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May 14, 2011
Open Data from Open Knowledge Foundation

A short film about #opendata from the Open Knowledge Foundation. For more information, see: opengovernmentdata.org.

February 13, 2011
Transparencity

Technically Philly, a Philadelphia-based website devoted to dissecting everything news-worthy in the local technology community, has embarked on a new venture: Transparencity. This special series is dedicated to in-depth reporting on the open data movement in Philadelphia as the city pushes to be a leader in sharing and using smart data.  Based on the idea that the future of government and citizen action will be data driven, the effort believes all citizens can be empowered through access to usable data.

October 25, 2010
Open Data: Yes. Now What?

Earlier this summer at the Future of News and Civic Media Conference, speakers swarmed around the topic of open data.  The question of the hour was undoubtedly something to this effect: how can we use data to drive action?

September 16, 2010
Sunlight’s Principels for Open Data Policies

Defining goals and evaluating open data policies in government can be tricky business.  As with everything else, transparency in government functions on a sliding scale.  There’s no basis for transparency and no way of gauging just how open an open data policy actually is.  The groundwork for these initiatives has largely been unlaid and in the end, we’re only hurting ourselves.