This is a guest post by Leo Valberg, Senior Data Scientist at Nquiringminds. This post was originally published on the Nquiringminds blog. The Open City Data Platform is one of the initiatives the Hampshire Hub Partnership is involved with.  #1 The …

Back story: the data journey in the production of the GP pressure map Read more »

This site has been designed using various open source technologies, including Drupal for handling the presentation and page requests (front-end), and CKAN for the back-end catalogue and content management service. Having reached this important milestone, Croatia has now gained 50 …

Croatian Government unveils national Open Data Portal Read more »

This is a guest post, written by David Patterson of Know Now Information, about the Whether You Do or Weather You Don’t (WUDoWUD) initiative. It was originally published on the Know Now blog. Our WUDoWUD project has seen significant progress …

Flooding & WUDoWUD. What’s in a name? Read more »

European Parliament approves eCall connected car platform The Internet of Things threatens to revolutionise everyday life, embedding and imbuing everyday objects and the world around us with sensors, software and electronics. Through machine-to-machine communication, automation and advanced analytics, we are …

European Parliament Approves eCall Technology Read more »

Solid information on population counts by region and sub-region is vital for the ongoing local planning of services, such as schools, children’s centres and transport provisions and infrastructure. Such data also comes into its own for contingency planning for, and …

Data Story: Population estimates – Why are they useful? Read more »

source: GFIA 15 A roundtable session on open data in agriculture was recently held during recent Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA) 2015, held in Abu Dhabi. The roundtable session, convened by the CGIAR, looked at the current open …

GODAN at Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA) 2015 Read more »

The first official panel for the Sensor Journalism Series, with Matt Schroyer, Travis Hartman, Shah Selbe, and Willie Schubert took place on March 8th. There are several more events in the series, all of which can be found at http://sensorjournalism.okcast.org. …

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On Open Data Day (Saturday 21 February) people around the world used open public data to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses and encouraged the adoption open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. In the lead up …

Brussels Briefing “Data: the next revolution for agriculture in ACP countries?” Read more »

Local Open Data: Reaping the Benefits is getting closer and we’re delighted to announce the first release of tickets – get them while they’re hot! We’re also really pleased to announce more great speakers who’ll be sharing their experience and …

Swirrl Local Open Data Event – More Speakers Announced and Early Bird Tickets released! Read more »

GODAN is focused on building high-level policy, and public and private institutional support for open data. It encourages collaboration and cooperation among existing agriculture and open data activities and brings together stakeholders to solve long-standing global problems like food and nutritional …

Exploring the key issues in agriculture, nutrition and open data Read more »