From EPSI Platform (European Public Sector Information Platform): The World Wide Web Foundation promotes building a global directory of open data references and related information resources. The Open Data Directory (ODD) will host a variety of resources, such as: use cases, case studies, stories and anecdotes, methodologies, strategies, business cases, papers, reports, articles, blog posts, training [...]
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Business Research: How Open is Company Data in Open Government Partnership Countries? (New Report)
Filed by on April 16, 2012
From the Open Corporates Blog: OpenCorporates is publishing a major new report into access to company data in OGP countries, and the picture is not good. Out of a total of a possible 100 points, the average score was just 21, with several major countries (including Spain, Greece and Brazil) scoring zero. A score of 100 [...]
The State of Illinois Open Data Portal Expands, 4700 Federal Datasets Containing Illinois Info Added
Filed by on November 7, 2011
From the Illinois Government News Network: Governor Pat Quinn [has] announced a major expansion of the information available on Illinois’ open data portal, Data.Illinois.gov. The state recently received approval from the federal government to provide more than 4,700 additional datasets containing Illinois-related information collected by a number of federal agencies. This brings total datasets available [...]
Reference: USAID Releases Open Data and Maps on Famine in the Horn of Africa
Filed by on September 19, 2011
From the Development Seed Blog: This afternoon at Mashable’s Social Good Summit, USAID launched a new open data and information sharing initiative around the famine in the Horn of Africa. With this, USAID aims to take the lead in providing data to help in the response – and wants to release as much data as [...]
Alpha Launch: Online Database: "Release of DataCatalogs.org to Map Open Data Around the World"
Filed by on June 30, 2011
From a Blog Post by Jonathan Gray on the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog: We’re very pleased to announce an alpha version of datacatalogs.org, a website to help keep track of open data catalogues from around the world. The project is being launched to coincide with our annual conference, OKCon 2011. The project was borne out [...]
U.S. Government: Budget For Online Data Transparency Projects CUT (From $34 Million to $8 Million)
Filed by on April 13, 2011
From a Sunlight Foundation Blog Post by Dan Schuman: Details emerging last night on the FY 2011 budget agreement indicate that the electronic government fund will be cut to $8m from the $34 million appropriated in FY 2010, a reduction to 1/4 of its previous funding. As I explained previously, some projects facing defunding include [...]
