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Open Law : a project

Source : https://github.com/esbranson/openlaw/tree/develop

Open Law

This project provides a toolset for the conversion and analysis of legislative, regulatory and judicial documents with the Akoma Ntoso legal document standard.

Rationale

"Ignorance of the law is no excuse," as the saying goes, but a majority of citizens, nationals and residents are not informed about the law due to its inaccessibility, cost, language, complexity, volume, and rapid change. The law shapes economics and society, and thus the majority are denied the full profits of their democratic labor.

Overcoming these barriers is a necessary step for true government and political transparency. This project can help do so by:

Providing standards-based retreival and presentation of the law over the World Wide Web.

Providing a minimal toolchain for analysis of legal information.

This project is not meant to exist alone in a vacuum. By taking advantage of a global community, this is meant as a working demonstration of the possibilities of this approach.

An online Magna Carta ?

 

An online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee calls for bill of rights for web

Exclusive: web's inventor warns neutrality under sustained attack from governments and corporations

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/12/online-magna-carta-berners-lee-web

Beyond Transparency

To download it

Download BeyondTransparency

Open Data and the Future of Civic Innovation

The rise of open data in the public sector has sparked innovation, driven efficiency, and fueled economic development. And in the vein of high-profile federal initiatives like Data.gov and the White House’s Open Government Initiative, more and more local governments are making their foray into the field with Chief Data Officers, open data policies, and open data catalogs.

While still emerging, we are seeing evidence of the transformative potential of open data in shaping the future of our civic life. It’s at the local level that government most directly impacts the lives of residents—providing clean parks, fighting crime, or issuing permits to open a new business. This is where there is the biggest opportunity to use open data to reimagine the relationship between citizens and government.

Beyond Transparency is a cross-disciplinary survey of the open data landscape, in which practitioners share their own stories of what they’ve accomplished with open civic data. It seeks to move beyond the rhetoric of transparency for transparency’s sake and towards action and problem solving. Through these stories, we examine what is needed to build an ecosystem in which open data can become the raw materials to drive more effective decision-making and efficient service delivery, spur economic activity, and empower citizens to take an active role in improving their own communities.

Next Data Gov

See https://www.data.gov/

How technology can enhance political finance transparency

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Some good URL for metadata, thesauri, ontology …

http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/

http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/core-metadata/index.html

A presentation

Download 13.03.2013_Willem Van Gemert_CESAR workshop

Next US DataGov

See http://next.data.gov/

Start at: http://next.data.gov/

pick a Community like Safety: http://next.data.gov/safety

pick Resources: http://next.data.gov/safety/safety-resources/

pick the National Map: http://nationalmap.gov/viewer.html

then Click here to go to The National Map Viewer

and Download Platform!: http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/

and you finally get to the data and its display

EU Open

See http://open-data.europa.eu/

Transparency, collaboration, participation

Parliament & Citizens : a platform to co-design laws

Parliament & Citizens is a transparency and collaboration tool that allows representatives to involve citizens in drafting their bills. The platform propose a new way for citizens to involve in legislative process by co-designing laws.               

See

https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submission/parliament-citizens-a-platform-to-co-design-laws/