Feature: One of the Government’s ‘champion’ projects is now providing the scope for the proactive use of data from a range of local sources

The aim of this paper is to critically explore whether crowdsourced Big Data enables an inclusive humanitarian response at times of crisis. We argue that all data, including Big Data, are socially constructed artefacts that reflect the contexts and processes …

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Originally published at: http://www.jedem.org/index.php/jedem/article/view/390 Frederika Welle Donker, Bastiaan van Loenen Abstract: Since 2009, Open Government Data initiatives have been launched worldwide and the concept of open data is gaining momentum. Open data are often associated with realizing ambitions, such as a …

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