Open Data Charter News Today

Data interoperability is another one of the six international Open Data Charter principles which we encourage governments to adopt when they launch their journey toward open data.

This week the Sapes Trust will be hosting an online dialogue around the question, ‘Who killed Thulani Maseko?’

Uruguay 2100 has been selected as the winner of the Open Climate Data Challenge in Uruguay, a challenge supported by Microsoft and the Open Data Institute The challenge In July 2022, the M...

Climate Justice Coalition Movement is leading a march for ‘Jobs, Clean Energy and Climate Justice’; Daily Maverick is hosting The Gathering.

A two-day conference on collective action for beneficial ownership transparency is taking place at the Cape Sun Hotel in Cape Town; Black Sash is launching its report on the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress Grant; and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation is hosting an online discussion on how socie...

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MySociety provides technology, research and data to help people be active citizens, in more than 40 countries around the world.

While clearly on the right path, Saudi Arabia still has a lot to do before it reaps the full benefits of open data.

• Different approaches to the problem can either reinforce or redress existing power imbalances. • Discussions are progressing about the institutions needed to achieve balanced data rights. 2020 was a year like no other. Amid many other lessons, the crises of the last year showed once and for all that how we manage and use data can both save and destroy lives. As the founder of the Open Data Charter, I have campaigned for a fairer balance of data rights for a decade. It has not always been ...

This article originally was published on World Resources Institute. In the aftermath of the 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Aceh, Indonesia, in 2016, disaster managers were able to able to identify which communities were at greatest risk due to rapid access to data. They used the open source InaSAFE platform to access real-time hazard data and modeled population data mapped down to the village level. This was made possible by the collaborative use of "open" data — data that is free to use, open l...