From May 21st to May 26th, city of Nantes in France will host an Open Data Week.

Three main conferences (national, european and international scientific conference) are organized by FING and sponsored by local administrations already involved in open data*.

International open data community is warmly invited, not only to attend the open data week, but also to suggest your own animations, workshops, conferences !

Check what we've been preparing for you

Czech government agreed on the final Action plan for Czech commitments for the Open Government Partnership. The final draft has been prepared along with a pool of NGOs and active individuals and has been accepted on the last governmental session on Wednesday. This blogpost presents the basic outlines of the Czech action plan along with some comments and thoughts.

I use OpenSource Drupal and Google Maps API to make my project http://findtoilet.dk/ and people can download data in RSS, XML, CSV, KML and MAP http://beta.findtoilet.dk/feeds/municipality and for instance use it for Apps for Smartphones or a lot of other things.

Would be great if the other EU countries would make the same. I mean for finding public toilets when one crosses the borders.

I have made this site https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O7uJQXbn-2DWBqv1zC7ORwIGfQ4wd-82gd-N... where it's possible for ALL to make new toilet, update, delete and so.

Door budget monitoring kunnen burgers, communities en andere organisaties zicht krijgen op begrotingsprocessen en de besteding van middelen. Met behulp van deze methodiek kan een dialoog plaatsvinden tussen burgers onderling en tussen organisaties en overheid over prioritering, behoeftes en aanpak van problemen.

Op 1 januari 2012 begon het experiment Budgetmonitoring in de Indische Buurt. Burgercommunities en andere actieve groepen in de buurt maken een agenda en een buurtplan voor de Indische Buurt.

Meer informatie:

www.budgetmonitoringib.nl

www.budgetmonitoring.nl

Recently, the European Commission initiated the process of revision of the European Directive on Re-use of Public Sector Information.

One of its main objectives is to provide a general authorisation to re-use to citizens and businesses who want to make use of public sector information for the creation of new services, generating economic activity and enhancing the transparency.

With a double objective of promoting open data towards a "non tech" population and collect information for research purpose, Orange labs (Orange France Telecom R&D) together with FING, OWNI, Everydatalab, lunches an online quizz :
http://app.owni.fr/ou-habitez-vous-vraiment/

Players can confront their own intuitive perception of their territory with the information provided by open public data. And start realizing how useful open data can be !

(website only in French)

During the Open Government Data Camp on 20 October 2011, Jeanne Holm (Data.gov) and Paul Suijkerbuijk (data.overheid.nl) led a workshop about sharing experiences and ideas on open data portals. It was attended by a number of data portal managers from different countries and by others planning to set up data portals in their own jurisdictions.