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Tag: opendata
The Personal Genome Project is a vision and coalition of projects across the world dedicated to creating public genome, health, and trait data. Sharing data is critical to scientific progress, but has been hampered by traditional research practices. The PGP approach is to invite willing participants to publicly share their personal data for the greater good.
i just volunteered.
this quickly seems to become the place that matters, with google, facebook etc on board
use technological tools to make government less beholden to special interest groups and lobbyists and promote citizen participation in government decision-making.
his trade policy may be misguided, but this could offset that and have many positive effects
We are suing the Long Island Rail Road because they have failed to comply with the Freedom Of Information Law, rejecting our request for their schedule data in a digital table format. 3 times we have asked for LIRR’s schedule information in this format, and 3 times they have denied our request. For such a simple and easy request their obstinance is confounding. So now my lawyers and I are taking them to court to MAKE them give it to us.
the problem with FOIA is that agencies can respond with crap like “here are our schedules in pdf, have fun”
This isn’t about Google at all. The issues Google Transit raises merely go to the core of what we do with local public transport data. This is all part of a much wider data liberalisation/control agenda. In the case of public transport information, there are real benefits to data liberalisation, even if that means there is no way to recover the costs of gathering the data
hopefully this will force the agencies to make their transit data freely available, as some enlightened ones like BART already do
the OECD is thinking of creating a wiki for the presentation and discussion of international, national and local initiatives aimed at developing indicators of societal progress.
BIG win for the dataweb
get your data out of flickr, myspace etc. maybe they will do yahoo mail too?
Publishing the city’s operational data directly to the web, for everyone to see and analyze, with the explicit goal of making the delivery of government services transparent and accountable, was and is an astonishingly bold move.
the wiki approach is nice, but how will they scale data acquisition? not everyone has a sailboat like venter to scoop up new species from the oceans.
how yahoo is holding users hostage with their crappy product
Gregor J. Rothfuss 