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Icelandic Initiative: Hugmyndaráðuneytið

- Hugmyndaráðuneytið", or The Ministry of Ideas, is a collective of people working towards redefining Iceland, which organizes mass efforts, brainstorm meetings and other events which influence open governance."

Framtíðarsýn Þjóðar

Framtíðarsýn Þjóðar" evaluates group value satements using psychological approaches and statistical analysis."

Icelandic Mashup: Data Market

DataMarket is a for-profit company organized around the visualization of data in general, working very specifically on government datasets when available in an effort to increase government transparency.

Icelandic Mashup: Skuggaþing

Skuggaþing (Shadow Parliament)
"is a collaborative law editing system with built in direct and proxied voting. One instance of the software currently resides at
Skuggaþing where it is copying data in real time from the Icelandic parliament and presenting it in a much improved way (despite the fact that we still haven't done graphic design!)"

Finnish Initiative: Mindtrek competition

Mindtrek competition (apps for democracy)
"The "Apps for Democracy Finland" is your chance to wow the world with your ideas; your chance to build better systems on top of public data; your chance to demonstrate the value and the power of public data when it is let free; your chance to take public information and display it in exciting new ways; and your chance to walk away with a range of prizes."

Finnish Initiative: Laatua Verkkoon


Finnish Data Catalog, the Finnish equivalent of data.gov.

“The data catalog is at the moment more about piloting open data related administrative procedures and juridical questions. Software projects which need budgetting will be needed for really opening up data.”

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