My comments elsewhere- Northamptonshire’s road to FixMyStreet / mySociety
- Display Wikidata labels · Issue #262 · taginfo/taginfo
- Recreating an old UK Government Coat of Arms – Terence Eden’s Blog
- Unofficial Transcripts: mySociety is seeking councillors, council officers, local activists and hyperlocal bloggers interested in Hansards at the local level / mySociety
- The Guardian and chugging – James Cousins
Tag Archives: localgovweb
Politician pin ups – open-licensed pictures, please
Andy Mabbett calls on public bodies to provide open-licensed pictures of politicians and senior officers. Continue reading
Posted in hyperlocal, ideas, local government, open data, photography, Wikipedia
Tagged accountability, aerial photography, Birmingham City Council, blogging, Bull Ring, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, copyright, Creative Commons, democracy, flickr, free, hyperlocal, journalism, libre, licence, licensing, local government, localgovweb, open data, open licence, opendata, OpenlyLocal, Paul Tilsley, photography, politicians, politics, social media, web, West Midlands Police, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, wikipedia
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Dan Slee, me, HyperLocal Govcamp West Midlands, BrewCamp, and cake
Andy Mabbett is mentioned in a new blog post by Dan Slee, about HyperLocal Govcamp West Midlands, BrewCamp, and cake Continue reading
Posted in about me, hyperlocal, ideas, local government
Tagged BrewCamp, cake, danSlee, flickr, GovCamp, hyperlocal, local government, localgovweb, Mike Rawlins, Pezholio, Si Whitehouse, Stuart Harrison, twitter:user=danslee, twitter:user=mike_rawlins, Twitter:user=pezholio, Twitter:user=siwhitehouse, West Midlands, wikipedia
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This weekend was indistinguishable from magic
Andy Mabbett is still excited by computers and the web; and by UKGovCamp. Continue reading
Posted in local government, Nokia N95, tagging, Twitter
Tagged GovCamp, LeSteph, localgovweb, magic, Nokia N95, tagging, UKGC11
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My Open Data Challenge to UK Local Government: a Wikipedia Page for Every Council
An open data problem experienced by OpenlyLocal could be solved if staff from each UK council simply started a Wikipedia article about their council, where none already exists. Continue reading