I wish Canada had had a data.gov website.

Just thought I’d add in the list of Twitter transparency sites. Most are listed at http://www.tweetcommons.com/about, although there are others such as our site http://www.tweetyhall.co.uk but also http://2gov.org and others.

Also in relation to number 7, there are whole swathe of projects emerging out of initiatives such as @sicamp that are creating this transparency through public service delivery, such as the recent @mypolice project or others such as @accesscity (both in development).

There are also all the work of the Guardian through the data store project and other initiatives is doing some great work in this area, for instance the recent impactful illustration of government spending: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/interactive/2009/sep/16/public-spending-larry-elliott.

And then you have the whole ‘government shining a light on itself’ trend which is (thankfully) gathering pace, such as Parliament’s http://findyourmp.parliament.uk site, enabling citizens to find and connect with their MP. Or the numerous examples of government publishing performance and other data.

One last one to add on spending in politics, the Conservative Party shadow cabinet now publishes its expenses in Google Docs at: http://www.conservatives.com/News/Blogs/Google_the_Shadow_Cabinets_expenses.aspx.

And plenty plenty more. Transparency is really gathering speed!

http://www.gotgastro.com/

I guess this fits into category 7 “Services that create transparency as a side effect of delivering services”. By delivering a better service through it’s mashup, it enables transparency. What do you think, Tom?

Ps. Check out http://apps4gov.planetgov20.com/ for more Australian Gov2.0 applications.

btw you’re already following on Twitter..

A coalition of over 160 civil society groups, trade unions, academics and public affairs firms concerned with the increasing influence exerted by corporate lobbyists on the political agenda in Europe, the resulting loss of democracy in EU decision-making and the postponement, weakening, or blockage even, of urgently needed progress on social, environmental and consumer-protection reforms.