The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University unveiled MyFairElection.com, a new crowd sourced election…
The state of Illinois has launched a new technology challenged aimed at helping local governments expand the amount of data available to the public. The…
The Civic Data Challenge, a partnership between the National Conference on Citizenship and the Knight Foundation has announced the winners of its challenge to build…
On the heels of its open data partnership with Junar, the city of Palo Alto, California has launched another open data partnership, this time focused…
The Mayor of Somerville, Massachusets, Joseph A. Curtatone launched New England’s first Socrata-powered open data cloud. Socrata already powers open data portals in some of…
The city of Palo Alto is working to become an open government community through a new partnership with technology firm Junar. Junar offers an open…
Madison, Wisconsin is considering a local measure that would open up more of the city’s data to developers. On Tuesday, a piece of legislation will…
Big data is poised to be the next big market for vendors of all stripes. Thanks to the proliferation of cheaper storage and cloud services,…
Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter has signed an executive order to establish an Open Data policy, which will provide increased access and will enhance the…
The state of Iowa, through its OpenIowa open data project, is launching StartupIowa, a project for civic developers to work with the state’s open data…
