Tim O'Reilly on Open Government

Re:Tim O'Reilly on Open Government by adlq on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @03:06PM (#5246706)

I find that ressources on open source governance is pretty scarce on the Internet and it surprises me that there is no proper "initiative" or "think tank" to develop this idea.

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Re:Tim O'Reilly on Open Government by pjungwir on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @03:43PM (#5246929)

Not saying it's easy, but if you want raw data, there is a lot out there.

    FEC filings from the last few decades: http://www.fec.gov/data/
    Bills and legislators: http://www.govtrack.us/
    Lots of data, but hard to access: http://votesmart.org/
    A nice tool/repository for extracting and sharing data: https://scraperwiki.com/

This is just the tip of the iceberg. I'd be happy to talk with anyone else about finding what they need.

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Re:Tim O'Reilly on Open Government by saraid216 on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @03:07PM (#5246718)

Would this help? https://github.com/oreillymedia/open_government

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Re:Tim O'Reilly on Open Government by yuletide666 on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @08:14PM (#5248336)

Lots of great work going on here: http://codeforamerica.org

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