APIs help agencies say yes -- FCW
fcw.com
on 05/17/2013
Excerpt: The White House’s Digital Government Strategy calls on federal agencies to roll out two application programming interfaces (APIs) that make high-value data and content available to the masses by May 23, the strategy's one-year milestone. But several agencies made sure not to wait until the last minute to release their tools for sharing content and data between communities and applications, and some of the government’s best examples of API development were on display during a May 15 mobile development panel discussion at the FOSE trade show.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Federal Government, Gov20, opendata
Talking about crime: The Chicago Crime site
blog.apps.chicagotribune.com
on 03/21/2013
Excerpt: Welcome to what we hope will be an ongoing series of blog posts by members of the apps team about our work analyzing and visualizing data related to public safety and crime. Crime is an important and popular subject. But interpreting crime data is tricky business, and developing coherent narratives and useful metrics is even harder. Last fall, Heather Billings, David Eads and Joe Germuska built the first version of a comprehensive crime site for the Chicago Tribune called Chicago Crime. Our goal is to provide the best online tools and reporting on crime and public safety for our readers.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, Gov20, Open, opendata
Hack D.C.: Hackers Put Open Data to Use to Help Improve Local Government:
dcist.com
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: In an auditorium at the World Bank on a Saturday in late February, groups of computer hackers huddled over their computers, intently pouring through thousands of lines of code and massive amounts of raw data. No, they weren't launching a denial of service attack against a government agency or engaging in industrial espionage, but rather putting their collective coding abilities to use for the greater good as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. At similar events across the globe, developers and coders—known more simply, though not pejoratively, as "hackers"—identified problems and used their computer know-how and stacks of open data to devise clever solutions.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Civic, Data, Gov20, Hackathon, Hacking, ODHD13, opendata, opengov
MediaShift Idea Lab . How Newsrooms Should Best Handle Public Data
www.pbs.org
on 02/27/2013
Excerpt: E-mail Your e-mail address @Your friend's e-mail address: @A message in addition to the URL: The information you supply will only be used to send this email. Idea Lab is a group blog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age. Each Idea Lab blogger is a winner of the Knight News Challenge grant to reshape community news. This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. Over the past few months something unusual has happened to public data projects: They've made national headlines.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Gov20, Hacker Storytelling, opendata, opengov
Excerpt: Welcome to what we hope will be an ongoing series of blog posts by members of the apps team about our work analyzing and visualizing data related to public safety and crime. Crime is an important and popular subject. But interpreting crime data is tricky business, and developing coherent narratives and useful metrics is even harder. Last fall, Heather Billings, David Eads and Joe Germuska built the first version of a comprehensive crime site for the Chicago Tribune called Chicago Crime. Our goal is to provide the best online tools and reporting on crime and public safety for our readers.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, Gov20, Open, opendata
Hack D.C.: Hackers Put Open Data to Use to Help Improve Local Government:
dcist.com
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: In an auditorium at the World Bank on a Saturday in late February, groups of computer hackers huddled over their computers, intently pouring through thousands of lines of code and massive amounts of raw data. No, they weren't launching a denial of service attack against a government agency or engaging in industrial espionage, but rather putting their collective coding abilities to use for the greater good as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. At similar events across the globe, developers and coders—known more simply, though not pejoratively, as "hackers"—identified problems and used their computer know-how and stacks of open data to devise clever solutions.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Civic, Data, Gov20, Hackathon, Hacking, ODHD13, opendata, opengov
MediaShift Idea Lab . How Newsrooms Should Best Handle Public Data
www.pbs.org
on 02/27/2013
Excerpt: E-mail Your e-mail address @Your friend's e-mail address: @A message in addition to the URL: The information you supply will only be used to send this email. Idea Lab is a group blog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age. Each Idea Lab blogger is a winner of the Knight News Challenge grant to reshape community news. This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. Over the past few months something unusual has happened to public data projects: They've made national headlines.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Gov20, Hacker Storytelling, opendata, opengov
Excerpt: E-mail Your e-mail address @Your friend's e-mail address: @A message in addition to the URL: The information you supply will only be used to send this email. Idea Lab is a group blog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age. Each Idea Lab blogger is a winner of the Knight News Challenge grant to reshape community news. This post was written by Ryan Graff of the Knight News Innovation Lab and originally appeared on the Lab's blog. Over the past few months something unusual has happened to public data projects: They've made national headlines.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Gov20, Hacker Storytelling, opendata, opengov
