Resources
Government, technology, and policy resources organized
CITIES
Our partner, the Sunlight Foundation, has been working on city open data for years, so there are many references to their resources here. This is a scaled down, stepwise version of the open data resources available from many sources. Find the full Sunlight Foundation Open Data Policy Guidelines here and Public Policy for Public Data Checklist here.
- Why do you need policy for government open data
- What is an open data policy for a city?
- How to make an open data policy into a city resolution?
- Implementing an open data policy in a city
- Index of existing city resolutions
- Government financial transparency tools
- Best practices for operating government financial transparency tools
STATES
State support of government financial transparency is critical for the success of the cities' open data implementations. Every city has financial reporting responsibilities to their state and likely to the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. This makes working with these critical oversight organizations an important part of every city's responsibilities.
- Why do you need policy for government open data
- What is an open data policy for a state? (First revision to be published in early March 2018)
- How to make an open data policy into state legislation? (First revision to be published in March 2018)
- Implementing an open data policy in a state (First revision to be published in March 2018)
- Scored Index of existing state legislation
- Report and Scored index of existing state open data portals
- Government financial transparency tools
- Best practices for operating government financial transparency tools
US FEDERAL
Our partner, the Data Coalition, has been working to implement open data at the Federal level for years, so there are many references to their resources here. The people of the Data Coalition helped to pass the The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) (PL 113-101) which provided an example to the nation of how government transparency could work on a large scale.
- Why do you need policy for government open data
- What is an open data policy for the US Federal government?
- How to make an open data policy into federal legislation? It takes an open government advocate Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
- Implementing an open data policy at the federal level
- Index of existing federal legislation. There are a few new federal open data laws in the works, but the DATA Act is it right now.
- Government financial transparency tools
- Best practices for operating government financial transparency tools
OPEN DATA PLATFORMS
This is a first generation list of open data sources and tools. As this list gets refined, it will become a checklist for the average constituent to utilize open data sources to publish reports and charts that explain problems and/or solutions.
POLICY ORGANIZATIONS
Supporting open data and government financial transparency. We want to advance their policy and project goals.
- Sunlight Foundation, Open Cities project
- US Public Interest Research Groups' Annual Government Spending Data report
- Buckeye Institute Ohio Government Salary site
- California Policy Center California Civic Performance Profiles site
- GovWiki US Government CAFRs and Audits
- Open Knowledge International
- The Frictionless Data Package
UNIVERSITIES
Active university sponsored projects and available work for university students.
COMMERCIAL COMPANIES
Government focused open data commercial companies. We want to support and better understand their software, implementation, and operations.