Raum Emanuel, in three months as Chicago mayor, has done more to open City Hall to sunlight than any mayor in the country….from the Sun-Times: Information on more than 90,000 city contracts dating back to 1993 will be available and easy to download on the Internet, thanks to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s latest move to shine [...]
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How much fun is this?
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From Esther Dyson….a lot to think about here. cd
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From the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a shameless attempt to wring fees from data: Journalists have elbowed into Cuyahoga County’s dispute over the cost of CDs loaded with deeds and mortgages, arguing that the public should have the databases at cost. The county wants to charge more than $200,000 for CDs of property records, based on a state [...]
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Thanks to whoever sent me this on Twitter today (I completely forgot) because it is waaaaaaaaay past AWESOME: Simply send in a suggestion for a dataset you want online, and the state of Oregon reviews it, triages it and then puts it up if it’s public information. So cool! cd
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The state of Orego has rolled out a powerful new website that lets citizens easily customize their view of data from state agencies and comment right on the site, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services announced Tuesday. The website, http://data.oregon.gov/, also lets visitors interact with state records, create their own charts, graphs, calendars and maps, and [...]
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