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Steve Luker 3h ago

My latest on trump 2.0's CORRUPTION.
https://stevenluker.substack.com/p/someone-elses-keys-part-2

#Corruption #Accountability #Fiduciary #TrumpCrypto #PredictionMarkets #OpenGovernment #CivicTech #BrokenSpoke

Someone Else’s Keys - Part 2

What the Other Hand Was Doing

The Broken Spoke

JoshuaRed Mar 27

IA como auditora ciudadana: ¿Estamos preparados para ver dónde se pierde realmente el dinero público?

Llevamos semanas discutiendo si la IA curará el cáncer o escribirá mejores mails. Pero hay una función de esta tecnología que los poderes establecidos evitan mencionar: su capacidad para auditar el poder.

Tenemos miles de millones de documentos públicos —licitaciones, presupuestos, contratos, facturas— enterrados en PDFs imposibles. Un humano tardaría décadas en detectar una trama de corrupción o una ineficiencia sistemática. La IA, en segundos, identifica patrones, anomalías y pagos sospechosos que normalmente pasan desapercibidos.

Esto es Ciencia de Guerrilla aplicada a la política:

▶️ Fin de la opacidad: no hacen falta más leyes de transparencia si podemos analizar masivamente lo que ya es público.

▶️ Caza de ineficiencias: la IA no tiene amigos. Si un contrato se infla un 30% en varios ayuntamientos, lo señala. No es ideología, son datos.

▶️ Auditoría ciudadana: ¿y si en vez de esperar años a un tribunal, pudiéramos auditar presupuestos en tiempo real?

La tecnología nos da la llave para ver dónde se esconde el dinero que no llega a sanidad, educación o ciencia. La pregunta ya no es si es posible, sino si tendremos el valor de hacerlo.

¿Quién se anima a proponer cómo estructurar un modelo que, con datos abiertos, audite la contratación pública?

#IA #CienciaDeGuerrilla #SoberaniaDigital #OpenScience #JusticiaSocial #HackTheSystem #CorrupcionCero #TransparenciaRadical #OpenData #DatosPublicos #CivicTech #TechForGood #SoberaniaTecnologica #IAEtica #DemocraciaReal #BigData #FinDelAbuso #CiudadanoDigital #HackeoPolitico #OpenGovernment #TecnologiaHumana #CodigoLibre #SoberaniaCientifica #InnovacionSocial #CambioDeParadigma #InteligenciaColectiva #AuditoriaCiudadana #GobiernoAbierto #FiscalizacionCiudadana #DatosAbiertos #EticaTecnologica #PoderCiudadano #TecnologiaCivica #ControlPublico #DemocraciaDigital #TransparenciaTotal #AnaliticaPublica #IAParaElBien

Dan Mar 21

BIG NEWS: Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/20/big-news-germany-has-just-made-odf-mandatory/ #OpenDocument #Libreoffice #OpenOffice #OpenGovernment #Germany

BIG NEWS: Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory - TDF Community Blog

The German federal government has quietly taken an extremely significant step: hidden amongst the technical specifications of the Deutschland-Stack – the rules that will govern the sovereign digital infrastructure supporting public administration at all levels of government, from federal ministries to local council offices – there is a short but highly significant line. Under the technological pillar “Semantic technologies and real-time analysis”, the document mandates the use of just two document formats: ODF and PDF/UA. That is all. Two open, vendor-neutral formats, defined by international standardisation bodies. OOXML, Microsoft’s closed, proprietary format, is not on the list. What is the Deutschland-Stack? The Deutschland-Stack is the German federal government’s project for a sovereign, interoperable digital infrastructure that complies with European standards. It is neither a pilot project nor a policy discussion paper, but the result of a coordinated decision between the Digital Minister, the Federal Chancellery and the Chancellor, backed by the coalition agreement. The document sets out the standards that will govern how all federal public administrations, at all levels, build, procure and manage their digital systems, and envisages concrete implementation by 2028. It is worth reading its architectural principles carefully. “Made in the EU first.” Reduction of lock-in effects.

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NOLIGARCHY.US Mar 16

Why it matters:

When officials can vote on agenda items with little or no advance notice, transparency collapses and accountability follows. This makes it far easier for bad decisions to dodge public scrutiny and for officials to avoid consequences.

#OpenGovernment #SunshineWeek

Colorado Newsline Mar 16

Commentary: Democrats in the Colorado Legislature have taken steps every year to erode transparency around what they do. Voters this year might have a chance to push back and declare for themselves a "fundamental right to know." #SunshineWeek #OpenGovernment #FOIA

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A fundamental right to know heads to the Colorado ballot | Colorado Newsline

Democrats in the Colorado Legislature have taken steps every year to erode transparency around what they do.

Colorado Newsline

tbsprs Mar 15

TIL: City Monitor — Berlin
https://citymonitor.app/berlin
#opendata #opengovernment #berlinopendata @opendataberlin @codeforbe @codeforde

Kompetenzzentrum Open Data Feb 26

Ein verlässlicher Rechtsrahmen ist zentral für digitale Innovation.⚖️
Ein neues Gutachten aus Hamburg zeigt, wie Verwaltungen Daten rechtssicher nutzen und teilen - eine wichtige Grundlage für #OpenData, #OpenGovernment und datengetriebene Services.
Mehr Infos hier:👇
https://www.kommune21.de/k21-meldungen/ein-rechtsrahmen-fuer-die-datennutzung/

Ein Rechtsrahmen für die Datennutzung - Kommune21 online | Kommune21 - E-Government, Internet und Informationstechnik

Ein neues, von der Stadt Hamburg beauftragtes Fachgutachten will Orientierung für die moderne, datengetriebene Verwaltung schaffen. Die frei verfügbare Publikation liefert Hinweise für die Praxis und zeigt Ansatzpunkte, wie Datenteilen rechtssicher und effektiv unterstützt werden kann.

Kommune21 online | Kommune21 - E-Government, Internet und Informationstechnik

makeITsocial Infodienst Feb 25

Wer ehrenamtlich Kinder trainiert, bekommt Steuererleichterungen. Wer in seiner Freizeit Open-Source-Software pflegt, von der Millionen profitieren, geht leer aus. Einige wollen das nun ändern – doch so einfach ist die Sache nicht.

https://infodienst-makeit.social/petition-fordert-open-source-arbeit-soll-als-ehrenamt-gelten/

#Digitalisierung #OpenSource #Teilhabe #Ehrenamt #DigitaleKommunikation #digitaleTeilhabe #opendata #digitalesehrenamt #opengovernment

Petition fordert: Open-Source-Arbeit soll als Ehrenamt gelten - makeITsocial Infodienst

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Walled Culture Feb 25

Common Corpus, an open training set for AI, goes global – and so should support for it

As many of the AI stories on Walled Culture attest, one of the most contentious areas in the latest stage of AI development concerns the sourcing of training data. To create high-quality large language models (LLMs) massive quantities of training data are required. In the current genAI stampede, many companies are simply scraping everything they can off the Internet. Quite how that will work […]

#aiAlliance #commonCorpus #curation #euAiAct #financeCommons #france #gdpr #github #legalCommons #llms #multilingual #openCulture #openGovernment #openScience #openSource #openWeb #pdf #permissiveLicensing #pleias #publicDomain #scraping #tokens #toxicity #wikimedia #youtube https://walledculture.org/common-corpus-an-open-training-set-for-ai-goes-global-and-so-should-support-for-it/

Deflock Broward Feb 24

Hello Mastodon! Deflock Broward here. We use public records to track license plate reader (ALPR) surveillance, then publish sources + plain-English explainers.

Starting with Weston: https://deflockbroward.org/weston

#DeflockBroward #Deflock #WestonFL #Broward #SouthFlorida #Florida #PublicRecords #SunshineLaw #OpenGovernment #Privacy #Surveillance #ALPR #LicensePlateReaders #FlockSafety

Weston | Deflock Broward

What the public record shows about Weston’s fixed ALPR (license plate reader) system — what happened, what it does, what’s unclear, and what residents can ask for.