IMIO (Intercommunale Mutualisation Informatique Organisationnelle) is a public organisation (public inter-commune structure) that promotes and coordinates the sharing of solutions and services for local authorities of the Walloon Region of Belgium. The "IA.Solution" is composed of open source modules that Imio produce to meet the needs of local authorities. The solution can be implemented directly on infrastructures members or made ​​available in SaaS " Software as a Service "on IMIO infrastructure. They comprise communal portals, "PloneMeeting" which manages deliberations, “Urban” which…

Citadel on the Move unleashes new Open Innovation opportunities across Europe by making it easier than ever before for citizen developers to access and use local open data to build smart, interactive and on-demand mobile solutions that can be used on any device, anytime, anywhere (cross-border). The challenge Citadel initially addressed is that the power of Open Data remained untapped. Five years ago there were a small number of implementation projects that focused on technically advanced cities with active Open Data communities. There was also a growing body of Open Data standards work that…

Supervizor is an online visualization (http://data.mfcr.cz/supervizor) of institutions' invoices. It loads data from individual open data catalogues including details on supplier, amount, expense description and budget categorization and then groups these invoices by the budget categorization and supplier in a graphic visualization making it very simple for wider public, NGOs, companies and public administration itself to gather information about on what institutions spend public money and what suppliers are they sending the money to. For example, in one click anyone can see, who are the main…

The “City of Malaga Open Data Portal” was released in August 2013, it was published to meet two main goals: it must fulfil laws and directives about data reuse in public sector and it must share useful, reusable and structured information for citizens and companies. The Portal uses CKAN open source, but an extra development was needed before publishing it. First, we needed to include corporative look and feel and, second, generate extra data that CKAN doesn't manage by default. All this software is available on GitHub platform to be reused freely. Later, as we wanted to increase our data…

Consul is a free software platform that allows institutions and organizations to carry on the most important direct citizen participation processes. It includes: citizen proposals, consultations, votings, participatory budgets, collaborative legislation. The platform is flexible allowing each institution/organization to adapt it to suit their specific needs. All functionality can be turn on or off, the home page and other information pages can be personalized without programming, the look and feel of the website can be adapted to suit the corporate image of the institution. It's also…

Atramhasis is an online SKOS editor. It allows a user to create, edit, browse and search an online thesaurus or vocabulary adhering to the SKOS specification through a simple web interface. This allows any user with access to a web browser to consult the thesauri and if so wanted, to edit them. Since SKOS is inherently a multilingual format, Atramhasis supports multiple languages in the user interaface as well. Out of the box it comes with translations for Dutch, English and French. Adding new languages is very straightforward. Atramhasis is also intended to be one of the focal points in a…

EPVNET is based on the following technology: PostgreSQL, Apache2, PHP5, HTML5, AJAX, Dojo Toolkit, client-server model, web application, intranet, specialized ERP. The software caters to a variety of stakeholders such as business managers, application users, developers, end users and infrastructure operators. Economy: the total cost of ownership (TCO) would be nonexistent, being developed and maintained by officials working for the institution. Sustainability: Using software developed and maintained by the institution itself ensure their sustainability over time. Security: The source code…

Geo.admin.ch is the federal government platform that facilitates public access to swiss spatial data. It was created following the entry into force of the Federal Geoinformation Act and is addressing both the general public and professionals, and its intention is to contribute towards a more effective dissemination of the comprehensive information. Winner of over 10 national and international awards, incl United Nations Public Service Award, 2nd place (2012), geo.admin.ch is the comprehensive federal government platform for geoinformation, geodata and geoservices. It is accessible to the…

In northwest Europe nitrogen deposition levels form one of the main barriers to achieving European nature conservation targets. To solve the issues around nitrogen and nature, the Netherlands has developed new policy. The Integrated Approach to Nitrogen (PAS) ensures the achievement of the Natura 2000 objectives, while kick-starting the deadlocked permit issuing process for new economic activities – using an inter-governance approach, across all sectors and nature sites. The PAS has been implemented in mid 2015. AERIUS is the online calculation tool of the PAS. It calculates both emissions and…

In public administration the focus is on increasing the customer service and potential savings with customer-focused information and e-Government solutions. The problem was that administrative procedures in the Region of Epirus were not fully described or documented, there was a lack of relevant information, there were many interpretations, weren't not updated. As for public servants they didn’t know what to implement & how to implement. As for citizens & business there were delays and poor service. The "Citizen's Guide of the Region of Epirus" aims to offer access to a wide range of…

As a part of the Plzen's smart city policy, the city representatives came in contact with the OpenTransportNet (OTN) project (EU project co-funded under the ICT-PSP grant agreement no. 620533) with the goal to visualise the traffic model of the city. The large dataset with detailed modelling of traffic volume had only been used by Plzeň's traffic engineers and city planners for urban planning purposes. The usage of the traffic model was restricted for these purposes until it was made available to public as open data in a form of WMS-t within the OTN's traffic volumes application. At the same…

This http://equipment.data.ac.uk/ service auto-discovers open data about university equipment in the UK and provides a search interface and also a combined dataset for reuse. The mechanism of auto-discovery we have developed for this can be used for many other similar applications and is a decentralized solution which means that even if the central service breaks or goes away, other people getting value from the data can still obtain it directly from the source organizations. All of the tools we have developed for this are open source and available at https://github.com/data-ac-uk/ . The…