What would you want in a government API?
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Matt Gillooly
Jan 21, 2009, 2:56:14 AM1/21/09
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There's an interesting discussion happening over at Hacker News,
titled "What Would you want in a government API?" (http://
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=442078)
The dominant focus among the posters so far is on accountability at
the Federal level. In addition to a bunch of great suggestions for
government APIs (and some pretty funny ones), a number of existing
resources have been brought up, such as http://usaspending.gov/ an the
NY Times Congress API (http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/
introducing-the-congress-api/)
Not mentioned on that site, but relevant to those of us in Rhode
Island is our state's GovTracker API (http://www.state.ri.us/
govtracker/).
In keeping with Mashable City's focus, what APIs & mashups would you
like to see at the city government level? Care to share any examples
of these technology already being used in our community or elsewhere?
titled "What Would you want in a government API?" (http://
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=442078)
The dominant focus among the posters so far is on accountability at
the Federal level. In addition to a bunch of great suggestions for
government APIs (and some pretty funny ones), a number of existing
resources have been brought up, such as http://usaspending.gov/ an the
NY Times Congress API (http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/
introducing-the-congress-api/)
Not mentioned on that site, but relevant to those of us in Rhode
Island is our state's GovTracker API (http://www.state.ri.us/
govtracker/).
In keeping with Mashable City's focus, what APIs & mashups would you
like to see at the city government level? Care to share any examples
of these technology already being used in our community or elsewhere?
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