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Data Journalism Awards

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Winners of the 2012 Data Journalism Awards sponsored by Google. Winners from Ukraine, Argentina, Brazil.

Living Cities

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Video collage of comments from a Ford Foundation-sponsored event on innovation and cities.

Leader: Brazil doubled high-speed access in 1 year - Boston.com

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"President Dilma Rousseff says 6 million families have signed up for low-cost high-speed Internet access through the government's four-year, $6 billion National Broadband Plan. The government aims to have 40 million households hooked up through the plan by 2014."

Lessons from Michigan’s “Innovation Fund” for Government Software | eaves.ca

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Some smart recommendations from David Eaves on how governments can save money on software and increase innovation in civic software.

Boston Review — Richard Sennett Responds to Michael J. Sandel

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"Informality in social relations is great social glue; water-cooler conversations, street-corner gossip, and illuminating chance encounters can bind us to other people as formal rules might not. Yet social science has largely neglected the study of informality, with consequences of a political sort. The think tank, spewing out clear policy, belongs to the top-down realm. In its precision of argument, it speaks the language of command. Restoring the social element to the left means honoring the mess of informality, countering the fetish of making killer assertions. If this happens, then a space opens up for the sort of participation that consists in finding out what to do together, rather than being “guided” by someone else’s version of truth."

Historic Day for Truth and Transparency | | observing brazilobserving brazil

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Greg Michener offers three points on the implementation of Brazil's FOI law on the day it went into effect.

Brazil passes information access law - Boston.com

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"Michener compared Brazil to Mexico, which passed its own information access law in 2002. It was implemented a year later at the federal level, but it took five years to include it in the constitution, extending it to other levels and branches of government, where it is still being implemented. Mexico also created an autonomous institution to govern the law's application. The Brazilian law allowed six months for preparation, and will be overseen by an existing government oversight body which also has other responsibilities, said Michener."

Girls 20 Summit | 3.5 Billion Ways to Change the World

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"The G(irls)20 Summit brings together one delegate from each G20 country, plus a representative from the European Union and the African Union. The delegates debate, discuss and design innovative ideas necessary to empower girls and women globally and present these to G20 Leaders. While the agenda is the same as the G20 leaders and focuses on economic innovation – the participants are all girls, aged 18-20."

Making budgets more transparent in oil rich states

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Albert van Zyl summarizes a new paper by Michael Ross which finds that many oil rich states that don't belong to EITI are more fiscally transparent than those countries that are members.

Program Officer, Mexico | Hewlett Foundation

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The Hewlett Foundation is hiring a program officer to be based in Mexico.

Reinventing Government with Open Data Is No Joke

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Thoughtful response by Socrata CEO Kevin Merritt to Tom Slee's diatribe against the "open data movement" with lots of real case examples from US municipal governments.

Datafest: Analyzing Campaign Finance Data

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May 19 - 20 event at Stanford University to analyze campaign finance data.

Learn Linked Data: A Linked Data blog. Helping you get to grips with RDF, SPARQL...

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PublishMyData has launched a blog with tutorials about linked data.

European Parliament to share amendment web tool as open source | Joinup

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"The IT department of the European Parliament will next year make available as open source At4am, software that helps staff at the EP write amendments. The tool could be useful for many other parliaments and other public bodies that create legislative texts. The United Nations and the parliaments in Denmark and in the United Kingdom have expressed interest in the software."

Down With Everything - NYTimes.com

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In conversation with Fukuyama, Thomas Friedman worries that greater transparency can at times lead to more political posturing and less effective government.

A new global data network on population and environment | News, views, methods, ...

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New $100 million effort to compile global data on population, land use, climate change, and more. Brazil and Malawi will be the pilot countries for the prototype.

Data.gov one of many open government platforms with usability problems, says pap...

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New paper presented at World Wide Web Foundation conference shows that most open data portals are really buckets of links to unstructured data. Estonia a notable exception.

How corrupt are politicians? In India, at least, being in parliament doesn’t pay...

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AppMyCity! Prize

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the three finalists of the New Cities Foundation AppMyCity! Prize:
CarbonDiem, CityGardens and Paris-ci La Sortie.

Land Matrix | Land Portal

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"The Land Matrix is an online public database of large-scale land deals. It provides a visualisation of records documenting land deals since 2000. The data you can explore represent about 50% of the entire data base. The remaining deals are being crosschecked and added, together with new data provided, on an on-going basis. The visualisations offer overview of the data as well as giving full access to the public database down to the level of an individual deal."

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