Athens Open Data Portal Challenge

Athens needs a publicly available open data portal in order for Athens to have a basis for the creation of useful civic applications by citizens or third party developers in the future. This challenge requires the creation of a system that promotes openness, transparency, and accountability of local government by providing high-value government data in standards compliant, machine readable formats.

The Challenge

  1. Create a system that promotes openness, transparency, and accountability of local government by providing high-value government data in standards compliant, machine readable formats
    1. Need help? Take this idea for example then. What this challenge calls for is adapting to work for Athens and Open Data specifically.
    2. Be creative, Athens is very unique, and a cookie-cutter solution won't necessarily solve the challenge!
  2. Allow for data categorization.
    1. For example, historical data is different from transportation data, and thus should be in a different category when searching for data as an end-user
  3. Allow administrators to add data such that each entry has a title, description, and corresponding files in machine readable formats
  4. Data can be searched through by title and description
  5. Data that is added to the platform by an administrator must be verified as Open Data, such that it satisfies the definition of Open Data

The Data

  1. Data.gov sites and applications
  2. Open City App - Open Source projects created by other civic hacking events and groups
  3. Open Government Platform - OGPL is a joint product from India and United States to promote transparency and greater citizen engagement by making more government data, documents, tools and processes publicly available