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One of the most important fronts of API development is Government. All of us API and data guys have all been screaming for city, county, state and federal government to open up their data via APIs for years now.
In 2011 I would say many government officials listened, and opened up almost 100 government APIs, according to ProgrammableWeb:
- Aadhaar UIDAI Authentication - Online authentication for Indian citizens
- Alameda County Service Provider - listings for social services in Alameda County (Oakland), CA
- API.LEIPZIG - Leipzig city data
- Örebro kommun - Örebro kommun information
- Baltimore Open311 - Neighborhood public issue reporting tool
- Berlin Open Data - Berlin data and information
- Brazil CKAN - Brazil open government data
- Capitol Words - Track words used by US government representatives
- Challenge.gov - Government challenge/solution platform
- Chicago Metropulse - Chicago quality of life data
- City of Boston Citizen's Connect - Boston residents reporting service
- City of Chicago Data Portal - Chicago datasets
- City of Edmonton Open Data Catalogue - City of Edmonton datasets
- City of Nanaimo - Nanaimo, B.C., datasets
- City of New Orleans - New Orleans city data
- City of Rennes - City of Rennes, France datasets
- City of St. Louis - City of St. Louis data
- City of Toronto: 311 - Toronto city government services
- CKAN Ireland - Ireland open government data
- Data Greater Manchester - Manchester, England open government data
- Data.CookCountyIL.Gov - Cook County, IL government data
- data.gov.au - Australia government data
- data.gov.sg - Singapore government data
- Data.Illinois.Gov - Illinois government data
- Data.OK.gov - Oklahoma state government data
- Data.Oregon.Gov - Oregon state government data
- Data.Seattle.Gov - Seattle City Government data
- Data.Washington - Washington state data
- DataGov.ru - Russian open government data
- Datahotell - Norway open government data
- Datanest Fair-Play Alliance - Slovakia government data
- DirectGov syndication service - UK government content syndication service
- Empire 2.0 Tech Talk - Government technology discussion platform
- European Union Legislation - European Union legislative data service
- FederalRegister.gov - Open source government data
- Find Your MP- UK Parliament - UK MP search tool
- Gipuzkoa - Spanish province government data
- Granicus Open Platform - Government open data service
- Granicus Training Management Suite - Government employee training service
- HM Revenue & Customs - UK tax document submission service
- Home Energy Saver - Energy calculator tool
- How'd They Vote? - Canadian Parliament voting records
- Influence Explorer Text - Textual analysis tool
- Kenya Open Data - Kenya datasets
- King County Open Data - King County, WA datasets
- la Lotera del Nio - Spanish Lottery Information Lookup
- legislation.gov.uk - UK legislation information service
- London DataStore - London government data
- Mobile Commons Legislative Lookup - Legislative representative information service
- MyBikeLane - Read-Only API for MyBikeLane and UncivilServants Database
- Nantes open data - Nantes, France city data
- National Broadband Map - US broadband information
- Nos Données (Our Data) - Government data
- NYC 311 Online - New York City Government data
- NYC Open Data - New York City data collection
- Oakland Crime Reports - crime reports service
- Open Data Badalona - Badalona city data services
- Open Data Catalogue Austria - Austria open data
- Open Data Euskadi - Basque Country government data
- Open Data gencat - Catalonia government data
- Open Kent - Kent, England county data
- Open Stockholm - Stockholm city data
- Open311 - Neighborhood public issue-tracking service
- OpenBaltimore - Baltimore City data
- OpenColorado - Colorado data sharing service
- OpenDataPhilly - City of Philadelphia data
- opengov.es - Spain open government data
- opengov.fi - Finland open government data
- OpenGovernment - State and local government data
- openparliament.ca - Canadian Parliament Hansards
- PDX - Portland geographic and real-time information
- PDXCouncilConnect - Portland (Oregon) City Council voting service
- Postcode Anywhere Government Data - UK government data service
- PublicData.eu - European government open data aggregator
- RealSearch TIN Reverse - Tax ID verficiation service
- Recovery.gov - Recovery Act 2009 data
- Redbridge DataShare - UK government data
- ReportIt - UK government trouble report service
- RI.gov Open Data - Rhode Island government information
- SAMHSA - Substance abuse and mental health services
- San Francisco Open311 - Neighborhood public issue reporting tool
- Sao Paolo Open Government - Sao Paolo state government portal
- Shropshire Council - UK government portal
- Sunlight Foundation's Party Time! - Political fundraiser invitation database
- Sunlight Labs Real-time Congress - Near Real-Time Information on the Current Congress Session
- Suomi.fi - Finland government services portal
- U.S. Department of Labor - Government open data service
- UK BIS - UK government business support sector
- UK National Archives Discovery - National archives catalog
- UN Contrade - International trade statistics service
- Union County NC GIS - Local North Carloina GIS service
- United Nations Monthly Bulletin - World economic development statistics
- US Consumer Product Safety Commission Recalls - Consumer product recall information
- USASearch - Government data
- USITC EDIS - U.S. trade document handling service
- Vote.ca Districts - Canadian Voting Place Locator Service
- Voter Guide Toolkit - Issue and candidate support information service
In 2012 it will be critical for more government agencies to open up, but also I think its time for us developers to step up and start making sense of this data and how our government operates.
We are getting what we wanted, now how do we deliver on the promise of open government APIs?