At the last G8 Summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland this past June, the Chiefs of State had agreed on an Open Data Charter committing their respective governments to make efforts to bring more open data online in machine-readable formats.<p>Today France releases its action plan for the implementation of the Charter, and specifically commits to releasing more governement datasets and APIs for hackers and startups to experiment with.<p>Specifically, we're committing to:<p>- progressing towards publishing data openly by default,<p>- building an open platform to encourage innovation and transparency,<p>- developing Open Data policy in consultation with citizensand civil society,<p>- supporting open innovation in France and throughout the world.<p>I'd be very interested in HN's feedback on how useful this can be for you, and what else you'd like to know about our Open Data policy and how we're trying to improve it!
That's pure bs:
www.data.gouv.fr is full of XLS and DOC documents. No raw data, only aggregated statistics. Useless.<p>Documents and data are not the same...<p>I'm french, and NOT proud of it
Link to the license under which the data will / is being released. Pretty ok!<p><a href="http://ddata.over-blog.com/xxxyyy/4/37/99/26/licence/Licence-Ouverte-Open-Licence-ENG.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://ddata.over-blog.com/xxxyyy/4/37/99/26/licence/Licence...</a>
That's a nice ethos to adopt as a government, but he can't ignore the crippling taxes his government have instated since taking up office. I feel very sorry for business owners in France at the moment.