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Tag: open data
New step toward ensuring govt. can better find and share e-records
HUD automates records management to better handle FOIA requests
From Government Computer News:
The Housing and Urban Development Department has automated its case records management to improve compliance with the requirements of theFreedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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Step one in data-mining America: Build a big database
From ACLU:
A few days ago, we highlighted the drastic privacy implications of new guidelines issued to govern data-mining by the National Counterterrorism Center (“NCTC”). Yesterday, we testified to Congress about the problems with the guidelines, and we filed three Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) requests to learn more about how the guidelines will affect the privacy of millions of Americans.
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Social platform Nulpunt looks to abolish government secrecy
India, US launch open government platform
From New York Daily News:
Washington, June 12 — India and the United States have unveiled the Open Government Platform, a bilateral effort aimed at fostering transparency and enhanced citizen engagement by making government data, documents, tools and processes publicly available.
The event was part of the US-India joint commission meeting on science and technology Cooperation held here Monday.
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Open data, open government, and the truth behind transparency
A recent post and a not-so-recent paper that, among other things, sets out to distinguish between "open data" and "open government" in terms of actual meaning, usage, and potentialities.
From Nextgov:
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Open government reboot focuses on APIs instead of data
Oakland City Council Votes for Open Data Policy
From Code For America:
On Monday April 30, 2012, Oakland City Council reviewed an open data policy initiative put forth by city councilmember of the 4th District and Oakland native, Libby Schaff.
The open data policy agenda report composed by policy analyst Bruce Stoffmacher, proposes to make raw data sets accessible to the public on a new city data portal.
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2012 International Open Government Data Conference
From Data.gov:
Join open data and open government leaders from around the world for three days of speakers, panels, and collaboration on international open government data. The conference will be organized around two tracks: policy and technology.
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