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Jonathan Gray

Dr. Jonathan Gray is author of Public Data Cultures and Reader in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. He is also Cofounder of the Public Data Lab; and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris). More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org.

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
September 4, 2013

The world needs better lobbyist registers – but the UK’s proposed lobbying bill won’t help

Lobbyist registers are supposed to enable citizens to find out who is lobbying whom for what, and how much they are spending in the process. They are supposed to help…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
September 3, 2013

How can open data lead to better data quality?

Open data can be freely used by anyone – which means that data users can help to fix, enrich or flag problems with the data, leading to improvements in its…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
August 22, 2013

The Data Journalism Handbook now available in French, Spanish and Russian

Last year the Open Knowledge Foundation worked with the European Journalism Centre to publish the Data Journalism Handbook, a free, openly licensed reference book showing journalists how to use data…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
August 21, 2013

Beneficial ownership registries should be published as open data

In the coming months many governments around the world will decide whether databases of who really owns and controls companies should be made public or not. As we’ve said before,…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
August 8, 2013

Natural resource revenues should be published as open data

Who pays what for a given country’s natural resources? With billions of dollars changing hands for access to oil, gas and mineral reserves every year, there is huge potential for…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
July 30, 2013

What’s the deal with the UK government’s new spending tool?

We were pleasantly surprised to learn that this morning the UK government launched a new tool to explore UK public spending. The ‘Government Interrogating Spending Tool’ (fear not – you…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
July 11, 2013

Using public data to flag tax avoidance schemes?

This post was jointly written by Jonathan Gray (@jwyg), Director of Policy and Ideas at the Open Knowledge Foundation and Tony Hirst (@psychemedia), Data Storyteller at the Open Knowledge Foundation’s…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
July 11, 2013

Using public data to flag tax avoidance schemes?

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
July 1, 2013

UK Open Government Licence is now compliant with the Open Definition

On Friday the UK National Archives launched a new version of the Open Government Licence, which is now the default licence used by the UK government to publish the lion’s…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
June 26, 2013

How is Obama’s new climate action plan going to use open data to tackle climate change?

Last night US President Barack Obama announced a major new action plan to fight climate change. The plan includes measures to regulate coal, cut emissions in many areas, boost green…

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