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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Scottish city embraces IoT and open data

Freedom of information access comes at a cost. In 2011-12 financial year the estimated costs of administering the Freedom of Information Act 1991 (SA) was reported to be $10.4 million (The Hon I.K.Hunter- Hansard 16/10/14). Records indicate 85% of Freedom of …

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Solid vs cavity walls Modern homes tend to be built with cavity walls. These came into widespread use after the Second World War and consist of two walls about 10cm thick, with a 5 to 8 mm cavity between them. …

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Analysis by PwC shows five to tenfold return on investment for seven projects in Challenge Series A series of open data projects have provided evidence of the potential value to the UK economy, according to a report published today by …

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The 2015 Africa Open Data Conference took place in Dar Es Salaam, in Tanzania, in September 2015. The presentations have been published, and a selection are previewed here: [gview file=”http://dd7.000.myftpupload.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/10/PRESIDENT-SPEECH-DURING-OPENING-OF-AFRICA-OPEN-DATA-CONFERENCE-00000002.pdf”]

Open Data Camp UK have published one of my posts telling you a bit about our sponsorship of the upcoming Open Data Camp in Manchester. The second camp of the year; it’ll be held on the 10-11 October at The …

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The U.S. Department of Transportation is looking to create a better way for the public to figure out what addresses are accurate. (Pixabay) The Transportation Department is in the very early stages of trying to build the first publicly accessible …

Coming Soon: An open database of every U.S. address Read more »

During day one, lightning talks and break-out sessions will ignite the discussion around themes and challenges (health, energy, transport, etc.). For the rest of the weekend, participants will be given the opportunity to design solutions for these challenges by working with suitable data. …

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We all know the future has data at its centre, and that we need to uncover and recognise the value of our data to take full advantage of its potential – whether internally, externally or strategically. How many of us …

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