Joel Gurin, author of the book and website Open Data Now, knows everything there is to know about open data and how companies and entrepreneurs are using it to create and develop their businesses. Ope…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: interview
Interview: Alon Peled on open data, incentives, and ‘Traversing Digital Babel’
Governments across the world have attempted to improve their capacity for open data, with the UK improving its efforts since the turn of the decade markedly. Last year, Sean Kippin interviewed Alon Peled, an academic and computer software expert who…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Commercial opportunities, democracy, Informing Decision-making, Open Government, Posts from feeds Tagged with: Alon Peled, democracy, Democratic Audit, Digital Babel, interview, Sean Kippin, silos
Open source as a tool of cultural change
If you haven’t heard of 18F, it’s time to get them on your radar. 18F is a digital consultancy in an independent agency, a startup within the General Services Administration (GSA), and a major advocate for open source and open…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Neat tools, Posts from feeds Tagged with: 18F, All Things Open, Dashboard, interview, Jason Hibbets, Kaitlin Devine, local government, open data, open source
Wheels down, and first impressions from Chile
We’re two days into our on-the-ground research here in Santiago, Chile, and we’ve already conducted three interviews with prominent figures in the open data community. Each of our interviewees represented a different sector of Chilean society, giving us a really useful cross-section of…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: Chile, digital gover, innovation, interview, OKFN, open data, Pacman, Santiago, science, Transparency