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El Encuentro Regional de la AGA en Chile: Gobierno Abierto en América Latina
Source: Skyline Santiago City, Chile, Victorddt *An English version of this post can be found following the Spanish version El mapa político de América Latina ha cambiado radicalmente en las última..

January 8, 2013

2013

Hurricane Sandy, Open Data and Social Media
From hackathons to social media, open government is transforming the way that Mayor Bloomberg’s administration and New York City government serve the public. And there has been no greater testament to..

January 2, 2013

2013

Case Study (2013): Canada’s Open Government Licence
One of the major goals of the Government of Canada’s open government work has been to support a more seamless end-user experience. We have found that users want government information, especially data..

January 1, 2013

2013

Case Study (2013): Bringing Government Closer to Citizens in Chile
“For us, open government is a government that is closer to its citizens”, says rafael Ariztía, head of the state modernization Unit, when asked about the Chilean government’s vision of OGP. He means t..

January 1, 2013

2013

SELECTED COUNTRY EXPERIENCES WITH THE OGP PROCESS AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL : MEXICO
This is the second in a five part series of posts based on Q&As with selected countries and their experiences with the OGP process at the national level. This post is a Q&A with Emilene Morales Martin..

December 27, 2012

2012

The trouble with Geoportals: Why open data should be open, free, and accessible
Source: Chris Herwig, Mapbox       In our conversations surrounding open government data, both domestically and internationally, we should be discussing best practices for making open data mo..

December 20, 2012

2012

Open government doesn’t naturally flow from open information: big ideas meet challenges in British Columbia
On September 19th, many of British Columbia’s leading minds on freedom of information and privacy issues gathered in downtown Vancouver for the 2012 BC Information Summit. Under the moniker This Tim..

September 28, 2012

2012

Open Government Promises, Progress, and Flagship Projects
TreeMendelBlog.png President Obama launched his term with grand hopes and big initiatives. Of the many promises that he campaigned on, one of them was, of course, th..

August 7, 2012

2012

# OpenStreetMap and OpenGovernment *Mapping Brasilia during the OpenGovernment Meetings*
Along side the OGP meetings April 17-18, we spent two days opening local geo data with OpenStreetMap. There's a lot of excitement in Brazil around OpenStreetMap, which you can see in its recent commun..

May 2, 2012

2012

OpenStreetMap OGP Mapping Party on Sunday
More than just talking about open data at next week's OGP High-Level Conference in Brasilia, we will be making open data. This Sunday there will be an OpenStreetMap 'mapping party' where you can go ou..

April 14, 2012

2012

Demonstrating Participatory Values at the Brasilia Meeting
The following blog entry was written by Dr. Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, an innovator in deliberative democracy, public administration, and organizational development. She is Founder and President of Globa..

April 11, 2012

2012

OGP Civil Society on the driver seat
It is difficult to find a unique and 140-character-long definition of what open government means. In the end, it is all about transparency and civic participation with the final objective of creating ..

March 30, 2012

2012