Today, the Web Foundation joined international governments, businesses, and civil society organisations in pledging to tackle the data crisis through the formation of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. The Partnership, which will be formally launched in September at …

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José M. Alonso, Program Manager Open Data, on why open data must be part of the conversation at the Third International Conference on Financing for Development this week As governments come together in Addis Ababa to finalise how the new …

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The Open Data movement and the Right to Information movement have many shared aims. The potential for benefit to citizens if these two groups collaborate effectively is significant. In this post, the Web Foundation’s Open Data Research lead, Savita Bailur, …

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Now that the Web Foundation team is back from the 3rd Annual International Open Data Conference in Ottawa (and recovered from our participation in eight side events and 11 conference sessions), we’ve compared notes and are ready to share some …

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Today sees the release of a landmark report into the UK’s surveillance regime, by David Anderson QC. Here, the World Wide Web Foundation, which was established by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, provides an initial response: Renata Avila, Campaign Manager …

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