Open Government Data Initiative using Innovative Technology
Summary Technology advancements like social computing and cloud computing are at the very center of making the goals of a transparent, participatory and collaborative government a reality. In this environment where government transparency is in increasing demand, many government agencies publish raw data for download from their web sites. This is essential but not enough. Making that data easily accessible and queriable by people and software is critical for making it useful. The Open Government Data initiative aims to encourage and enable data publishing by government agencies and organizations in an easily consumable form. What is it?: The Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI) is an open source starter kit developed by Microsoft to help government agencies publish data that can be queried by using open web programming interfaces (API’s). Data housed in OGDI services can be accessed from a variety of client technologies such as Silverlight, Flash, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, mapping web sites, and more. OGDI enables government, business and “citizen developers” to develop real applications using government data regardless of skillset. Information about the initiative can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/opengovdata/Default.aspx Explore the sample site and learn about the OGDI Interactive Software Development Kit at http://ogdisdk.cloudapp.net.
Why Is This Idea Important?The push for openness and transparency in the government space is HUGE. This, together with the requirements that agencies have for Stimulus (ARRA) activity, has generated tremendous need and interest for all solutions that can aid in this area. OGDI contributes tangible benefits to the cause of open government data by providing an innovative, easy to use open source starter kit including sample code for developers with a wide variety of Microsoft and non-Microsoft technology skills.
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