So, that was government data.

Let's start with government data.

Open in Data View

Open CSV Data File

Our data is open.

Could not open data for exporting.

That is a nice sideline of open government.

But it's also an open data initiative.

This is U.K. government data, a completely independent site,

Not just for transparency, yeah transparency in government is important, but that data this is the data from all the government departments

Let me be very clear, and perhaps controversial, that open government is not about transparent government.

The U.S. Government made an attempt to open Japan's doors.

So, that's happening in the U.K. with U.K. government data.

Could not open or create PC data store.

Could not open or create Palm data store.

Simply throwing data over the transom doesn't change how government works.

And we see lots of examples of these innovators using open government data, not simply to make apps, but then to make companies and to hire people to build them working with the government.

We could talk about government data, enterprise data is really important, there's scientific data, there's personal data, there's weather data, there's data about events, there's data about talks, and there's news and there's all kinds of stuff.

So, for example, city departments can open up transit data.

Open Street Map is an open database of all geographic data, primarily of streets from across the world.

So when we wanted to create our Open Government policy, what did we do?

We wanted, naturally, to ask public sector employees how we should open up government.

Paul Clarke, in the U.K. government, blogged, Oh, I've just got some raw data.

Whatever you've been doing, whether you've just been chanting, Raw data now! or you've been putting government or scientific data online,

So together with Zeit Online and Open Data City, I did this.

Like Wikipedia, which is an open encyclopedia, it is an open database where anyone can contribute to the data.

The government is unable to take the risks required to open up this precious frontier.

Let's say that if we are working with open data, Open Street Map is the most natural option to use

New partnerships have been forged to combat corruption and promote government that is open and transparent.

With open data there are a lot of possibilities, there are no limits to what you can do with that data.

Failed to open the PC database and the handheld database, no data to sync.

It's called transparency, open data sets, something the TED community is really on it.

It's open access you can all go in and download data as you wish.

Data, data, data...

Starting in 2005, and this is how this open government work in the U.S. really got started,

When we start to see power over the core functions of government spending, legislation, decision making then we're well on our way to an open government revolution.

Bing! That's data. Data, data, data.

When we start by teaching young people that we live, not in a passive society, a read only society, but in a writable society, where we have the power to change our communities, to change our institutions, that's when we begin to really put ourselves on the pathway towards this open government innovation, towards this open government movement, towards this open government revolution.

I came in to become the head of Open Government, to take the values and the practices of transparency, participation and collaboration, and instill them into the way that we work, to open up government, to work with people.

And we'll globally link with government, inter government, non government, education, unions, sports.

The first phase of the open government revolution is delivering better information from the crowd into the center.

Now what we're seeing lots of examples of, obviously, is the opening up of government data, not enough examples of this yet, but we're starting to see this practice of people creating and generating innovative applications on top of government data.

Government Legal

Government Letter

There's a coup government. There's a military government.