> How does a council scraping initiative started in the UK evolve to > influence and inform how the Victorian Government manages its information? > Planning Alerts was originally a UK service to allow people to subscribe to > be notified when there was a planning application near them regardless of > council boundaries. It's success has also been replicated (and improved) in > Australia. It seems obvious to many of us that a significant factor is that > the initial project and those that followed it were Open Source and open to > the Communities they served. How can we better demonstrate to government > the value of Open Standards and Open Data than by making it happen?
On the topic of open government, I just thought that I'd like to share a website that I've made. It's open source (AGPL-3.0+), and it tracks how every MP votes on every division in the Victorian Parliament. You can access it at http://vicvote.review _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
