Help Build the Semantische Ecosystem of ABB

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ABB - Agentschap Binnenlands Bestuur or Agency for Home Affairs

ABB contributes to sustainable and democratic living together in diversity by connecting and strengthening citizens and authorities

6 Policy fields
Local governance
Urban Policy
Brussels
Equal Opportunities
Flemish Periphery

More information about ABB: https://www.vlaanderen.be/agentschap-binnenlands-bestuur [Dutch]

Assignment

ABB is an agile organisation that inspires policy and provides answers for the administrative and social challenges of today and tomorrow

Vision

We connect and strengthen citizens and local government through:

The promotion of equal opportunities and living together of citizens in diversity. The supply of a policy framework and instruments which boast the relationship between citizens and local government. The strengthening of the governance capacity of local government, so that tasks can be implemented on the level nearest to the citizen

Waarden

• Collaboration & Agility We find solutions together, believe in the power of collaboration and are open to new challenges.

• Trust & Integrity We give and earn trust and promote integrity.

• Openness We provide clear information, share our knowledge and operate with transparency.

• Decisiveness We say what we do and do what we say.

A Semantic Ecosystem

The Value We Deliver For Our Society

More than 3000 Local Governments in Flanders write decisions that contain valuable information – every day. We want to make sure that by using linked open data, they can publish their information and (legal) documents directly, and make direct data exchange possible. We make sure we have reusable resources, so that information can flow to other governments & services, citizens, organisations and companies.

ABB provides support for quality & efficiency, to strengthen those local governments.

The Solutions We Build

We build services and products to create that value. Linked data is made possible in 4 ways:

1. We co-created a Linked Open Data Standard, together with the local governments: a standard way of sharing data between the involved parties.

2. We validate vendors that provide software that supports note taking for local governments; and make sure they exchange and publish their data in a correct manner. More info [Dutch].

3. We created "Linked Minutes" (Gelink Notuleren): basic, free decision-making software for local governments without a software vendor – to support linked data.

4. We are building an innovative open source linked data text editor that allows end users to create machine-readable information 'without effort'. We reuse this editor in our own applications and make sure that external parties can also easily reuse it.

This information is captured in the "Box Office for Local Governments" (Loket voor Lokale besturen) – a platform for data sharing and communication between local governments and the agency for home affairs.

We make this public data available for other governments & services and private re-users.

The Agency of home affairs deliver support via their helpdesk, give trainings and develop solutions to support local governments.

Browse through the ecosystem and our applications

Discover the ecosystem, the solutions and applications that bring citizens and governments closer together [click here to enlarge].

Contribute

All of our code is open-source, in line with our vision and values: https://github.com/lblod.

Local Decisions as Linked Open Data in FlandersGitHub