Robin Muilwijk

Interesting post! I briefly searched the European Patent Office (http://www.epo.org) if such defensive patent registration is possible but could not find anything.

Great post, thank you for sharing. I'm a civil servant myself at a local government. Your post triggered me to check the site at Raleigh.gov. Very impressive to see what is happening in terms of open data and open government there. I keep learning from these posts.

The municipality I work at (Netherlands, Europe) has committed itself to what I think resembles what Raleigh is doing; citizen participation. Raleigh though, is doing this along with open data and a strategy matching open source. Interesting to see how this is combined. Food for thought to say the least.