Over the last three years we’ve seen an increasing level of sophistication and capabilities in successive generations of open data sites.
To aid governments in their open data journey, I’ve mapped five generations for the progressive development of open data sites, detailed in the document below.
Please feel free to reuse the information within the bounds of the embedded Creative Commons license.
My next task is to release a view of open data sites around the world mapped against these generations to provide a view as to who is leading and who is lagging in the open data stakes.
eGov AU
Craig Thomler’s personal Gov 2.0 and eGovernment thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective
Craig – I recently had a fascinating conversation with a professor from Harvard about the US Data.gov (he’s been doing research on open data and may be someone you’d like to meet). He says it’s bankrupt…a facade…and I am about to write a post on it to ask the community if it’s true. Stay tuned.