The Danish IT and Telecomm Agency, ITST, organized a competition to stimulate the re-use of open government data in the fall of 2009, called ODIS. ODIS stands for Offentlige Data i Spil ('bringing public data into play').
Winners were announced at the ODIS conference in Copenhagen on February 4th 2010.

It was three weeks ago when a group of Semantic Web enthusiasts and representatives from various Austrian organisations have met in Vienna to discuss a possible future initiative towards Open Government Linked Data. The output of this first meeting was the decision that we will organize the upcoming Semantic Web Meetup in Vienna with a special focus on Open Government Linked Data.

Opengov.se is an initiative to highlight available public datasets in Sweden. It contains a commentable catalog of government datasets, their formats and usage restrictions. The percent figure on the start page indicates the share of datasets that are available with an open license and in at least one open format.

On April 17th and 18th the German OpenData Network will organize a BarCamp around Open Data in collaboration with Hack de Overheid from the Netherlands. The event takes place in Berlin.

More info in the wiki page: http://wiki.opendata-network.org/index.php?title=Hack_the_Government
Or e-mail info [aet] opendata-network.org

Announcement of the event in German.

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

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.