Refresh: Walking the talk — OIO Rest

Walking the talk — OIO Rest

I wrote about the huge potential in government as a service the other day, and apparently i’m not the only one who has seen the opportunity. The only difference is that while I just wrote a few thought and did nothing, others have actually done exciting work on this front. Some articles in English:

And more in Danish

Free Willy
OIO REST
Danmark Web Service
Denmark in REST
Write-up of the OIO REST workshop

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One Response to “Walking the talk — OIO Rest”

Jesper Rønn-Jensen Says:
May 28th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Steffen,
thanks for mentioning here. You contribute to add awareness about making public data more available.

I really like the quote from your previous article:

Government shouldn’t spend it’s time building web sites, instead it should “focus on creating a simple, reliable and publicly accessible infrastructure that exposes the underlying data”.

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