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Open Data at the Moscow Urban Forum

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The Moscow Urban Forum was a gathering to collect the thoughts of urban and digital practitioners at the Manege venue in Moscow. Alper Cugun represented Open State in the open data panel. As everywhere there remains such an absurd among of work to be done. We are glad though that this issue has the attention [...]

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Dutch laws checked into github

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As written up over at Hack de Overheid, we just committed all Dutch law data into github because we think that is the most interesting way to collaborate on this kind of data. You can find the laws in this repository (the organization is the name of the Dutch legislative body).

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Politwoops update by the Sunlight Foundation

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Our friends over at the Sunlight Foundation have updated and released the source code for Politwoops. It was always our intention to release the source code but Twitter’s TOS prohibited that. Now with a new agreement it is finally possible to track people’s deleted tweets. So checkout the fresh design and the source code on [...]

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Merged organization githubs

As a part of our merger we finally merged the github organizations of both Hack de Overheid and het Nieuwe Stemmen into one over at Open State: https://github.com/organizations/openstate/ Feel free to browse our code and add/suggest projects we can put there. In any case if there is something no longer working, get in touch with us.

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    We recently held the Apps for Democracy event in Dutch parliament where people from technology, politics and journalism came together for the first time to open up data and discuss the future of democracy.

    EU Political Transparency Meetup

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