Open Knowledge in partnership with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism is pleased to announce the launch of Data Journalism Ph 2015. Supported by the World Bank, the program will train journalists and citizen media in producing high-quality, data-driven stories. …
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Culture Everywhere, a new platform that helps organisations develop fundable arts projects for social good, has scooped a £50,000 cash prize. The project has won the Heritage & Culture award in the Open Data Challenge Series, a national competition run …
Culture Everywhere wins UK open data startup challenge Read more »
All Cats (Microbiomes) are Grey? Regular readers will have seen our interest in “community genome” projects, supported by crowdfunding and alternative means (fashion shows in case of the “peoples parrot”), and we’ve been pleased to see the Azolla fern and …
Community Microbiomes: Chatting Cat Scat with Kittybiome’s Holly Ganz Read more »
Establishing working groups to address real world agriculture and nutrition problems by aligning Partner activities with GODAN Action Pillars GODAN Partners and the Secretariat drafted an outline of how to address real world agriculture and nutrition problem with open data …
(Blog post by Hyshyama Hamin, Programme Office, Making All Voices Count) The concept of pitching competitions and incubation is not at all new in the tech and innovation space, where individuals, groups and organizations have pitched ideas for start-ups, apps …
Reflections on #Tech4Gov Competition in Pakistan Read more »
My pal Mark spent a lot of time compiling data on road traffic accidents in Bath and turned it into this mesmerising timelapse map. In not untypical developer fashion, he then plonked it on the Interweb, sent a tweet and …
Today, Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) and a bipartisan group of cosponsors are holding a press conference to introduce the Financial Transparency Act of 2015. This landmark legislation would bring a new level of consistency and transparency to federal financial data …
6.30pm – 8.30pm Tuesday 26th May 2015 Greenheys Business Centre Manchester Science Park Pencroft Way Manchester M15 6JJ Map here Sign up on Eventbrite here This month’s Open Data Manchester will be an informal get together and a chance to see …
What is this all about? Each year, housing partners work together to update our understanding of the housing market locally. Part of this assessment includes looking at housing affordability. We publish a range of information in our Strategic Housing Market …
Data, data, everywhere, and all the nerds did think; data, data, everywhere, yet nothing with which to link. (Photo via John Crowe/Flickr) Thanks to the efforts over the past few decades of the open government community, a large and hard-won …