San Francisco's "open data" initiative got support from Vivek Kundra, President Obama's CIO
On Facebook you can read:
"Gavin Newsom Launched a new initiative with President Obama's CIO, Vivek Kundra to save taxpayers money by opening up government to web developers. Ask your city to join the effort"
It is very clever that this "Open 311 API" initiative, is advertised on Facebook as a way to save taxpayers money. I expect that very soon under preasure of the citizens local governments will follow San Francisco example. This means lots of new smartphones applications !
This is what Vivek Kundra writes himself in his blog about this initiative:
"Through this approach, new web applications can mash publicly available, real-time data from the cities to allow people to track the status of repairs or improvements, while also allowing them to make new requests for services."
I hope that in near future we will hear about similar initiatives in Europe. Which European country/city will be the first one?
What will be the first smartphone applications taking advantage of this?
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