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- Municipal crime reporting
- Local law enforcement agencies routinely report crime statistics to the FBI. Here you will find standard crime classifications codified as controlled vocabularies for publishing both crime incident and summary data sets.
- Civic OpenMedia project
- The first cities to provide public access to government data invested significant time and $$ building necessary technology and processes. The Civic OpenMedia project is about sharing this know how and extending capabilities to other municipalities through open source software.
- Gov 2.0 community
- In June 2006, the District of Columbia began streaming detailed government data to the Internet. For the first time, citizens had access to crime incidents, arrests, requests for city services and many other operational data sets as quickly as elected officials and District leaders. See how Washington DC built its open data Gov 2.0 program.
- Fusion Center community
- Fusion Centers synthesize and share useful information for the purpose of protecting public safety. This guide explains steps taken to establish a Fusion Center in the nation's capital. Also, Technology strategy for second generation Fusion Centers white paper suggests practical, cost-effective technology strategy for collecting and synthesizing intelligence information
News/Related
- Brookings Paper
- Government-wide Information Sharing for Democratic Accountability
- Linked Data
- Tim Berners-Lee Four Rules for publishing Linked Data
- City Camp
- CityCamp is an unconference dedicated to practicing Gov 2.0 at the local level. Chicago, Jan 23-34, 2010
- NYC BigApps Gallery
- Applications submitted as part of New York City's BigApps competition
- Gov 2.0 Summit
- Videos from this extraordinary event held Sept '09 in Washington DC
- Fusion center approach could be effective in other areas
- Fusion centers offer useful model for agencies to pool and share real time information - Government Computer News
- District of Columbia`s Data Feeds Wins Innovations in American Government Award
- Honoring Washington DC as first initiative in the country that makes virtually all current district government operational data available to the public in its raw form rather than in static, edited reports
- Int 0991-2009
- New York City Council Legislation creating open data standards
- A Tale of Two Cities: How DC and San Francisco Are Handling Citywide 311
- Alternative approaches for making government data accessible
- Wikipedia for Spies: The CIA Discovers Web 2.0
- A classified version of Wikipedia is transforming the way U.S. spy agencies handle top-secret information by fostering collaboration across Washington and around the world.
- How to Make a Wiki Government
- Better government requires better collaboration
- Crime Stats Online
- New Orleans residents' efforts to access and share reported crime information
- The Times-Picayune sues the NOPD for delayed release of crime records
- The newspaper presses the New Orleans Police Department for more timely crime reporting
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In his book Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren shares the Japanese expression wabi-sabi, referring to the beauty in that which is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete". 
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