[open-government] Call for case studies: community groups and individuals using open data

[Zander Furnas]

Hi Sarah & others,
I posted a quick response to your post, but wanted to pass it around here
too:

It’s great to see that Involve will be doing some case study work around
these important questions. I think there is a real desire for this kind of
impact evaluation and data use research the Open Gov/ Open Data/
Transparency community right now. I’m a researcher at the Sunlight
Foundation, working on a case study project of our own that we recently
began in January:http://sunlightfoundation.com/casestudies/.

We are specifically focusing on technology enabled transparency policies,
looking at disclosures and platforms made available by governments in a
variety of issue areas (things like procurement, political spending, asset
disclosure etc.). You can read more about the thinking behind our research
here <http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/02/12/whytransparencymatters/>.
Would you be interested in scheduling some time to chat about our
respective research, and how we can learn from and benefit from each
other’s thinking?


Cheers,
Alexander Furnas

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From: Sarah Borwick <sarah at involve.org.uk>
Date: Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:29 AM
Subject: [open-government] Call for case studies: community groups and
individuals using open data
To: open-government at lists.okfn.org

Hi all,

Jonathan Gray has very kindly let me temporarily hijack this list to ask
you all for your thoughts and advice on a research project Involve (
www.involve.org.uk) are conducting on open data, participation and
democracy. Here is a brief summary of what we are doing:

A reasonable body of research has been produced into open data and its
impact on transparency and accountability, however, relatively little is
known about whether publishing government data has empowered, or is
empowering citizens, to hold public bodies to account and improve public
services, as intended by government. We are interested then, when it is the
case that people are using and producing data, in whether the government is
then engaging with those citizens and taking their ideas on board. Put
simply, we want to understand more from both sides about the level of
engagement going on with open data.

I have blogged about this on our website, if you would like more
information:

(
http://www.involve.org.uk/open-data-participation-and-democracy-a-call-for-case-studies/
)

What I want to ask you all then, is whether you, or individuals and
community groups you know of, are using open data to hold public bodies to
account. If you do know of any examples, no matter how minor/tenuous, I
would very much appreciate your thoughts.

My email address is sarah at involve.org.uk, and my direct line is 0207 336
9443.

Thank you very much for your assistance and I look forward to hopefully
hearing from some of you.

Kind regards

Sarah


-- 
Sarah Borwick
Research Intern - Involve

t: +44 (0) 20 733 69 444  e: sarah at involve.org.uk
w: www.involve.org.uk
Registered Charity No - 1130568

**
Check out our new publication: 'From Fairy Tale to Reality - Dispelling the
Myths around Citizen Engagement' <
http://www.involve.org.uk/from-fairy-tale-to-reality/>

www.participationcompass.org  <http://www.participationcompass.org>


-- 
Alexander Furnas
Research Fellow | Sunlight Foundation <http://sunlightfoundation.com>
@AlexanderFurnas
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