Consultation on anti-corruption resource package This document summarises an initial plan for the development of a companion resource to the International Open Data Charter, and invites comments, feedback and contributions to shape the draft resource, to be developed over the first half of 2016. You will find a number of consultation questions (Q) in … Read more
A few days ago, Tom Steinberg—the founder and former director of mySociety—wrote a fascinating piece on power that was meant for people developing civic technology. In a post on Medium, Tom clearly describes the nature of power as it relates to technology and implored civic technologists to think more directly about how shifts in power … Read more
People who work in digital technologies don’t tend to talk a lot about power, except perhaps in relation to our ever-depleting smartphones. But if your goal in deploying modern technologies is even partly to make the world a better place, rather than solely increase the size of your Exit, sooner or later you’ll need to … Read more
Our next Patchwork hack night will be on December 10, and will be co-hosted with our friends at The Cube in Athens, Greece. Please join us! GitHubbers @petros, @fernandez, @justinmccormick, @sanicki, @stevecat, and @jdennes, as well as local community mentors, will be on hand to walk you through the Hello World tutorial, answer your questions, … Read more
The European Commission has adopted an ambitious new Circular Economy Package to help European businesses and consumers to make the transition to a stronger and more circular economy where resources are used in a more sustainable way. The proposed actions will contribute to “closing the loop” of product lifecycles through greater recycling and re-use, and … Read more
2015 was a year of progress for government transparency — however, there’s still much work to be done. As 2015 winds to a close, we can look back on a year of success stories and failures when it comes to transparency in government. At the start of the year, the federal government began releasing its … Read more
OGP is much more than Action Plans, Commitments, Policies and Best Practices. OGP is a powerful network of motivated people with a common goal, to drive a revolution around the world to make governments more open, accountable and responsive to citizens. As the case of my country Greece shows, this common goal is of even … Read more
There are around 60 million streetlights in Europe and most of them have been lighting up the roads for at least 25 years. These lights are usually not energy efficient, which accounts for between 20% and 50% of local government energy bills. In this context, the Humble Lamppost, a subgroup of the Integrated Infrastructures & … Read more
The French administration is still a large enabler of Free Software in France. According to a survey published by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC , CXP group), a French consulting company, the public sector is seen as an opportunity for Free Software for 71% of the more than 100 companies surveyed in this study, mostly members … Read more
Both types of data can transform the world, but when government turns big data into open data it’s especially powerful Big data and the new phenomenon open data are closely related but they’re not the same. Open data brings a perspective that can make big data more useful, more democratic, and less threatening. While big … Read more
