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Data and the City

10 Jan 2017

Instead of considering how technical and legal openness can enable the use of open data in urban regions, we wish to present the many ways in which civil society interacts with public data infrastructures, including creatively repurposing and participating in the making of city data data – and what these practices can teach us about how to increase public participation around city data initiatives [...] As Fumega argues: Some of the usual concerns from the FOI and transparency circles relate to the lack (in most cases) of legal support of users’ right to demand certain datasets in the context of open data initiatives.” On the other hand, open data advocates emphasize that only the re-use for any purpose enables citizens to employ open data with an impact . [...] The availability of budget data varies significantly across federal states so that the public does not have access to the information necessary to participate in the budget process and to hold government to 22 account. [...] The team scrutinizes multiple online data sources in order to identify the government body managing project budgets, the allocated money per project, the date of budget allocation, the project start, as well as the money that has already been spent on a project. [...] This led to a meeting between community stakeholders, the federal Ministry of Education and the Universal Basic Education Committee, Nigeria’s ‘i ntervention, coordinating and monitoring Agency’ aiming to ‘progressively improve the capacity of states, local Government Agencies and communities in the provision of unfettered access to high qualitative basic education’.29 Engaging the committee i
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43
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Montreal, QC, CA

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