In 1899, Charles H. Duell, Commissioner at the US. Office of Patents, declared: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” Good old Charles won’t go down in history alone for his poor forecasting skills. He will be joined by…
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: UNICEF
The future of data
Created automatically from RSS feed
Posted in Benefits of open data, Data, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Open Government, Posts from feeds, Quality of life, Smart communities, Transparency
Tagged with: data, data collaboratives, Future, Global Innovation Summit, Helsinki, Natalia Adler, open data, UNICEF
Extractives remediation & public health — open data advocacy in Nigeria
Created automatically from RSS feed
Posted in Aid, Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Open Government, Posts from feeds, Public Health, Public safety, Resilience, Saving money, Transparency
Following a recent lead poisoning epidemic in the Zamfara State of Northern Nigeria — the result of the local artisanal gold mining operations — local non-profit organisation Follow The Money took immediate action against their corrupt local government who they…
Tagged with: advocacy, Aid, Bagega, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), extractive industries, Follow The Money, funds, gold, lead poisoning, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), mining, Nigeria, OKFN, Oludotun Babayemi, open data, Open Data Handbook, pollution, Rahul Ghosh, remediation, SaveBagega, TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering, treatment, UNICEF
Top