Inspiring Better Innovation with Open* Collaboration

Open standards, open source, open data, open government, open dialog are moving to becoming a reality with the open web. The Internet is built on open-source software, and has really spawned a whole new era of innovation through global collaboration. The resulting culture change has affected most aspects of our society and provide a real challenge to pre-Internet industries.

For citizens, this represents a real shift toward transparency, allowing people to become engaged with their government. Open data growth presents real opportunities for individuals, businesses and other government departments to build upon information to provide better services.

To be a useful, democratizing process, open data needs open source. Drupal has a strong history of both categorizing and processing with open data. Feeds has proven a very effective module to aggregate information.

We will highlight some of our work with our Weather Report Card as part of this presentation and will address other means which open source tools can assist pulling knowledge out of data.