Birmingham City Council recently announced that they would be “opening up the council’s vast amounts of data, so members of the public can judge our performance.” Their first offering is a “a dashboard that outlines how well each ward is …

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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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It is increasingly recognised that some of the most important open data is published by local authorities (LAs) – data which is important to us like bin collection days, planning applications and even where your local public toilet is. Also …

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A recent editorial referred to Edmonton, Alberta as the “City of Open Data Champions” based on its many achievements related to open data applications and civic engagement. Over the past five years, Edmonton has transformed its municipal perspective on the …

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This post was originally published at: http://theodi.org/blog/open-data-monitor-open-data-resources From the beginning of the open data movement, proponents of the cause have been gathering evidence to demonstrate the economic, social and environmental value of open data. The OpenDataMonitor project has gathered a comprehensive, …

OpenDataMonitor gathers over 500 open data resources Read more »

An app to collate “pockets of best practice” around the publication of open data sets for local authorities to add their own data, incorporate data into their own website or software and reduce Freedom of Information requests has gone live. …

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