U.S. – www.data.gov
U.K. – data.gov.uk ; UK Guardian Open Data
Australia - data.australia.gov.au
New Zealand – cat.open.org.nz
World Bank – http://data.worldbank.org
OpenPlans: US non-profit technology organization focused on civic engagement and open government. We use journalism and open source software to turn data into accessible, useful information. This work engages the average person in shaping their community.
CivicCommons: An independent non-profit organization, Civic Commons to help institutions share code and best practices, reform procurement practices, and learn to function not only as a provider of services but as a platform to which an ecosystem of industry can add value for government and its citizens.
Code for America: helps city governments become more transparent, connected and efficient by connecting the talents of cutting-edge web developers with people who deliver city services and want to embrace the transformative power of the web to achieve more impact with less money. Inspired in part by Teach for America, CFA works with city officials and leading web development talent to identify and then develop web solutions that can then be shared and rolled out more broadly to cities across America.

Lists & Catalogs of Data

List Open Data Catalogs – Open Knowledge Foundation
List of Lists, OKNF
datacatalogs.org
List Open Data Competitions – Open Knowledge Foundation
OECD Data
Open Government Partnership
Global Map
TWC International Open Government Dataset Catalog (IOGDC)
Data Catalog Interoperability Workshop (OKNF)

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Principles:

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Reading Lists:

GeoConnections: The Dissemination of Government Geographic Data in Canada – Guide to Best Practices
Open Data Open City, Martin Prosperity Institute
CIHR: Data, Data Everywhere…: Improving access to population health and health services research data in Canada
Open Government: Resolution of Canada’s Access to Information and Privacy Commissioners
Tracey’s Fave Blogs (Art, Cartography, Viz, OpenData)
Open Gov Data List of Readings
Zotero list – and group library
Measuring the Social and Economic Costs and Benefits of Public Sector Information Online: A Review of the Literature and Future Directions (National Academies Press)
Policy guidelines for the development and promotion of governmental public domain information
The Socioeconomic Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks: Toward a Better Understanding of Different Access and Reuse Policies: Workshop Summary
Toward Implementation of the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles, Journal of Space Law (2009).
Data Sharing Principles for the Global Earth Observing System of Systems
2008 OECD Recommendation on Public Sector Information and related materials.
EC Public Sector Information (LAPSI), run out of the Politecnico di Torino.
A US-China Roundtable on Scientific Data Cooperation and a related study.
Chilean national scientific data policy, CONICYT (July 2010) – Previously, Measuring European Public Sector Information Resources (2003)
COMMUNIA, looking at public domain info, out of Turin.
Board on Research Data and Information, at the U.S.National Research Council

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Free Data Canada:

Electoral Boundary API, Vote.ca
How’d They Vote Gov. Representative API, How’d They Vote.ca
B.C.’s Climate Change Data Catalogue is a composite listing of publicly available data related to climate change, with a focus on British Columbia data.
GeoGratis: GeoGratis is a portal provided by the Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) which provides geospatial data at no cost and without restrictions via your Web browser.
GeoBase: GeoBase is your portal for no fee access to quality geospatial data!

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Federal Government Committees:

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Cool Tools/Apps:

many eyes: Their “goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis”. It makes visualizing dataset very easy indeed.
Ushahidi: Information Collection, Visualization, & Interactive Mapping Ushahidi builds tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories.
Visualizing.org: is a community of creative people working to make sense of complex issues through data and design… and it’s a shared space and free resource to help you achieve this goal.
Guardian Open Platform: “is the suite of services that make it possible for our partners to build applications with the Guardian. We’ve opened up our platform so that everyone can benefit from our journalism, our brand, and the technologies that power guardian.co.uk.” Quite amazing really. It is accompanied by many other useful data sharing and visualization services such as a DataStore and a Datablog.
Budget Plateau
Zone Cone

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Data Visualization Blogs:

EagerEyes: EagerEyes is Robert Kosara’s place to reflect on the world of information visualization and visual communication of data. The goal is to help digest things that are happening in the field and discuss developments that may be tangential or early, but that are likely to have an impact.
Information is Beautiful: Issues, Ideas, Knowledge, data – visualized
Information Aesthetics Where form follows data
FlowingData
Visual Complexity
Visual.ly

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Civic Initiatives:

Civicaccess.ca
Datadotgc.ca a citizen-led beta for government data
VisibleGovernment.ca a Canadian non-profit that promotes online tools for government transparency.

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Lists: