I'm an open government enthusiast, data wrangler and web coder.

Blog Posts

• 15 May 2012 » Six months of open data - Shuttleworth Recap
• 11 May 2012 » OffenesParlament - was passiert im Bundestag?
• 08 May 2012 » Tranzparenz in Deutschland - die Chronik des geschlossenen Haushalts
• 20 Mar 2012 » Notizen zu OpenGov
• 17 Mar 2012 » Open Data im e-Gov-Gesetz
• 15 Mar 2012 » A brief journey into the UK's accounting data
• 30 Jan 2012 » Hakuna your data - data bootcamp in Nairobi
• 16 Jan 2012 » Open Data Hackday Hamburg - Fazit
• 13 Jan 2012 » EC-Studie zu Bezahldaten mit Fallstudien aus Deutschland
• 19 Dec 2011 » A good social network analysis tool for advocacy & journalism
• 18 Dec 2011 » World-wide privatizations collected by the World Bank
• 24 Oct 2011 » Organisational IDs inside government - publicbodies.org
• 22 Jul 2011 » Kleine Charta der Beteiligten
• 22 Jun 2011 » Zentralarchiv politischer Meinungen: delegierte ePetitionen
• 27 Apr 2011 » Worklog April 2011
• 23 Apr 2011 » GeoBusiness Lizenz: Open Data und die sieben Zwerge
• 22 Apr 2011 » Notes on Data Catalogue Federation
• 17 Apr 2011 » Open Data-Taktik
• 25 Mar 2011 » Open Data Search: finding useful datasets, worldwide
• 11 Jan 2011 » Vorlage für IFG-Anfragen
• 26 Oct 2010 » Der Herbst im Parlament
• 13 Sep 2010 » Offener Haushalt
• 15 Aug 2010 » Gesetze: What's an App for that?
• 15 Aug 2010 » Ein neues Blahg, ein besseres Blahg.
• 15 Aug 2010 » Aktion Datenpaten

A word of thanks

In November 2011, the Shuttleworth Foundation awarded me a Flash Grant to help promote the idea of open government. This enables me to visit hack days and open knowledge activitsts across Germany and work on nascent open data projects that would not otherwise be possible.

Projects

• OffeneDaten: portal for German open data sources.
• OpenSpending: Tracking international government finance.
• Adhocracy: A distributed policy drafting and decision-making platform.
• OffenerHaushalt: German federal budget visualization.
• PublicData: federated search engine for European data sets.

Experiment & Hacks

• YourTopia: voting on a custom index for human development criteria.
• Mitzeichner: reverse lookup for petition signatories at the German parliament.
• PublicBodies: an entity identification service for publicly held bodies (government departments, offices, etc.).

Code & Data Repositories

• FTS: cleansing scripts for the EC's financial transparency system.
• EU Budget: scraper and cleansing scripts for the EU annual budget.
• Bundeshaushalt: scraper and cleansing scripts German federal budget (now removed from BMF website).
• Förderkatalog: scraper and cleansing scripts German federal research funding since the sixties.