Italian government ditches transparency and open data
This post is a translation of Il nostro contributo per salvare gli #OpenData originally published by Ernesto Belisario on Agorà Digitale. Most links point to documents and websites in Italian.…
Keeping track of the European Parliament
The following guest post is by Stef. ###European Union legislation: In whose interest? Brussels is a globally important policy-making center. The European single market is advanced and huge, with industry…
Wrapping up Open Data Day 2013
Open Data Day 2013 took place on the 23rd of February – and it was great! From curious citizens to journalists, tech-geeks to scientists, designers to data wranglers, hundreds of…
Content Mining in Europe: Further Licensing is Not The Only Way
A significant number of groups who support knowledge policies for the public good, including ourselves, have signed and published a letter of concern arising from one of the working groups…
An open goal that can’t be missed: 2015 and open data
STOP PRESS: UN holds consultation. Okay, so this may not be the most groundbreaking of introductions. It’s up there with such bombshells as “man catches bus” and “comedian tells joke”…
Open Data on the Web Workshop April 2013
The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) together with the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Open Data Institute, are pleased to invite you to join a jointly organized workshop to discuss how…
Expanded Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research
On Friday 22nd February, 2013 the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a statement to say that the “Obama Administration is committed to the proposition that citizens deserve…
Open Data & My Data
The Open Knowledge Foundation believes in open knowledge: not just that some data is open and freely usable, but that it is useful – accessible, understandable, meaningful, and able to…
How open data could transform the citizen-government relationship in Uganda
This blog is cross-posted from the AidInfo blog. This Saturday is Open Data Day, a global initiative that encourages citizens around the world to show support for and encourage the…
Preregistration in the Social Sciences: A Controversy and Available Resources
This blog post is cross-posted from the Open Economics Blog. For years now, the practice preregistering clinical trials has worked to reduce publication bias dramatically (Drummond Rennie offers more details).…