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Unlock Government data! SilverStripe sponsors the Open Government Data Barcamp

Posted by Brian on 18 August 2009

At the end of August New Zealand's first Open Government Data Barcamp will take place at the National Library in Wellington. The barcamp is an open, participant driven event organised and run by people who have an interest in making government-held data freely available.

As an open source company and one of the sponsors of the event, SilverStripe strongly stands behind the open data philosophy.  We believe that collaboration fosters innovation and that taxpayer-funded data should be available without restrictions over the Internet. While data itself can do a lot of things, it needs to be put into context to be useful for others; having data freely available allows people to create value and develop innovative services and applications.

Government agencies, as part of their work, collect a substantial amount of non-personal data - from geospatial and environmental data to statistics. In most cases public money is spent to research and obtain this data, so it should be accessible for everyone to use.

SilverStripe works with a range of government agencies helping them to make their data available for citizens in a meaningful way, enabling them to collaborate constructively and make use of the data on a personal, regional, and national level.

To find out more about the New Zealand Open Govt barcamp go to http://groups.google.com/group/nzopengovtbarcamp

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