Comments on: Example Policy/Principle Statements? http://redliberals.ca/2009/01/03/example-policyprinciple-statements%e2%80%8f/ Red Liberal Web Log Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:41:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Craig Hubley http://redliberals.ca/2009/01/03/example-policyprinciple-statements%e2%80%8f/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Craig Hubley Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:28:38 +0000 http://redliberals.ca/?p=40#comment-2 The UK government runs competitions to see which public data transparency applications to fund: http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/ideas/ They were convinced a few years ago that allowing government employees or contractors to do the job was a bad idea, that it would invariably lead to opacity on some important data, so they decided to fund outsiders, preferably volunteer-run organizations that would have no vested interest to protect. A US example is the "Apps for Democracy" contest: http://www.istrategylabs.com/government-20-the-rise-of-citizen-innovation-through-open-data/ In Canada, there's now finally a Parliamentary Budget Office and at least a couple of political parties advocating public domain or share-alike data licensing, and free software or at least open source for applications funded by government. Also some best practice exchanges like the http://infraguide.ca though using primitive (PDF) technology. The UK government runs competitions to see which public data transparency applications to fund:
http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk/call/ideas/

They were convinced a few years ago that allowing government employees or contractors to do the job was a bad idea, that it would invariably lead to opacity on some important data, so they decided to fund outsiders, preferably volunteer-run organizations that would have no vested interest to protect.

A US example is the “Apps for Democracy” contest:
http://www.istrategylabs.com/government-20-the-rise-of-citizen-innovation-through-open-data/

In Canada, there’s now finally a Parliamentary Budget Office and at least a couple of political parties advocating public domain or share-alike data licensing, and free software or at least open source for applications funded by government. Also some best practice exchanges like the http://infraguide.ca though using primitive (PDF) technology.

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