From Stimulus Watch

Contents 1 Canada 1.1 Federal Level 1.2 Provincial Level 1.2.1 Ontario 1.3 Municipal Level 1.3.1 Vancouver 1.3.2 Toronto 2 Other National-Level Programmes 2.1 United States 2.2 United Kingdom 2.3 Australia 3 Reference Material 4 News Reports, Blog Postings 5 Other Resources and Sites

Canada

Federal Level

• GeoGratis from Natural Resources Canada - "Geospatial data available online at no cost and without restrictions"

Provincial Level

• Currently Community Accounts covers Newfoundland only - "providing users at all levels with a reliable source of community, regional, and provincial data" but the Senate has endorsed making it Canada-wide.

Ontario

• Daily Commercial News (CP) - Ontario government plans Web site to track stimulus spending - "The Ontario government will set up a Web site to track the $24 billion it is spending to stimulate the economy, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan says." - essays May 14, 2009

Municipal Level

Vancouver

• CBC - City of Vancouver embraces open data, standards and source - May 22, 2009

Toronto

• http://www.toronto.ca/open/

Other National-Level Programmes

United States

• http://data.gov/
  • Wikipedia - Data.gov

United Kingdom

Initiative is in formative stages following the Power of Information Task Force report.

• Twitter - Richard Stirling - @rchards
• Twitter - UK Government Director of Digital Engagement, Cabinet Office - Andrew Stott - DirDigEng
• http://blogs.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/digitalengagement/
  • blog post: Information and how to make it useful - "start a conversation (about Power of Information Task Force) recommendation 14 – a UK version of data.gov" - May 22, 2009
• Science Library Pad blog post: UK open data, open government - June 04, 2009

Australia

• Government 2.0 Taskforce
• public collaboration on Government 2.0 report

Reference Material

• ACM U.S. Public Policy Committee (USACM) - Recommendations on Open Government
• UK Power of Information Task Force ("POIT")
  • Final Report - http://poit.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/
  • POIT blog
• Wired USA How-to Wiki - Open Up Government Data
• Australia - Inquiry into Improving Access to Victorian Public Sector Information and Data (PDF)
• Tim Berners-Lee - Putting Government Data online
• Google Public Policy Blog - Our recommendations for increasing citizens' access to government information - June 22, 2009 - which is really more about how to make sure your site is crawlable, not about open data per se
• United States - Google Blog - Adding search power to public data - April 28, 2009

News Reports, Blog Postings

• Google Public Policy Blog - British Columbia leading on open data and open government - June 29, 2009
• Wired USA - And Data for All - June 18, 2009 - interview with US CIO Vivek Kundra about Data.gov
• BBC - Opening up government data (audio) - June 12, 2009 - interview with Tim Berners-Lee
• United Kingtdom - Reboot Britain Essay set - NESTA commissioned a series of short essays from leading voices on the promise of networked technologies to tackle the challenges the United Kingdom faces as a country - July 2009
• United States - The Economist - Track my tax dollars - February 5, 2009

Other Resources and Sites

• Visible Government wiki
• paper writing service
• (mainly US focus) - http://www.google.com/publicsector/ and http://googlepublicsector.blogspot.com/
• (mainly US focus) - http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/opengovdata/