The ultimate goal will be create a system that incorporates diverse verification methods, accessible user-friendly interface, and intuitive operational features on a safe and reliable platform. The new i-Voting website--to be used for either marketing or policy implementation purposes--will boast a more diversified and flexible authentication system depending on the nature of the topics; specific subjects might require different security levels for voter’s identity verification.
Budget Monitoring is a method that facilitates citizens to screen, assess, and actively participate in the decisions on public policy-making and government expenditure. It offers citizens the power, knowledge, and self-belief to take action for the right to live in better environments. The Center for Budgetmonitoring binds diverse community-led organizations, allowing valuable encounters among them as well as dialogue between citizens, organizations, and the government in mapping out problems and their solutions.
The municipality of Amsterdam experiments with crowdsourcing on the platform AmsterdamOpent.nl, in order to learn how interaction with civilians can support local policies.
In addition to the website www.amsterdamopent.nl, users with a Facebook profile can submit their ideas directly through a Facebook application.
Civocracy makes it easy for citizens to learn more about an issue and to express their views. Civocracy shows the best arguments and relevant news, and also gives an overview of all the ways you can be actively involved, such as attending a town hall meeting or signing up as a volunteer. This way, the connection is made between online and offline engagement. Civocracy also creates impact by inviting all key stakeholders to contribute to the discussion. This leads to relevant high-quality comments.
The territorial development and spatial planning are activities that have a significant impact on our environment and habitat. It is important that working on the development concepts, programs and settlement plans, and during political decision making progress must be exactly known the demographic, social, economic, environmental parameters. The data in sectors mentioned above are territorial aspects related.
The Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) is a web-based open source data management system for the storage and distribution of data, such as spreadsheets and the contents of databases.
The Open Knowledge Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open data and open content in all their forms – including government data, publicly funded research and public domain cultural content. The Foundation is an international leader in its field and has extensive experience in building tools and community around open material. Their software development work includes some of the most innovative and widely acclaimed projects in the area. For example, the CKAN project is the world’s leading open source data portal platform.
The opendata.hu is a free and open Hungarian data catalogue. The site was established by volunteers and NGO's with the aim to create the first Hungarian open data databases collection on web page. Not copyrighted, public data or data of common interest can be uploaded freely to the webpage and can be organized. Further the site wants to be a meeting place for citizens, IT professionals, and researchers whom interested about open data in a long-term and where background materials, forums on the subject are available to users.
OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. Local Knowledge: OpenStreetMap emphasizes local knowledge. Contributors use aerial imagery, GPS devices, and low-tech field maps to verify that OSM is accurate and up to date. Community Driven: OpenStreetMap's community is diverse, passionate, and growing every day. Our contributors include enthusiast mappers, GIS professionals, engineers running the OSM servers, humanitarians mapping disaster-affected areas, and many more.
Locating London’s Past is an interactive website which allows users to search the locations of crimes as recorded at the Old Bailey between 1674 and 1913. MOLA provided spatial data, manipulated digital images and related historic maps to the modern landscape, creating a seamless map. The Locating London’s Past website is widely used by historical researchers and won the 2014 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ (BSECS) Prize for Digital Resources.