Data is playing an increasingly-prominent role in business as more records are made more easily available through open data portals and public APIs. Writing for DigitalGov back in April, Bill Brantley discussed the importance of government data to the US …
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Open Data — data that is freely available online for anyone to use and republish for any purpose — is being widely recognized as a resource with economic and social value. In recent years, several studies — including those led by …
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Louise Corti is our UK Data Service supervisor for the #EULife AppChallenge. She’s a data science expert and an Associate Director at the UK Data Service. We asked her why Open Data was so important for the future of the …
This post is the first post in our Decoding Open Data series. The foundation of this series is our slideshare, which examines the open dataset and provides key insights and analytics about the 2011 Census. Decoding Open Data: 2011 Indian …
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President Barack Obama speaks at a September 2014 meeting of the Open Government Partnership. (Pete Souza/White House) A leading international organization on open government may soon welcome state and local governments into its membership. The proposal is one of many the Open …
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We understand the temptation for the federal government to focus primarily on the “retail” side of government — i.e. delivering public goods and services directly to citizens. After all, in a democracy a government’s customers are also its boss. Getting retail right …
By Luda Bujoreanu Cross posted from the IC4D Blog Back in June I rushed to take a front seat at one of the World Bank conference rooms to hear Dr. Hans Rosling speak. We had met years ago in Moldova, …
In an earlier post I overviewed the progress being made in improving transparency in Commonwealth grants spending, exemplified (or so I thought) by the publication of the Indigenous Advancement Strategy grants data at the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet website. …
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Cross posted from the IC4D Blog Back in June I rushed to take a front seat at one of the World Bank conference rooms to hear Dr. Hans Rosling speak. We had met years ago in Moldova, and just …
What Open Data Can Do for Africa’s Growing Population Read more »
Full functionality is now offered on pages of federal government services, including TSA Checkpoints, national parks, and other federal government “B2C” services. We are excited to announce that Yelp has concluded an agreement with the federal government that will allow …