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Vote now for your favorite app in NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2013

In April 20-21, over 9,000 people around the world participated in the known galaxy's largest mass collaboration ever - the International Space Apps Challenge. Now it's time to recognize the incredible work they have created. Visit spaceappschallenge.org to vote for the People's Choice award winner, and check back later this month to find our which projects our judges have choosen as global winners.

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D C on May 14, 2013

Second Open Government Summit hosted by Zaizi Challenges UK public sector to put users at the center of the IT universe

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The second Open Gov Summit took place in April 25th at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, in the heart of Westminster. London-based open source consultancy Zaizi hosted the fully-booked Summit, which attracted IT professionals from central and local government and third sector organisations. The Summit revealed encouraging progress for open source in the public sector, helped by the government’s decision to adopt open standards last November. This year’s debate also emphasised the more...

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D C on May 14, 2013

Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2013

donau-uni.ac.at –

The international Conference for e-Democracy and Open Government brings together e-democracy, e-participation and open government specialists working in academia, politics, government and business to critically analyse the innovations, issues, ideas and challenges in the networked societies of the digital age. The CeDEM represents a continuation and development of the E-democracy conference initiated in 2007. The Centre for E-Governance at the Danube University Krems has been organising more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

Google transparency report 2013: find out what the world's governments want to know about you

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Which governments wanted Google to remove content - and asked for information on web users this year so far? Why are UK requests for content to be removed up by 6%? And how does the US compare?

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Moushumi Biswas on April 30, 2013

Open Source Tech is Driving Big Changes in Government

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Open source technology is now visible everywhere in government from the basic operating systems that federal computers run on to the blogs, websites and social media tools they use to communicate with the public. Red Hat, which helps companies manage, maintain and secure open source tools, including the operating system Linux, has been at the forefront of much of this adoption.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 30, 2013

The open parliament in the age of the internet : can the people now collaborate with legislatures in lawmaking?

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This work seeks to address those questions and evaluate other international experiences and experiments designed to achieve the same ends. The book is based on a study of two particular cases where parliamentary bodies designed and implemented participatory digital processes, namely, the e-Democracy Program developed by the Brazilian House of Representatives, and the Virtual Senator Program developed by the Chilean Senate. The text unfolds in the form of a systematic analysis of institutional more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 29, 2013

Government Spending Watch: A New Initiative You Really Need to Know About

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Take the Millennium Development Goals – the basis for innumerable aid debates, campaigns, and negotiations. A large chunk of the MDG agenda concerns the size and quality of public spending – on health, education, water, sanitation etc. So obviously, the first thing we need is to know how much governments are spending on these things, right?

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Moushumi Biswas on April 24, 2013

Increasing Citizen Partnership in Local Governance: Latin America

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Local citizen participation has long been acknowledged as a useful tool to enhance public policies: it improves policies’ responsiveness to the population’s needs and quality as citizens make creative and innovative proposals to solve development challenges. In the last two decades, countries such as Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru have developed new mechanisms to foster citizen participation at the local level by creating citizen participation bodies, or what we term here more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 24, 2013

Brazil ́s Action Plan within the Open Government Partnership

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Brazil’s participation in the Open Government Partnership (OGP) reflects the country’s commitment to strengthen transparency of Government actions. Following this introduction is a self-assessment report of the initiatives undertaken by the country in its first Action Plan within the OGP. This is a second version of the report, developed out of recommendations from the Independent Review Mechanism of OGP and comments from society after the publication of the initial report, which was available more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 24, 2013

Re-imagining India with new data

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Imagine a presentation that shows how millions of dollars of World Bank money are operating in one area of one Indian city alone. At the Open Data Camp in Bangalore, held over the weekend of 2-3 March, this visualisation of data from the World Bank project in Bommanahalli, Bangalore got everyone’s attention, in part because of the sheer monitoring opportunity the data afforded citizens. Getting data and getting it clean was the theme of this two-day camp that afforded a fascinating glimpse of more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 24, 2013

Opening Open Data

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The author's contribution to the 'Open Data on the Web' workshop is to add the perspective of a graphic and information designer, data visualisation expert, maker and inventor. This paper briefly outlines the author's viewpoint on Open Data, mainly arguing that it is important to put it in a human context. According to the author, designers are a significant part of the Open Data movement. The author outlines which tools should be provided to them in order to make meaningful and relevant Open more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 24, 2013

State of e-Governance in Maharashtra 2013

maharashtra.gov.in –

Maharashtra is committed towards using e-Governance to provide integrated, efficient and transparent service delivery to the citizens in a systematic and holistic manner. The key goals that Maharashtra wants to achieve through the above vision are: Substantially improve delivery of all government services and creating eServices without borders.Enabling Transparent, Open and Inclusive Governance.Developing cost-efficient and streamlined GovernanceEnhancing People participation in Policy more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 23, 2013

E-Governance in Socio - Economic Activities

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The paper emphasizes the issues of the local governance in its transition to the knowledge society and the web based processes of advanced interactive web solutions aiming at designing and implementing coherent regional sustainable strategies. The innovative e-Governance approach creates an opportunity to the government for changing the process of the sustainable strategy design and implementation, from a system-oriented to an actor-driven one. This process helps in improving information and more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 23, 2013

Strengthening e-Governance in the North-South Local Government Co-operation Programme

The aim of this study is to provide the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities (AFLRA) and other stakeholders with information and documentation to clarify E-Government concepts and strengthen the understanding of both Northern and Southern partners about the e-readiness of the Southern Local Governments(LGs).The specific objectives of the study are: To provide basic knowledge on the concept of E-Governance, its use and importance to society.To provide information on the efforts more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 23, 2013

Did the Kenyan Elections Really Need 3 Maps, 7 Phone Numbers, and Several Web Forms?

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We all knew it. We saw this coming in Haiti and talked about it in Egypt, when 5 Ushahidi maps popped out the day before the elections. But the Kenyan elections are somehow different, and the reason why they are, is that the possible outcome is indeed a civil unrest that could bring the country years back to 2007.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 23, 2013

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