Sentences with phrase «open government initiative»

A priority Open Government initiative for the Administration, data.gov allows the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the federal government.

The President's Open Government initiative represents a significant shift in the way federal agencies conduct business and engage the public.

In its first Open Government Plan, the Department of Transportation (DOT) recognized that the Open Government initiative is about more than adopting new tools and emerging technologies — it is about effecting real policy and internal culture change to ensure that our Department truly becomes even more transparent, participatory, and collaborative, both internally and externally.

A New York City Council candidate who had made his name as a technology consultant and spearheaded an open government initiative several years ago found parts of his website copied by another City Council candidate in a different borough, as Politicker first reported.

On the legislative and policy front, Bill C - 11 has passed the committee stage and seems likely to race toward royal assent by the summer, last week's unveiling of the telecom policy (including policies on the forthcoming spectrum auction and foreign ownership) puts to rest a major issue associated with the digital economy strategy, the CRTC recently published its final anti-spam regulations with Industry Canada expected to follow with theirs shortly, the open government initiative has been making considerable progress, and Government House Leader Peter Van Loan told the House of Commons on Thursday that Bill C - 12 (the PIPEDA reform bill) may finally move forward next week.

Doubling of the Treasury Board's budget for open data and open government initiatives, providing an additional $ 11.5 million over five years for these activities.

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Bill de Blasio, as Public Advocate, launched several notable Open Government initiatives under his Transparency and Accountability section of his website.

DOT has adopted a comprehensive lifecycle management approach to help plan and implement the business process transformations required to achieve the Open Government initiatives.

By adopting an approach that looks holistically at the current technology, policy, and cultural environments of the agency and actively soliciting and incorporating public feedback, DOT is creating a plan that will enable the agency to align Open Government initiatives with strategic objectives, mitigate the risks associated with transparency, and improve performance by embracing the use of emerging communications technologies to increase citizen involvement.

Although the intention of this note is to guide and facilitate the development of linked open data for open government initiatives Hanson considers this W3C paper to be, ``... one of the best and most concise guides available on the subject of publishing linked data, and though it focuses on publishing government linked data, the project phases described could be applied to any type of linked data project.»

Not exact matches

Our new Open Government Plan 4.1 includes several high - profile agency projects and initiatives that utilize Open Government principles and techniques to further the agency's mission.

Although first reported in a local paper, it was left to BC - based The Tyee to break open this scandal, which includes a concerted federal government cover - up of information about the TFWP, including a new TFWP initiative called the Canada - Alberta pilot project — one that has been left almost completely unregulated and which likely paved the way for the dismissal of those 270 tradespeople.

This builds on steps taken by Governor Cuomo to open the doors of government to New Yorkers through his Open NY initiatopen the doors of government to New Yorkers through his Open NY initiatOpen NY initiative.

Opening the 2nd African Mobile and ICT Expo (MOBEX 2016), the president said «one of government's initiatives and infrastructural investment that would create opportunity for sustainable opportunity and entrepreneurial employment for 10,000 of our young people in the digital eco system is the development of the BPO center near the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange.

Reinvent Albany applauds Governor Cuomo for launching Open Budget NY, which is an important step for open government in New York, and a smart first step in his newly announced Open NY initiatOpen Budget NY, which is an important step for open government in New York, and a smart first step in his newly announced Open NY initiatopen government in New York, and a smart first step in his newly announced Open NY initiatOpen NY initiative.

Called Open New York and culled from his list of campaign promises, the initiative aims to «harness technology to show how taxpayer money is being spent, showcase the great resources of the state, and foster productive engagement with government,» Cuomo promised in his prepared remarks.

From David King in this morning's Gotham Gazette, Technology Helping to Pry Open Government: Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to unveil a major open data initiatives as early as this week — Sunshine Week — coming on the heels of the announcement earlier this year ofOpenBudget.ny.gov, a portal that allows citizens to look up the state's finanOpen Government: Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to unveil a major open data initiatives as early as this week — Sunshine Week — coming on the heels of the announcement earlier this year ofOpenBudget.ny.gov, a portal that allows citizens to look up the state's finanopen data initiatives as early as this week — Sunshine Week — coming on the heels of the announcement earlier this year ofOpenBudget.ny.gov, a portal that allows citizens to look up the state's finances.

Congratulations to Governor Cuomo and his staff for his March 11th Executive Order instructing state agencies and authorities controlled by the governor to «Use technology to promote transparency, improve government performance, and enhance citizen engagement» via a new open data initiative and website.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that 64 more local governments across the state have signed up to share their data on open.ny.gov, a new and comprehensive data transparency website — just three days after its launch at the start of Sunshine Week, a national initiative designed to raise awareness about the importance of open government.

New York State's open data initiative is particularly innovative and interesting from a national perspective, because it makes the state's data website available to local governments as a resource they can use to make their data easier for themselves and the public to find and use.»

Governor Cuomo made a big show last week of marking Sunshine Week - a national initiative launched in 2005 by the American Society of News Editors to highlight the importance of open government and the dangers of excessive and unnecessary secrecy.

«I call on the charter revision members to support this initiative and then bring it to the voters this November, so we are ready in 2021 to have a fair, open and inclusive democratic primary as our entire city government will change,» Stringer continued.

In his opening address, Dr Abdul - Hamid reiterated government's commitment in sustaining policies and initiatives that it has started, hailing them as the best - ever, compared to those implemented by former governments.

Classical 100, the new, government ‑ backed initiative from music exam board ABRSM, Classic FM and record company Decca Classics, was introduced by ABRSM strategic director Lincoln Abbotts: the resource is built around 100 recordings of classical music pieces which teachers can draw upon in lessons, school assemblies and other school activities, alongside which there is information about the composer and stories behind the music — it is free to use and open to all schools in the UK.

Proponents of open resources have enlisted the help of the federal government, which has launched a multi-pronged initiative called #GoOpen.

The initiative is threefold: First, the government is developing the Learning Registry, an online searchable repository of open resources.

In the 2014 Open Government Plan, we have advanced our commitment to openness and engagement by focusing our efforts on new initiatives and by supporting activities that maximize efficiency, increase effectiveness, and spur economic development.

The following pages describe DOT's point of view on the links between Open Government and public engagement (Chapter 1); approach to developing the fourth Open Government Plan (Chapter 2); initiatives and activities, including our flagship initiative (Chapter 3); and retrospective review of our previous Open Government Plans (Chapter 4).

Through the process described in Chapter 2, DOT identified fourteen activities, grouped into three initiatives (plus a flagship initiative) for inclusion in the 2016 Open Government Plan.

The DOT believes that open data initiatives improve the effectiveness of transportation decisions by making DOT's extensive data available and usable to all levels of government, the private sector, and the general public.

The article listed many of the regulations and initiatives that the Chinese government is putting into place, which will hopefully be seen by publishers as a way to open the doors to digital publishing rather than stamping it out.

As a participant in the city's open - government initiative, Austin Animal Center has released around sixty data sets and data views for the public to access.

Austin, Texas launched an open - government initiative in 2012, with the goals to support transparency and to encourage the development of new analysis and visualization applications based on data collected and held by city agencies.

The city of Sacramento, California also has an open - government initiative, which was launched in 2013 to promote transparency and openness, and to make public data easily accessible by citizens.

The training of artists, which had long been weak, began to be improved by private and government initiatives in the 18th century, and greatly expanded in the 19th, and public exhibitions and later the opening of museums brought art to a wider public, especially in London.

The real news coming out of these talks is what happened outside the negotiating halls: massive protests at Germany's open pit coal mines with Pacific islanders standing in solidarity, governments joining a new initiative to power past coal, Norway's push to ditch oil and gas investments, and the emergence of non-state actors as a powerful force for change.

A new initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank, the government of Honduras, and the Climate Investment Fund is helping to replace open - fire cookstoves in Honduras with «ecostoves,» which use less wood and emit less smoke.

It builds on the World Bank's Open Data initiative and seeks to: improve disaster and climate change resilience; ensure streamlined data sharing and collaboration among government agencies, the private sector, academia and civil society; and encourage data collaboration with humanitarian efforts.

The initiative will be available to all local governments and municipalities, who will have the opportunity to sign up and enrollment will be open before the end of 2017.

My view is that the federal government should approach the use of new resources for important economic initiatives with an open mind.

Dr. Wisner adds that it's important that initiatives to recognize and relieve the plight of displaced people not let national governments «off the hook for their failure to help prevent land degradation and facilitate land restoration and, in some cases, for their collusion with owners of forest companies, open mines, and large cattle ranches in practices that degrade land.»

Last Thursday, the Edmonton Law Libraries Association welcomed Mark Diner, Chief Advisor, Open Government and Transparency, Service Alberta to give a presentation on Alberta's Open Data initiative.

The Alberta Open Data initiative is supported by an Open Government Licence.

It is Sunshine Week, a national initiative focused on the importance of open government and freedom of information.

By John Moore Published on TechTarget.com August 2014Legislation and initiatives for open government have yielded greater expectations for data availability.

Legislation and initiatives for open government have yielded greater expectations for data availability.

«I am proud that our government is supporting this great initiative that will open doors for people who would otherwise not have access to justice.»

But I'll be back, and I suggest you, too, persevere, because, if, as ReadWriteWeb opines, even the U.S. government open access data initiative data.gov has whole lot to learn from the Brits, our government desperately needs to see how those who «get it» are engaging their citizens; and our informed readers need to do what they can to cause it to get it, too.