Tagged: open data
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“Brutal transparency” on the DataMarket blog
I just posted a new entry on the DataMarket blog: Iceland: Restoring trust through open data and “brutal transparency”
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Hans Rosling strikes again
I’m a big fan of Hans Rosling. He’s really the guy that opened up the eyes of the world to the importance of availability of and open access to data. His latest presentation, from Google’s Zeitgeist08 conference, is now available on YouTube. It is not as stunning as his original TED eye-opener, b...
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The Case for Open Access to Public Sector Data
This article will be published tomorrow in The Reykjavík Grapevine. Government institutions and other public organizations gather a lot of data. Some of them – like the Statistics Office – have it as their main purpose, others as a part of their function, and yet others almost as a by-product of ...