Glasgow turns to smart lights, apps and Uber-style services to evolve as smart city
Scottish city embraces IoT and open data
Devo-South: a report on devolution and business
Devo-South: a report on devolution and business What are the challenges facing southern England, how can devolution empower local leadership to tackle them, and what do business leaders make of the opportunities offered by the government’s decentralisation agenda? Download the …
The open data map of oil concessions extends to 16 countries in the Middle East
OpenOil is happy to announce the second stage of the world’s first open data map of oil concessions – the Middle East and North Africa. The addition includes 15 jurisdictions across the region, from Oman and Iraqi Kurdistan in the …
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How Linked Data Solved A Digital Age Marketing Problem
Founder of Apiwise and 15-year veteran of the API space, Dimitri van Hees began his APIcon talk by putting this up on the screen: 0641011744. Is it a number? A registration number? A New Zealand phone number? Maybe a flight …
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Open Data 500 Australia
Are you using open government data? Make sure your opinion counts! If you’re using any Australian Government data as part of your business operations, make sure you complete the Open Data 500 Australia. The Open Data 500 Australia is the …
SA Police Reduce Costs Through Proactive Open Data
Freedom of information access comes at a cost. In 2011-12 financial year the estimated costs of administering the Freedom of Information Act 1991 (SA) was reported to be $10.4 million (The Hon I.K.Hunter- Hansard 16/10/14). Records indicate 85% of Freedom of …
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Florida performs inventory ahead of open data push
Florida’s expansive open records laws have IT leaders preparing a new push to open up the state’s data. Jason Allison, the state’s chief information officer, said staff at his Agency for State Technology are taking steps to start the “inventory …
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Defra to open up Family Food Survey data
Survey results going back to the 1940s will be released in the department’s latest contribution to the open data campaign Data from the Family Food Survey is now in line to be made available for re-use as part of …
Open Data Power: Better Natural Resource Management
In this four-part series, we explore the ways that open data transforms the world. Sound extreme? Putting data behind seemingly intractable problems is the best way to tackle them, whether it’s providing access to nutritious food, combating disease, saving the …
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How Solomon Dashboard wants to help reporters work with data about their local patch
Screenshot of the Solomon storyboard, where users can search for stories to personalise their canvases
Credit: By Alex Liivet on Flickr. Some rights reserved. “I have always been of a mind that data can be very elitist and that you’ve got to be quite technical to understand it,” So Mark Barrett, director at Hebe Works, …
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