{"id":3666,"date":"2010-04-07T10:06:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2010-04-07T10:06:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T10:06:16","slug":"the_europe_roun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3666","title":{"rendered":"The Europe roundup: Iceland, from the financial crisis to open data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antonella Napolitino<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Iceland | From the financial crisis to open data<\/b>
\nIn 2008 in Iceland the financial system imploded. “Not surprisingly, this has led to a demand for more transparency, more access to public data and more effective communication by the government. All of a sudden Open Data is seen as a high priority among various lobby groups, branches of government and in restoration planning<\/i>” says Hjalmar Gislason, an open data activist and member of the Open Knowledge Foundation\u2019s Working Group on EU Open Data<\/a>. In a long and detailed post, Gislason explains<\/a> how this is not just part of the “momentum” open data is gaining in Europe, but a further step in a path that started in late ’90s.
\nThe Icelandic Modern Media Initiative<\/a> and the presence of Wikileaks<\/a> surely have a positive impact on the whole scenario and there is no doubt they will help boosting any future open data bill. The effects will be seen soon: “In December a rare cross-party parliamentary proposal<\/a> (the first step in passing new legislation) was made, proposing a \u201cdefault open\u201d strategy for any public sector data. The Prime Minister\u2019s Office has formed a committee that is to propose changes and improvements in legislation and suggest how to define the boundaries between data that is to be open and data that shall remain closed.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Antonella Napolitino<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Iceland | From the financial crisis to open data<\/b>
\nIn 2008 in Iceland the financial system imploded. “Not surprisingly, this has led to a demand for more transparency, more access to public data and more effective communication by the government. All of a sudden Open Data is seen as a high priority among various lobby groups, branches of government and in restoration planning<\/i>” says Hjalmar Gislason, an open data activist and member of the Open Knowledge Foundation\u2019s Working Group on EU Open Data<\/a>. In a long and detailed post, Gislason explains<\/a> how this is not just part of the “momentum” open data is gaining in Europe, but a further step in a path that started in late ’90s.
\nThe Icelandic Modern Media Initiative<\/a> and the presence of Wikileaks<\/a> surely have a positive impact on the whole scenario and there is no doubt they will help boosting any future open data bill. The effects will be seen soon: “In December a rare cross-party parliamentary proposal<\/a> (the first step in passing new legislation) was made, proposing a \u201cdefault open\u201d strategy for any public sector data. The Prime Minister\u2019s Office has formed a committee that is to propose changes and improvements in legislation and suggest how to define the boundaries between data that is to be open and data that shall remain closed.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39,14,33,44,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}