The “Open Data for Policymakers” e-learning course is designed to provide a general overview of Open Data principles and best practices for public policymakers, with focus on the development and ...

In the beginning, data was closed. Although we have been ‘transporting’ data between different locations, systems and resources since the time of the first databases and personal computers in the ...

The Overture Maps Foundation, a project to standardize map data, was founded in December 2022 by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, and is hosted by the Linux Foundation. I talked to Marc Prioleau ...

Benjamin is a business consultant, coach, designer, musician, artist, and writer, living in the remote mountains of Vermont. He has 20+ years experience in tech, an educational background in the arts, ...

Despite a lack of consensus on what open data means, organizations and open source projects are tackling it as we move into the future of computing. If “open source” was the rallying cry of the past ...

Across the region, the potential of open data still hasn’t been fully recognised as a driver for good governance. Analysis of data.gov portals show that though data is available in machine-readable ...