“It’s really powerful. It’s in people’s hands; it’s in people’s homes. How do we use it for the greater good?”. GODAN partner VOTO Mobile is a three-year old Ghana-based tech startup and social enterprise which helps businesses, governments, and NGOs use …
‘Open Data as Open Educational Resources: Towards transversal skills and global citizenship‘ is one of the research articles featured in the ICDE Prizes for Innovation and Best Practice journal 2015. The paper, authored by Javiera Atenas, Leo Havemann, and Ernesto Priego, offers …
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One must think of government data like matchstick; it must be taken out of its box and lit. The first step to generating public trust in a government institution is to show it has nothing to hide. The disclosure of …
Tanzanian GODAN partner Agrinfo uses geodata to share farmland information and enable farmers to better manage their land. The organization does this, explains marketing director Jumo Ngomuo, by collecting the GPS locations of farms and assessing their ownership and area size, …
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Ajit Maru, Senior Knowledge Officer at the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR) shares his recent experience at the International Conference on Intelligent Agriculture, held in Beijing in September, 2015. Smart Agriculture While there may be many ways to …
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What better way to celebrate World Statistics Day than with the largest ever addition of data to Community Insight and Local Insight. Today we have added over 570 new indicators to Community Insight and Local Insight, giving our users access …
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Interview: Wendy Carrara and Dinand Tinhold, leads of the EU Data Portal project, talk about the lessons from two new studies on open data
This post is the third 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 Census …
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The Whitehall Monitor is the Institute for Government’s data journalism project. Today, just a week before the final Spending Review settlements are revealed, we launched our third annual report, ‘The Coalition in 163 charts’. Gavin Freeguard highlighted some of these …
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At the end of September, DCLG published the new 2015 Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) on the PublishMyData-powered OpenDataCommunities.org. This is one of the most widely used government datasets, so we’re really excited to help make it available in a …
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