.org/> was started last
>> year, one of the first things suggested was having a census focused on
>> cities or regions in addition to that on countries.
>>
>> I'm happy to say plans are afoot to make this happen with the work on the Open
>> Data Census on Open Data Day (this Saturday)<http://okfn.org/events/open-data-day-2013/census/>, and
>> for this work to focus on kicking off the City Census.
>>
>> As part of the preparation for starting the City Census we need to select
>> the list of 10-15 "key" datasets which this first round of the census will
>> focus on.
>>
>> I'm therefore writing to solicit* people's suggestions and input into
>> which datasets this list should contain*.
>>
>> A current draft list in an online spreadsheet here<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aon3JiuouxLUdEVHQ0c4RGlRWm9Gak54NGV0UlpfOGc#gid=3> and
>> I've also inlined the current top 15 items below.
>>
>> The spreadsheet is *open for editing so you can either add things there
>> or comment here on list*.
>>
>> *Note: to ensure that things do not get overwritten and confusion ensues
>> please add suggestions for new datasets below the line and add comments on
>> cells rather than edit cells directly.*
>> *
>> *
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> ### Current 15  key datasets for Cities and Regions
>>
>> Public transport timetables
>> City budget
>> Detailed actual spending
>> Election results (by constituency / district)
>> Air quality
>> Location of public transport stops & stations
>> Location of schools
>> Crime statistics
>> Health statistics (location of hospitals / surgeries, number of patients)
>> Water Quality
>> Procurement contracts
>> Restaurant hygiene evaluations
>> Road traffic accidents
>> Building permits
>> Prices of municipal services
>>
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