Transparency, participation, and collaboration are key components to open source but also to the open government movement. During the month of May, Opensource.com will feature…
Open Government Week is always a time for reflection on what has changed in the previous 12 months, and this year is no exception. Open Raleigh is nearing it’s second year as…
The open government movement has become super-charged over the last year. Largely in part to the people and organizations on the front lines. At the 2013 Code for America…
Open Government Week starts May 12 From May 12 - 23, we'll highlight some great people and projects in open government, open data, and civic hacking. We'll also provide…
In the Netherlands a community of civil servants has developed an open source platform for collaboration within the public sector. What began as a team of four has grown to…
A great deal of excitement has been generated by UK Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude's forceful announcement in late January that the UK government intends to mandate the…
The TYPO3 CMS project has a long history as open source project, with its foundation going back as far as 1997 when it was initially developed by Danish Kasper Skårhøj…
The US Department of Veterans Affairs ( VA ) is the second largest agency of the US federal government. It employs more than 280,000 people, and with an annual budget close to…
Do you have an idea that has the potential to transform how citizens interact with their government on a local, state, or even national level? Turning that potential into…
At the end of this month, thousands of entrepreneurial citizens from across the United States and the world will come together to improve their communities and the governments…
Simply put, the Code for America (CfA) Accelerator changed our company’s future. We had been on track for increasing sales and product development, and had already raised some…
Hirschgarten, in the west of Munich, is one of Europe's biggest beer gardens, with over 8,000 places to sit. It's a spectacular sight in summer: hundreds of benches as far as…