Readers: The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue at http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. This special issue edited by Tim Davies and Zainab Bawa is being offered as a constructive contribution to the developing debates and practices of Open Government Data - as global infrastructures, technical architectures, and grassroots movements co-evolve. It is published as a rolling issue, with an initial set of papers made available in April 2012, and a further set of papers (currently going through the review process), and field notes (responding to emerging themes) to be published later in the year. Our hope is that this provides a way to combine the editorial and review processes of putting together a journal issue, with a rapidly emerging and evolving field, where developments far outpace the speed of conventional scholarly publishing. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics, Vancouver CANADA Phone 604-602-0624 gurstein@gmail.com The Journal of Community Informatics Special Issue: Community Informatics and Open Government Data Table of Contents http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/41 Editorial -------- The Promises and Perils of Open Government Data (OGD) Tim G. Davies, Zainab Ashraf Bawa Two Worlds of Open Government Data: Getting the Lowdown on Public Toilets in Chennai and Other Matters Michael Gurstein Articles -------- "This is what modern deregulation looks like" : co-optation and contestation in the shaping of the UK's Open Government Data Initiative Jo Bates Design Issues for Building Deliberative Digital Habitats Fiorella De Cindio The Rhetoric of Transparency and its Reality: Transparent Territories, Opaque Power and Empowerment Bhuvaneswari Raman Data Template For District Economic Planning Sharadini Rath Notes from the field -------- Open Data - what the citizens really want Wolfgang Both Some Observations on the Practice of "Open Data" As Opposed to Its Promise Roland J. Cole Apps For Amsterdam Tom Demeyer Collecting data in Chennai City and the limits of openness Nithya V Raman Notes and cases from the field (practitioners) -------- Mapping the Tso Kar basin in Ladakh Shashank Srinivasan ________________________________________________________________________ The Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net