Yesterday, BetaNYC testified at COGE: the canonical text of NYC's Charter is hosted by a private company, not the city. We built five open-source tools to show what publicly owned civic data looks like — now we're asking for charter changes to make it official.
This week's newsletter: https://beta.nyc/newsletter-2026-week24
Al is er een positieve trend, de Woo-praktijk blijft in Nederland tijdrovend, en kostbaar. Maar Nederland staat niet alleen in deze uitdaging: in de VS, het VK, Japan, India, en Zuidoost-Azië kennen overheden gelijksoortige wetten en regels zoals Access to Information Laws, en worstelen ze met soortgelijke uitdagingen. In dit stuk nemen we je in vogelvlucht mee door een paar van deze onderzoeken.
In March 2026, at the OGP’s Washington D.C. offices a short distance from the US Capitol, I met Daniel Schuman, a man who had spent fifteen years quietly transforming how Congress shares information with its own people. Although I had been leading the OGP for a year, and had been a Steering Committee member for […]
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Each digitized page captures a chain of civic decisions from creation to preservation to public access.
Together they form a long record of how California communities have grown and changed over time.
#digitization #opengov #california #archives #localgovernment #UCBerkeley
In 1649, a Dutch colonial lawyer went door to door collecting grievances, got thrown in jail for it, and made the case for #opengov. This week, we shipped 4 open-source AI tools.
Same fight. New tools.
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The argument about who controls what the public knows about its government is not a recent one in New York. It goes back to 1649. That year, Adriaen van der Donck — a Dutch lawyer and president of the Nine Men, the colonists' advisory body to Director-General Stuyvesant — went door to door in New
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