2013-10-08

This week: Three points for effective use of open data

zunia.org - The open government and open data movements are all about empowering citizens, users, and movers-and-shakers by increasing their access information, data and their government. This week we have three major points about how to best take advantage of the doors that opening.Number one comes from The Guardian’s Policy Hub: involve the public in open policymaking, not just in the implementation. Many of the new open government initiatives focus around service delivery, but much less has been centered on opening the process for forming the policy in the first place.