InformationWeek Covers DataSF.org & EcoFinder

Sunday, 11. 29. 2009  –  Category: Featured

InformationWeek editor Fritz Nelson put together a great article on San Francisco’s DataSF.org project, including video interviews with many of the people that helped make it happen. Nelson speaks to the importance that open data could hold for democracy in this country:

“Open and transparent government, when it’s more than a political platitude, goes far beyond getting building permits online. The next phase of the Web could be the ultimate manifestation of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, but without a messy civil war. San Francisco’s DataSF.Org takes a few giant leaps, and has already turned its citizens into active city participants.”

Check out San Francisco Goes Open, Transparent at InformationWeek.com.