London Business Demography Report
data.london.gov.uk
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Aston University have carried out research into London’s business demographics to support the development of the London Enterprise Panel’s Jobs and Growth plan. This research was funded by the London Enterprise Panel and European Social Fund and is now available to users of the London Datastore.... read the full post.
Tags: City, Civic, Data
Gun suicide and homicide: statistics shaped by race
www.washingtonpost.com
on 03/24/2013
Excerpt: America’s pattern of gun deaths is split across black and white, with the vast majority of whites dying from suicide and a similar proportion of blacks dying from homicide. A similar split occurs with more homicide in diverse urban cities and more suicide in the rural areas that are predominantly white. Read related article. Note: All charts show age-adjusted rate per 1 million people unless noted. Homicide gun deathsIn most states, gun homicides by blacks is much higher than that of whites. D. C. and Missouri show the highest rates in black homicide deaths. NOTE: Whites and blacks are non-Hispanic.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, City, Civic, Data, State, visualization
New York’s data deluge begins
www.thenewyorkworld.com
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: Numbers nerds rejoiced Thursday as the city reached an important milestone: All the city’s online data, from rat reports to hurricane evacuation maps, must be downloadable from the city’s open data portal. March 7 was the deadline set under the city’s open data law, also know as Local Law 11. While it will take another five years to roll out in full, this week marks the first time that web-published information must be available to the public in machine-readable form, meaning that application developers, journalists and others can repurpose it into their own work.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, Data, Municipal, opendata
What Can Open Data do for You?
opencolorado.org
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: As an OpenColorado board member and promoter of open government, I have worked to educate people about the opportunities that can be created from sharing government data, known as open data. Government’s sharing data creates many opportunities for transparency, collaboration, community building, and economic development. There have been many papers, articles, blogs, and opinions that illustrate the benefits of open data. Still, I am always excited when I see the benefits of open data in my own life. In this case, my excitement came from using Denver’s Crime Map while looking for a new house. I was getting ready to make an offer on a house, so I wanted to look up information about the neighborhood.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, City Government, Municipal, Open Data, State Government, Story
Italian government ditches transparency and open data
blog.okfn.org
on 03/02/2013
Excerpt: This post is a translation of Il nostro contributo per salvare gli #OpenData originally published by Ernesto Belisario on Agorà Digitale. Most links point to documents and websites in Italian. In the past few weeks I have been very involved with transparency (and therefore, open data) together with the friends of Agorà Digitale. Right when we were all busy with the Settimana della Trasparenza (Transparency Week), verifying if and how much the expenditure data from local and central Italian government is open (the resulting data is here), the cabinet accelerated the passage of a decree reorganizing all norms concerning transparency (decreto unico di riordino delle norme in materia di trasparenza).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, Data, Government, Open Data
Woburn Mass joins the SeeClickFix Community with the Assistance of the Common Wealth and the City of Boston
seeclickfix.blogspot.com
on 12/30/2012
Excerpt: In case you have not picked up on it yet, we think the Common Wealth Connect Application that we have built for the State of Massachusetts is a pretty big deal for the open government community and the State of Mass. Take open civic communication dedicated to improving neighborhoods and distribute the costs and responsibility across 35 jurisdictions in one swoop and you get something that's guaranteed to make a pretty big impact. The most exciting part for the folks in our office, as it is with every new city launch, is getting to know the new users, citizens and muni folk alike, and getting to see what they do with their new toolset to improve their neighborhoods.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, City, Government, Issue Management, Municipal, Support
Excerpt: America’s pattern of gun deaths is split across black and white, with the vast majority of whites dying from suicide and a similar proportion of blacks dying from homicide. A similar split occurs with more homicide in diverse urban cities and more suicide in the rural areas that are predominantly white. Read related article. Note: All charts show age-adjusted rate per 1 million people unless noted. Homicide gun deathsIn most states, gun homicides by blacks is much higher than that of whites. D. C. and Missouri show the highest rates in black homicide deaths. NOTE: Whites and blacks are non-Hispanic.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, City, Civic, Data, State, visualization
New York’s data deluge begins
www.thenewyorkworld.com
on 03/08/2013
Excerpt: Numbers nerds rejoiced Thursday as the city reached an important milestone: All the city’s online data, from rat reports to hurricane evacuation maps, must be downloadable from the city’s open data portal. March 7 was the deadline set under the city’s open data law, also know as Local Law 11. While it will take another five years to roll out in full, this week marks the first time that web-published information must be available to the public in machine-readable form, meaning that application developers, journalists and others can repurpose it into their own work.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, Data, Municipal, opendata
What Can Open Data do for You?
opencolorado.org
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: As an OpenColorado board member and promoter of open government, I have worked to educate people about the opportunities that can be created from sharing government data, known as open data. Government’s sharing data creates many opportunities for transparency, collaboration, community building, and economic development. There have been many papers, articles, blogs, and opinions that illustrate the benefits of open data. Still, I am always excited when I see the benefits of open data in my own life. In this case, my excitement came from using Denver’s Crime Map while looking for a new house. I was getting ready to make an offer on a house, so I wanted to look up information about the neighborhood.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, City Government, Municipal, Open Data, State Government, Story
Italian government ditches transparency and open data
blog.okfn.org
on 03/02/2013
Excerpt: This post is a translation of Il nostro contributo per salvare gli #OpenData originally published by Ernesto Belisario on Agorà Digitale. Most links point to documents and websites in Italian. In the past few weeks I have been very involved with transparency (and therefore, open data) together with the friends of Agorà Digitale. Right when we were all busy with the Settimana della Trasparenza (Transparency Week), verifying if and how much the expenditure data from local and central Italian government is open (the resulting data is here), the cabinet accelerated the passage of a decree reorganizing all norms concerning transparency (decreto unico di riordino delle norme in materia di trasparenza).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, Data, Government, Open Data
Woburn Mass joins the SeeClickFix Community with the Assistance of the Common Wealth and the City of Boston
seeclickfix.blogspot.com
on 12/30/2012
Excerpt: In case you have not picked up on it yet, we think the Common Wealth Connect Application that we have built for the State of Massachusetts is a pretty big deal for the open government community and the State of Mass. Take open civic communication dedicated to improving neighborhoods and distribute the costs and responsibility across 35 jurisdictions in one swoop and you get something that's guaranteed to make a pretty big impact. The most exciting part for the folks in our office, as it is with every new city launch, is getting to know the new users, citizens and muni folk alike, and getting to see what they do with their new toolset to improve their neighborhoods.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, City, Government, Issue Management, Municipal, Support
Excerpt: As an OpenColorado board member and promoter of open government, I have worked to educate people about the opportunities that can be created from sharing government data, known as open data. Government’s sharing data creates many opportunities for transparency, collaboration, community building, and economic development. There have been many papers, articles, blogs, and opinions that illustrate the benefits of open data. Still, I am always excited when I see the benefits of open data in my own life. In this case, my excitement came from using Denver’s Crime Map while looking for a new house. I was getting ready to make an offer on a house, so I wanted to look up information about the neighborhood.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, City Government, Municipal, Open Data, State Government, Story
Italian government ditches transparency and open data
blog.okfn.org
on 03/02/2013
Excerpt: This post is a translation of Il nostro contributo per salvare gli #OpenData originally published by Ernesto Belisario on Agorà Digitale. Most links point to documents and websites in Italian. In the past few weeks I have been very involved with transparency (and therefore, open data) together with the friends of Agorà Digitale. Right when we were all busy with the Settimana della Trasparenza (Transparency Week), verifying if and how much the expenditure data from local and central Italian government is open (the resulting data is here), the cabinet accelerated the passage of a decree reorganizing all norms concerning transparency (decreto unico di riordino delle norme in materia di trasparenza).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, City, Data, Government, Open Data
Woburn Mass joins the SeeClickFix Community with the Assistance of the Common Wealth and the City of Boston
seeclickfix.blogspot.com
on 12/30/2012
Excerpt: In case you have not picked up on it yet, we think the Common Wealth Connect Application that we have built for the State of Massachusetts is a pretty big deal for the open government community and the State of Mass. Take open civic communication dedicated to improving neighborhoods and distribute the costs and responsibility across 35 jurisdictions in one swoop and you get something that's guaranteed to make a pretty big impact. The most exciting part for the folks in our office, as it is with every new city launch, is getting to know the new users, citizens and muni folk alike, and getting to see what they do with their new toolset to improve their neighborhoods.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, City, Government, Issue Management, Municipal, Support
Excerpt: In case you have not picked up on it yet, we think the Common Wealth Connect Application that we have built for the State of Massachusetts is a pretty big deal for the open government community and the State of Mass. Take open civic communication dedicated to improving neighborhoods and distribute the costs and responsibility across 35 jurisdictions in one swoop and you get something that's guaranteed to make a pretty big impact. The most exciting part for the folks in our office, as it is with every new city launch, is getting to know the new users, citizens and muni folk alike, and getting to see what they do with their new toolset to improve their neighborhoods.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, City, Government, Issue Management, Municipal, Support
