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Have any of you submitted anything to the following calls? Some of you have some intersting case studies to contribute and I sent the open data link from datalibre.ca for their inventory. If you see anything missing in it let me know. Cheers t ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[hidden email]> Date: Wed, May 29, 2013 at 3:14 PM Subject: open-government Digest, Vol 39, Issue 37 To: [hidden email] Send open-government mailing list submissions to [hidden email] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-government or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [hidden email] You can reach the person managing the list at [hidden email] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of open-government digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Call for case studies: community groups and individuals using open data (Sarah Borwick) 2. A list of transparency NGOs now live and needs your contribution! (Julia Keser?) 3. Re: Call for case studies: community groups and individuals using open data (Zander Furnas) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 13:29:45 +0100 From: Sarah Borwick <[hidden email]> Subject: [open-government] Call for case studies: community groups and individuals using open data To: [hidden email] Message-ID: <CAANfjmvm_=WVay9mC85z+u1tC9sUj8+K-HcN=[hidden email]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi all, Jonathan Gray has very kindly let me temporarily hijack this list to ask you all for your thoughts and advice on a research project Involve ( www.involve.org.uk) are conducting on open data, participation and democracy. Here is a brief summary of what we are doing: A reasonable body of research has been produced into open data and its impact on transparency and accountability, however, relatively little is known about whether publishing government data has empowered, or is empowering citizens, to hold public bodies to account and improve public services, as intended by government. We are interested then, when it is the case that people are using and producing data, in whether the government is then engaging with those citizens and taking their ideas on board. Put simply, we want to understand more from both sides about the level of engagement going on with open data. I have blogged about this on our website, if you would like more information: ( http://www.involve.org.uk/open-data-participation-and-democracy-a-call-for-case-studies/) What I want to ask you all then, is whether you, or individuals and community groups you know of, are using open data to hold public bodies to account. If you do know of any examples, no matter how minor/tenuous, I would very much appreciate your thoughts. My email address is [hidden email], and my direct line is 0207 336 9443. Thank you very much for your assistance and I look forward to hopefully hearing from some of you. Kind regards Sarah -- Sarah Borwick Research Intern - Involve t: <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%29%2020%20733%2069%20444" value="+442073369444">+44 (0) 20 733 69 444 e: [hidden email] w: www.involve.org.uk Registered Charity No - 1130568 ** Check out our new publication: 'From Fairy Tale to Reality - Dispelling the Myths around Citizen Engagement' < http://www.involve.org.uk/from-fairy-tale-to-reality/> www.participationcompass.org <http://www.participationcompass.org> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-government/attachments/20130529/351b3f5d/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 12:04:22 -0400 From: Julia Keser? <[hidden email]> Subject: [open-government] A list of transparency NGOs now live and needs your contribution! To: [hidden email], "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]>, "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]>, [hidden email], [hidden email], [hidden email] Message-ID: <[hidden email]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" (Sorry for cross-posting.) http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/05/29/transparency-advocates-from-all-around-the-world/ Transparency advocates from all around the world<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/05/29/transparency-advocates-from-all-around-the-world/> by J?lia Keseru <http://sunlightfoundation.com/people/jkeseru/>May 29, 2013, 11:54 a.m. A few months ago, we embarked on a journey to create a repository of civil society organizations working around transparency and open data issues from all around the world. With our annual TransparencyCamp<http://transparencycamp.org/>having evolved into a significant hub for open government advocates alongside Sunlight?s growing involvement in the global<http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/international/> and municipal <http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/local/> open data movement, it seemed a logical next step to map the landscape of like-minded folks and create a single spreadsheet that tracks local and international players in the field. Besides simply locating open data activists, coders, hacker groups, transparency advocates, anti-corruption research institutes, think tanks and even some government-led transparency projects from a vide variety of countries, Sunlight tried to filter information about relevant actors by area of operation, issues covered and the actual approach. Crowdsourcing the whole project would have definitely made our job easier. However our experience shows that empty spreadsheets do not facilitate engagement so we spent some time collecting that vast of amount of information and we now decided to make it publicly available. The initial goal was to create a repository of all the groups who could be possible partners in Sunlight?s municipal and international projects but we had to realize that there?s an increasing demand coming from the open government community to have access to that information so we eventually decided to share our resource with the wider public. Such a pledge is always endless and the repository is never considered complete but instead of sitting on the information any longer, we are now opening up the process and ask for the community?s help to verify or correct the data in the sheet and add missing organizations or projects. Our approach was rather experimental and we did not seek perfectionism so a lot of information is missing or incorrect but it's your turn to contribute! The spreadsheet is now public - though not editable - and available here<https://docs.google.com/a/sunlightfoundation.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoQuErjcV2a0dF85QTRRSEFtR3pfcjN4VHdwLVYzSXc#gid=0> : *Contribute* We have compiled a repository of over 500 organizations from countries listed in alphabetic order. At the end of the sheet, you'll find a couple of organizations without a country code - mostly regional networks or international organizations - but if you feel they should be listed under a certain country, please let us know. Though amazingly long, the list is far from complete. If your project or organization is missing, don't even think of having hard feelings but send us the relevant info and we will update the repository! If you work with (technology-driven) transparency or open data issues and your project is not on the list, please contact us [hidden email] and send your contact information, a link to your project, area of operation (country or region), a few keywords for the topics you cover and the approach of the project. If you are enlisted but information is missing or incorrect, let us know! We also encourage everyone to dive into the list and use it as a resource for research or a space for inspiration. *Google group* If you want to know more about the international work of Sunlight and our partner groups, please join our new International Google Group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sunlight-international! *Many thanks to Alisha Green, Matt Rumsey, Matej Kurian, Melissa Ortiz Masso and Madeline Magnuson for their contribution to the spreadsheet!* -- J?lia Keser? 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URL: <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-government/attachments/20130529/6e3556f9/attachment-0001.htm> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 15:14:34 -0400 From: Zander Furnas <[hidden email]> Subject: Re: [open-government] Call for case studies: community groups and individuals using open data To: [hidden email] Message-ID: <CA+wA4b2ZFSD9YjJHn6yuFGw5VRhNbDUmz=_[hidden email]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Hi Sarah & others, I posted a quick response to your post, but wanted to pass it around here too: It?s great to see that Involve will be doing some case study work around these important questions. I think there is a real desire for this kind of impact evaluation and data use research the Open Gov/ Open Data/ Transparency community right now. I?m a researcher at the Sunlight Foundation, working on a case study project of our own that we recently began in January:http://sunlightfoundation.com/casestudies/. We are specifically focusing on technology enabled transparency policies, looking at disclosures and platforms made available by governments in a variety of issue areas (things like procurement, political spending, asset disclosure etc.). You can read more about the thinking behind our research here <http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/02/12/whytransparencymatters/>. Would you be interested in scheduling some time to chat about our respective research, and how we can learn from and benefit from each other?s thinking? Cheers, Alexander Furnas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sarah Borwick <[hidden email]> Date: Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:29 AM Subject: [open-government] Call for case studies: community groups and individuals using open data To: [hidden email] Hi all, Jonathan Gray has very kindly let me temporarily hijack this list to ask you all for your thoughts and advice on a research project Involve ( www.involve.org.uk) are conducting on open data, participation and democracy. Here is a brief summary of what we are doing: A reasonable body of research has been produced into open data and its impact on transparency and accountability, however, relatively little is known about whether publishing government data has empowered, or is empowering citizens, to hold public bodies to account and improve public services, as intended by government. We are interested then, when it is the case that people are using and producing data, in whether the government is then engaging with those citizens and taking their ideas on board. Put simply, we want to understand more from both sides about the level of engagement going on with open data. I have blogged about this on our website, if you would like more information: ( http://www.involve.org.uk/open-data-participation-and-democracy-a-call-for-case-studies/ ) What I want to ask you all then, is whether you, or individuals and community groups you know of, are using open data to hold public bodies to account. If you do know of any examples, no matter how minor/tenuous, I would very much appreciate your thoughts. My email address is [hidden email], and my direct line is 0207 336 9443. Thank you very much for your assistance and I look forward to hopefully hearing from some of you. Kind regards Sarah -- Sarah Borwick Research Intern - Involve t: <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%29%2020%20733%2069%20444" value="+442073369444">+44 (0) 20 733 69 444 e: [hidden email] w: www.involve.org.uk Registered Charity No - 1130568 ** Check out our new publication: 'From Fairy Tale to Reality - Dispelling the Myths around Citizen Engagement' < http://www.involve.org.uk/from-fairy-tale-to-reality/> www.participationcompass.org <http://www.participationcompass.org> -- Alexander Furnas Research Fellow | Sunlight Foundation <http://sunlightfoundation.com> @AlexanderFurnas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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