Perhaps it was only a matter of time before Twitter actually started working with real, live birds. The company with a bird logo and that gave us the “tweet” has partnered with Plume Labs of Paris and DigitasLBi to launch a…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: Monitoring
Twitter and Paris’ Plume Labs launch pigeons with air pollution sensors over skies of London
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Environment, Informing Decision-making, Internet of Things, Neat tools, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Quality of life, Research, Smart communities Tagged with: air pollution, data, Monitoring, pigeons, Plume, Sensors, venturebeat
How can open data publishers monitor usage?
Some open data publishers require a user to register with their portal or provide other personal information before downloading a dataset. For example: the recently launched Consumer Data Research …
Posted in Benefits of open data, How, Posts from feeds, Smart communities Tagged with: API, downloads, Leigh Dodds, Monitoring, open data, statistics, usage
Can Open Data Help Save the Amazon?
“The bathroom’s down the hall,” Gustavo Faleiros tells me, as we speak one June afternoon in his sunny São Paulo apartment. “But there’s no running water.” Residents of his building in the middle-class neighborhood of Pompéia have agreed to alternate…
Posted in Posts from feeds Tagged with: Amazon, Claire Rigby, data, Good Magazine, Gustavo Faleiros, InfoAmazonia, mapping, Monitoring, open data, São Paulo, Water, water quality
Engaging more data actors in the Philippines for disaster response
Whenever there is an emergency in the Philippines, various organisations and institutions organise themselves into emergency clusters and working groups to increase the effectiveness of the response. One of the crucial elements of disaster response is information management. In various emergency contexts,…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public safety Tagged with: disaster, disaster response, emergency, evacuation, Kobo Toolbox, Monitoring, People, Philippines, population, School of Data, Typhoon
Help us Follow the Money
Did you know that nine out of ten Africans do not have adequate access to their government’s budget documents? Why is this a problem? Secrecy around how public money is used often leads to corruption, poor quality delivery of services…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Transparency Tagged with: budget, Corruption, Government, Joseph Kraus, Money, Monitoring, open data, Open Government Partnership, Transparency
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
Reducing errors and delays in collecting millions of World Food Programme data points
Dennis Kinambuga is a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), where he supports the monitoring and evaluation of the World Food Programme’s Purchase for Progress project in 17 countries. In his guest post on Nafundi‘s…
Posted in Informing Decision-making, Posts from feeds, Public Health Tagged with: data, Dennis Kinambuga, evaluation, Monitoring, Nafundi, OpenDataKit, Purchase for Progress (P4P), Rwanda, World Food Programme