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OpenMuni

2010-08-26: This site was formerly the OpenMuni wiki, but is now part of Civic Commons with an expanded, non-city-specific purpose. Everything below this line is the old OpenMuni home page.

Facilitating collaboration and cataloging case studies, best practices, and standards for open governance, open data, and open source on the local municipal level:

OpenMuni is a resource to spread knowledge and connect localities to better provide open channels of information to improve quality of life, increase civic engagement, and make local government more effective. The website will be much like an encyclopedia documenting best-practices and open standards for file formats, APIs, open source software, and supporting policies and licenses that are pertinent to the municipal level. Furthermore, there will be case-studies documenting the process of opening-up city agencies and building closer partnerships with their constituents and software developers.

OpenMuni is a collaboration between many cities and organizations including OpenPlans, Code for America, and CityCamp.

Please [sign-up for updates](http://openmuni.org/signup/) to be notified of the official launch of this project.

Open Government Guidebook ————————-

The Open Government Guidebook describes step-by-step processes for opening government. This is a work in progress and as a wiki we encourage you to contribute case studies and references to this material. The processes are organized into the following sections:

See also the Open Gov Playbook wiki for the Open Government Directive

Open Government Initiatives by City

United States

Canada

United Kingdom

Open Governance Policies

Transparency

Participation & Collaboration

Accessibility

Sharing Policy

  • See recommendations and precedents for how to share policy, on the Sharing Policy page.

Open Data Initiatives

Cities

Community Run

States, Provinces, and other Regions

Community Run

Nations

Community Run

Intergovernmental Organizations

Other Open Government Data Resources

Idea Sourcing for Data and Apps

Open Source Data Catalog Platforms

See main article at Data Platform

Directory denotes that the system links-to and provides metadata about data hosted elsewhere rather than acting as a repository for the data itself.

App Catalogs

  • See App Catalogs for information on catalogs from app contests and information related to city app catalogs including listings of open source projects.

Open Source

Data Standards

See Civic Software for standards by data type

Case Studies

Regional Alliances

Other References

Organizations Covering Civic Information Technology

Likeminded Efforts

News