Montrose, providers of international development solutions and project management, have joined GODAN following the 3rd International Open Data Conference in Ottawa.  Montrose has strong language capabilities and a history of project delivery with partners in Asia and Africa http://www.montroseint.com/about  

Freelance journalist Flavie Halais provides in-depth coverage of the Agriculture and Nutrition debate at IODC 7 challenges the agriculture sector must address to unleash the data revolution Her review of the discussion, published by Devex, includes quotes from GODAN partners …

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Today’s public has a complicated relationship with the police, but a little governance may simplify things yet. In an attempt to increase trust with the public, Kentucky’s Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) recently opened three data sets: hate crimes, citations and …

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For comms people the message ‘look at the data’ is important to shape what you do, what you say and who you say it to. The open data movement and communications people should be best friends. The trouble is, they …

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Here at OpenSensors we are committed to making it as easy as possible to get started with your IOT projects. You can now have the ability to post messages through OpenSensors using HTTP-POST as well as MQTT. To post a …

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Introduction I’m Rufus Pollock. In 2004 I founded a non-profit called Open Knowledge The mission we set ourselves was to open up all public interest information – and see it used to create insight that drives change. What sort of …

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Libraries can evoke tired assumptions. It could be a stack of battered books and yesteryear movies; that odd odor of wilted pages and circa-1970s decor; or it could be a bout of stereotypes, like obsolete encyclopedias and ruler-snapping librarians. Whatever …

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Data-minded health startups rejoiced Tuesday over new and unprecedented access to the nation’s largest repository of health data: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services digital archive. Acting CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt made the announcement in Washington, …

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When we started work on Beyond the Smart City we set out with an idea of the themes we wanted to cover and a list of speakers who’d help us get them across. Over the past few months that list …

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