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6 Governments Who Set Their Data Free

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We're seeing exciting trends in governments making data more available ? Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. But local and state governments are also setting their data free. One suggestion, Vancouver: add a crime map. Tell us in the comments.

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Start 2017 by Building Your Tech Skills and Community

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Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Washington, District of Columbia: Online Advocacy Strategies — Mobilizing for Action. Victoria, British Columbia: Creating Integrated Campaigns — Multichannel Marketing in a Multifaceted World.

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Is There a Community of #Tech4Good Activists Waiting for You?

Tech Soup

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Seattle, Washington: Governance Responsibilities for Nonprofit Boards. Vancouver, British Columbia: Design for Nondesigners.

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Mr. Manager, Tear down this wall!

Forum One

Speakers came from Stephenson Strategies, DC government, NPR, and the Sunlight Foundation. Spawned by exaggerated fears, governments and content publishers distrusted their constituents or audiences and would only release information once it had been filtered, cleansed, or massaged. government to run a “ Show Us a Better Way ” contest.

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Loco for Local: Regional Examples of Open Government

Forum One

The event convened almost 300 passionate people, all coming together for a common goal: to share knowledge on how to use new technologies to make our government transparent, accountable and meaningfully accessible to the public. I was pleasantly surprised by the number of people interested or involved in local open government projects.