A beautiful visualization of how the UK budget is spend on different policy areas. Also possible to look at info per nation in the UK and regional. Also contains historic info and time lines. By the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Nos Députés ('our representatives') tracks both laws under discussion, as well as the parliamentary activity of French MP's.

A BarCamp (explanation) around open data, with the motto 'all you ever wanted to do with open government data, but never dared to ask' Held in Paris, December 12th 2009. More info in French

Looking for a good name for your child? A name that isn't used too much? One that goes with your family name? Navnelaboratoriet (the name laboratory) helps out. Combining the official names registry in Denmark with statistic data on name usage and wikipedia info on the meaning of a name, and a RESTful API, this is one cool mash-up.

A poster that shows the major steps and corresponding decisions that lead to publishing a data source as open data. Licensed under CC-by/nc/sa, and available in several languages.

Hack de Overheid ('hack the government') is a one day event that brings civil servants together with coders to discuss Open Data issues, as well as build applications during the day.

The OpenData Network is a new initiative to promote opendata in Germany. It is a a non-profit civil society NGO. The aim is to help promote opendata, openaccess, opengovernment, transparency, participation and collaboration.

The focus will be on promoting, researching and supporting the development of new methods and tools for dataliberation, datavisualisation, participation and collaboration.

OpenData Network

Mail: info@opendata-network.org
Web: http://opendata-network.org
Blog: http://opendata-network.org/blog

Crowdsourcing the new website for the Norwegian Statistics office (Statistik Sentralbyra, SSB). SSB is publicly and actively seeking input and ideas for the development of a new website. Plans for the new site are to achieve higher levels of dissemination and easier access to their data.

Digitaliser.dk is the 'social network and tool for development, knowledge sharing and a forum for the digitisation of Denmark.' Initiator is the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, part of the Ministry for Science, Technology and Development.

Folkets Ting (people's parliament) tracks both laws under discussion, as well as the parliamentary activity of Danish MP's.