Moving towards ‘open by default’
Interview: Wendy Carrara and Dinand Tinhold, leads of the EU Data Portal project, talk about the lessons from two new studies on open data
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A Step-by-Step Guide to the 2011 Indian Census: Its Successes, Failures and Questions
This post is the third post in our Decoding Open Data series. The foundation of this series is our slideshare, which examines the open dataset and provides key insights and analytics about the 2011 Census. Decoding Open Data: 2011 Indian Census …
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Whitehall Monitor 2015: the Coalition in 163 charts
The Whitehall Monitor is the Institute for Government’s data journalism project. Today, just a week before the final Spending Review settlements are revealed, we launched our third annual report, ‘The Coalition in 163 charts’. Gavin Freeguard highlighted some of these …
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New Deprivation Data and Apps for OpenDataCommunities
At the end of September, DCLG published the new 2015 Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) on the PublishMyData-powered OpenDataCommunities.org. This is one of the most widely used government datasets, so we’re really excited to help make it available in a …
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Devo-South: a report on devolution and business
Devo-South: a report on devolution and business What are the challenges facing southern England, how can devolution empower local leadership to tackle them, and what do business leaders make of the opportunities offered by the government’s decentralisation agenda? Download the …
The open data map of oil concessions extends to 16 countries in the Middle East
OpenOil is happy to announce the second stage of the world’s first open data map of oil concessions – the Middle East and North Africa. The addition includes 15 jurisdictions across the region, from Oman and Iraqi Kurdistan in the …
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How Linked Data Solved A Digital Age Marketing Problem
Founder of Apiwise and 15-year veteran of the API space, Dimitri van Hees began his APIcon talk by putting this up on the screen: 0641011744. Is it a number? A registration number? A New Zealand phone number? Maybe a flight …
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Florida performs inventory ahead of open data push
Florida’s expansive open records laws have IT leaders preparing a new push to open up the state’s data. Jason Allison, the state’s chief information officer, said staff at his Agency for State Technology are taking steps to start the “inventory …
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Defra to open up Family Food Survey data
Survey results going back to the 1940s will be released in the department’s latest contribution to the open data campaign Data from the Family Food Survey is now in line to be made available for re-use as part of …
Open Data Power: Better Natural Resource Management
In this four-part series, we explore the ways that open data transforms the world. Sound extreme? Putting data behind seemingly intractable problems is the best way to tackle them, whether it’s providing access to nutritious food, combating disease, saving the …
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