Before companies can use Open Data (defined as government data that is deliberately shared in a machine-readable format for free reuse by others), it has to earn a reputation for reliability. No company wants to use inconsistent data sets full …

Are There Just Too Many [Open Data Publishing] Cooks in the Kitchen? Read more »

I was playing one of the games in the SimCity series recently when it struck me that this and similar games are a very good model for what we want from Smart Cities. Let me explain what I mean. All …

SimCity or Smart City? Read more »

I decided to write a positive blog about Open Data; it’s an area I believe has a lot of potential and value. The only problem is that once I started I began to think about the complexities of it, it’s …

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of Open Data Read more »