Here are some things that caught our attention last week. If you’ve ever seen a map of Africa’s undersea cables, chances are it was made by Steve Song. He just released the July 2015 update of the map and I …
Open Institute is a think-do tank that works with governments and civil society organizations on open government, promoting transparency, accountability and multi-stakeholder participation in governance as key characteristics of an open government. Their work aims to institutionalize at both national …
The US government puts open data to serious use this week, shining a spotlight on Big Pharma’s influence on medical care, and pushing to solve world hunger. Meanwhile, Virginians just want to have some open data fun — and profit. …
Civic Awesome: Open Data in the News for the Week of July 13, 2015 Read more »
Using the API Explorer we looked at a question from the Eurofound European Quality of Life Survey to study the Portugal open data about how easy people in Portugal were finding it to make ends meet, which means are households …
Yesterday, France launched its first Open Government Partnership (OGP) action plan in Paris. Publish What You Fund welcomes the plan and is pleased to see that the document contains commitments for France’s development cooperation to become more transparent (see Commitment …
Originally published on 29th Jun 2015 Nobody talks much about the pitfalls of using open data in a real life project. I’ll make a start. My first real application of open data was to supplement the education pages on my wife’s …
Rezatec helps businesses map their land-based assets using complex information from Earth Observation (EO) and other data from a wide range of sources, including satellite images, to provide mapping, measuring and monitoring support. Located in the Harwell Space Cluster in …
If you need a product that provides an accurate retail background to support your decision making, this is it. Retail Places covers over 20,000 areas across the UK and captures any retail parades where there are at least 3 units. …
The United Nations Financing for Development conference has ended and over 5,000 officials and activists are leaving Addis Ababa. The banners and flags are being packed away and the city’s hotels are returning to their usual role as a hub …
This is the fourth in a series of posts on data related the Millennium Development Goals based on the 2015 Edition of World Development Indicators. Millennium Development Goal 4 is to “Reduce child mortality” and is measured against a target …
MDG4: A dramatic decline in child mortality over the last 20 years Read more »