Open Data Resources

Existing Policies

[City of Raleigh - Open Data Specification] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-c4oHYIonS7cdQJ_9R5JK9oswIU_He0pbUE0M9B1OGw/edit)

[City of Austin – Open Data Resolution] (http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/edims/document.cfm?id=161941)

City of Vancouver - Open Data Resolution

[Cook County, Illinois- Open Government Plan] (http://blog.cookcountygov.com/opencc/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Open_Cook_County_9.21.11.pdf)

[NYC Open Data Standards Wiki] (http://nycopendata.pediacities.com/wiki/index.php/NYC_Open_Data)

[Hawaii open data law] (http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=632)

General Resources

[White House Open Data Policy Resource] (http://project-open-data.github.io/?utm_source=brigade&utm_medium=page&utm_name=project-open-data)

[Open Knowledge Foundation Open Data Handbook] (http://opendatahandbook.org/)

[Civic Commons Wiki] (http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Civic_Commons_Wiki)

Sunlight Foundation - Open Data Policy Guidelines

[Sunlight Foundation – 10 principles for opening up government information] (http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/ten-open-data-principles/)

Open Data Stackexchange

Beyond Transparency E-Book

Articles

An economic argument for opening data http://radar.oreilly.com/tag/data-economy

Economic costs of not opening data http://blog.okfn.org/2011/10/17/the-cost-of-closed-data-the-economics-of-open-data/

Openwashing http://gov20.govfresh.com/beware-openwashing-question-secrecy-acknowledge-ideology/

Missing Open Data Policy http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2012/03/22/the-missing-open-data-policy/