Our environment hack day is upon us! While we finalise the last minute preparations, we thought it would be useful to give a quick overview of the new and updated datasets that have been published this week. Geographical Data On Monday we……
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: environment
Arguments for data transparency — a list for advocates
The benefits of openness can be found around the globe. In these past few years working with local transparency activists, I have been collecting examples on how opening up data (especially government data) can help improve our lives. What I’ve…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Environment, Food, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Quality of life, Research, Resilience, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: Agriculture, criminal justice, deforestation, environment, farming, fracking, health, Julia Keseru, Lindsay Ferris, open data, pollution, real-time, Sunlight Foundation, Transparency, weather
NSW Office of Environment and Heritage switches to open data
The NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) has worked to improve access to its BioNet database, which includes data on biodiversity, endangered species and native vegetation.
Posted in Posts from feeds Tagged with: biodiversity, BioNet, Bonnie Gardiner, CIO, environment, New South Wales, open data, standards
Here’s How Many People Die Each Day in China Because of Its Filthy Air
Air pollution is killing about 1.6 million people every year in China, or nearly 4,400 people every day, accounting for seventeen percent of all the country’s deaths, a new study has found. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley found…
Posted in Posts from feeds Tagged with: air, Air Quality, China, data, environment, health, PLOS ONE, pollution, public health, research, University of California, US Environmental Protection Agency, Vice News
Internet Of Earth Things
This is a post from the field on a National Geographic supported expedition to explore the Okavango River system from source to sand. 90 days, 1,000 miles, 3 countries, 2 rivers, 31 adventurers, 100% open data. Join us in real-time…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: conservation, Earth, engineering, environment, expedition, iAfrikan, Internet of Things (IoT), Monitoring, National Geographic, Okavango River, open data, real-time, science, Sensors, Shah Selbe
Farming it out: Is Defra’s latest open data push the shape of things to come?
Environment secretary Liz Truss has hailed Defra’s new Open Data Initiative as the biggest ever “data give-away” by government. But what will it mean in practice? Mark Rowe reports It’s a sunny day and canoeists across England head for the…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Saving money, Smart communities, Transparency Tagged with: bathing water, beaches, Civil Service World, DEFRA, environment, farming, Mark Rowe, open data, opendefra, rivers, soil
Are you ready for disruption?
July 15 2015 | General | UK | Last week, Elizabeth Truss MP, the UK’s Environment Secretary, announced that over the next year virtually all of her department’s data will be opened up for full and public access – amounting to more…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: Cultura, DEFRA, Disruption, environment, Geomatics, open data, opendefra
Making the most of data: making data more open
A while back, I published an article on the use of open data sets, covering some of the things that were already being done and what may be possible in the near- to mid-term. After this was published, David Patterson…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, Greater efficiency, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Internet of Things, Journalism, Posts from feeds, Public safety, Saving money, Visualising data Tagged with: Clive Longbottom, Computer Weekly, data, David Patterson, environment, Environment Agency, flood, Flood Event Model, Hursley, IBM, Internet of Things (IoT), Know Now, ODI, open data, predictive analytics, public safety, reactive, research, weather, WUDoWUD