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

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 easy to convince governments that decisions regarding how data is collected, shared and used have st...

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 license and in machine-readable formats — between scientists, local and national governments and co...