The United States will join the United Kingdom, the ONE campaign, Presidents United to Solve Hunger (PUSH), the Government of Kenya, and the GODAN Secretariat to form a planning committee for a 2016 GODAN Summit. GODAN partners are invited to join …

New partners to join the US and UK Governments to plan for GODAN 2016 Summit Read more »

Central America is one of the world’s most violent regions. Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala have the highest homicide rates in the world. These countries grapple with narco-trafficking, gang violence, corruption, the proliferation of guns, and weak government institutions. Can …

USAID LACHack: Use Open Data to Fight Crime Read more »

By Joel Gurin Start a business. Manage your power use. Find cheap rents, or avoid crime-ridden neighborhoods. Cities and their citizens worldwide are discovering the power of “open data”–public data and information available from government and other sources that can …

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As a global community, we are producing data at an astounding rate. The pace was recently described as a “new Google every four days” by the highly respected Andreesen Horowitz partner, Peter Levine, in a thought-provoking post addressing the challenge …

Open Data: Going Beyond Solving Problems to Making the Impossible Possible Read more »