Open Government Data Poster

Ton and James Burke created the Open Government Data Poster to help civil servants decide if and how it is ok to open up data sets they have available.

Also available in PDF (English) version.

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Open Declaration on European Public Services

Endorse the Open Declaration!

Let’s improve European public services together.

On November 19th, the EU governments will meet in Malmo to sign a Ministerial Declaration that will define the key priorities for e-government strategy in Europe for the next years.

A group of Web 2.0 enthusiasts launched an open collaborative effort to build an Open Declaration on European Public Services, which calls on European governments to embrace the values of transparency, participation and empowerment and so improve public services. The European Commission and the Swedish Presidency of the EU have accepted that we present the declaration in the official program of the Ministerial Conference.

We now need to collect thousands of endorsements in order to convince governments to fully embrace these values.

If you share the values of the Open Declaration, please add your name in this form. Together we can make a difference!

If you agree, you may sign it and then join the Facebook Group to start spreading the word.

Google vs Microsoft

Couldn’t put it better about the future Google operating system:

Imagine

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Há muito que me pergunto qual é a desculpa que o governo português teve e usa para distribuir classmates (pintados de Magalhães) em vez de OLPC’s … mas o a minha opinião fica para outro post..

A ideia deste é mesmo… imaginar como seria!
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For a long time I’ve been wondering the excuse the portuguese goverment used and still uses to be delivering classmates (disguised as Magalhães) in Portugal instead of OLPC’s…

Well my reasoning about it is matter for another post, for now… just follow along and imagine how it would be!
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BTW, the G1G1 – Give One Get One program has been restarted this past 17th November in a partnership with Amazon.

SAPO Summerbits

O SAPO acaba de anunciar o “SAPO SummerBits“, inspirado no Google Summer of Code, é nada mais, nada menos do que um conjunto de 10 bolsas (2500€) e é destinado a estudantes com o objectivo de que estes desenvolvam e participem em projectos OpenSource ou Software Livre.

O programa tem a duração de 3 meses e as candidaturas terminam já no dia 19 de Julho! Por isso e se ainda não sabes bem o que fazer nas férias de verão, aqui tens uma grande sugestão:

SHiFT 2008

It’s true, SHiFT is back!. We almost died on our first ’round’ in 2006 but we decided to do it again and today we just gave the first (public) step towards it: we’ve unleashed the dates – set your calendars:

A lot of work, discussion and planning will take place in the coming months, so EVERYONE is invited to help and participate in the discussion! We haven’t closed down the speakers list and there will be space for the community to vote on who gets to go up on stage later on, but if you know an exciting speaker or you’re just wishing your secret hero to be there, don’t be shy and let us know!
Pop us an email over at speakers@shift.pt.

Don’t forget to keep an eye on the official Blog, or subscribe SHiFT’s Twitter / jaiku feeds.

See you back in October!

Associação Ensino Livre

A notícia não é de hoje, mas há alguns dias atrás tomei conhecimento do nascimento formal da Associação Ensino Livre algo que a mim pessoalmente me traz alguma alegria por ver que ainda há quem acredite e se mexa por um ensino mais abrangente do que aquele que é tradicionalmente aplicado no nosso país. Como se pode ler na nota de imprensa:

A Associação tem como finalidade promover a utilização de software livre e a produção de conteúdos livres nos processos de aprendizagem, nomeadamente ao nível do sistema de ensino(…)

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DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix

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DataPortability gathers existing open standards into a blueprint for a social, open, remixable web where your online identity, media, contacts and content can follow you wherever you go.

Find out more at dataportability.org

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DataPortability reune standards já existentes definindo a base para uma web aberta, social e remixable onde a tua identidade, os teus contactos e todos os contéudos por ti produzidos podem seguir-te para onde quer que vás.

Para saber mais: dataportability.org

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