December 3rd marks the global open data hackathon. Join developers around the world today in supporting open data. Liberate data, build tools or work with a dataset. This is a great opportunity to work on your submission for the City of London Budget App contest. The submission date is quickly approaching.
I am very happy to announce that the City of London and UnLondon have joined forces to launch an open data/open government city budget app contest. The contest has $5500 worth of prizes and there have already been two big events. The budget data is the latest addiction to the growing list of city data. [...]
Where: Unlondon UnLab When: Saturday, December 4th – all day! Why: Because our city’s budget should be accessible to everyone. This hackathon will be a little different. We’re creating an API to interact with the data, so hackers can spend their time creating ways to view, manipulate and interact with London’s city budget. Programmers will [...]
This week the City of London forwarded over a nice little treat – an XML feed of election results. To the best of my knowledge this is the same feed that media outlets have access to and it’s a really cool opportunity for the Open Data activists here in London. “There is also a new [...]
On March 10, 2010 a group of Londoners sat down with a number of representatives from the City of London to discuss technology and community engagement. And now the really cool part … On September 27, 2010 the City of London made the first set of data available at: http://www.london.ca/opendata. The initial sets consist almost [...]