2. What is Irekia?
Open Government is a political philosophy that holds that
government and public administration activities must be open
in terms of transparency at all possible levels in order to
achieve greater citizen participation and improved regulation.
Irekia is a global project developed by the Government of the
Basque Country and promoted by the Lehendakari that aims
to improve transparency within the administration and ensure
that public opinion makes a difference.
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3. 3 fundamental mainstays
Transparency Participation Collaboration
Government activity Government proposals
Citizen proposals Citizen proposals
Audiovisual material
Active listening proposals Opinions on future
Full Recordings
Irekia proposals initiatives
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4. What is OpenIrekia?
The software developed for the Irekia project
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5. Functionality
• News management
• Citizen proposals
• Polls
• Agenda
• Photo and video management
• Comments
• RSS integration
• Statistics in real time
• Users and permissions
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6. News
• Planning and publishing
• Multimedia and documents
• Polls
• Multilingual
• Integration with agenda
• RSS, Twitter integration
• Structured by departments,
autonomous bodies, public
services
• RSS
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7. Programs
• Organised by government
structure
• Detailed permissions
• iCal synchronisation
• Multilingual
• Integrated with news
• Integrated with Twitter
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9. Video Library
Management
• Multiple formats
• iPad video playback support
via HTML5
• Automatic podcast
creation
• Channels
• Embedding in third‐party
websites
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11. Proposals and Comments
• Monitoring
• Redirection
• Official
• Imported from Twitter
• Anti‐spam
• RSS
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12. Statistics in Real Time
• Referrers
• Google searches
• Most viewed content
• Most commented
content
• Popular videos
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13. General Information
• Made for the Basque Government
• Complies with Basque Government
guidelines, such as the Style Guide, IE6
compatibility, etc.
• It is the result of ongoing iterations
• Components are integrated
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14. Technical Information:
What do we use?
• Linux
• Apache, lighttpd
• PostgreSQL
• Ruby and Ruby On Rails
• Erlang and CouchDB
• FFmpeg, ImageMagick
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15. Licence
• EUPL v 1.1
• What is this?
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16. Roadmap
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17. MILA ESKER!
THANK YOU!
CC‐‐‐BY
• http://open.irekia.net
• openirekia@efaber.net
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