OpenGov

The Obama Administration today took groundbreaking new steps to make information generated and stored by the Federal Government more open and accessible to innovators and the public, to fuel entrepreneurship and economic growth while increasing government transparency and efficiency.

Do open government initiatives make citizens more informed and engaged, and make governments more accountable to their people? In a nutshell: for all our visualizing, hacking, and democratically-minded merrymaking, what impact have open government initiatives had so far?

From April the Government Service Design Manual will be the place to find the digital by default service standard, as well as guidance and tools for building world-class digital services.

This is an experimental beta version of the manual, and it may contain inaccuracies or have gaps.

When I asked whether the push to free up government data was resulting in economic activityand startup creation, I started to receive emails from people around the United States and Europe. I’ll be publishing more of what I learned in our ongoing series of open data interviews and profiles over the next month, but two responses are worth sharing now.

Le plan d’action national US pour un gouvernement ouvert a été lancé en septembre 2011 et visait à corriger les dysfonctionnements de la démocratie représentative en plaçant la transparence et la participation des citoyens au cœur de son fonctionnement.
Ce rapport de mars 2013 publié par la Maison blanche examine les progrès qui ont été réalisés dans sa mise en place.

Après deux ans de travail autour de data.gouv.fr, qui ont vu la naissance et la maturation d'une communauté française de l'open data, Etalab lance le développement d'une nouvelle version de sa plateforme.

Dublin needs to be able to innovate – and to innovate you need to be able to experiment and to then learn from those experiments. This is a new approach by Dublin City Council to encourage, support and facilitate experimentation and innovation in this great city.

Sunshine Review is about state and local government transparency, engaged citizens, and holding government officials accountable. The Sunshine Review wiki collects and shares information about state and local transparency using a 10-point Transparency Checklist to evaluate 6,000 state and local government websites. Sunshine Review is a non-profit that collaborates with individuals and organizations across America to promote state and local transparency.

Le modèle élaboré par la ville de Vienne propose quatre étapes d’élaboration d'une initiative de gouvernement ouvert:

1. augmenter la transparence des données,

2. améliorer la participation ouverte,

3. accroître la collaboration ouverte,

4. mettre en place un engagement global.

Le 19 décembre 2012 j’ai animé à la Cantine de Rennes une soirée spéciale sur les données ouvertes de mobilité. A cette occasion, j’ai présenté un tour du monde des réutilisations possi...