Étiquette : #OPENDATA ENG

Our response to the Geospatial Commission’s call for evidence focuses on the need to recognise that geospatial data is infrastructure Source : https://theodi.org/article/geospatial-data-is-infrastructure-our-response-to-the-uks-national-geospatial-strategy/ Date : August 19, 2019 at 11:12AM Tag(s) : #OPENDATA ENG, geospatial Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print

The Open Data Institute (ODI) has secured $2.5 million in funding from the Governance and Citizen Engagement Initiative at Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm established by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Source : https://theodi.org/article/the-odi-secures-2-5m-from-omidyar-network-to-help-deliver-its-mission-to-build-an-open-trustworthy-data-ecosystem/ Date : August 19, 2019 at 11:12AM Tag(s) : #OPENDATA ENG Share this… Email Facebook Twitter…

The Open Data Institute has released findings from new consumer research, conducted online by YouGov, revealing current attitudes of British adults online towards sharing personal data. The full dataset can be viewed here under an open licence Source : https://theodi.org/article/odi-survey-reveals-british-consumer-attitudes-to-sharing-personal-data/ Date : August 19, 2019 at 11:12AM Tag(s) : #OPENDATA ENG…

The size and number of businesses built on open data is growing every year. Citymapper is one of the best-known open data success stories Source : https://theodi.org/article/citymapper-executive-to-governments-open-more-data-so-we-can-improve-your-cities/ Date : August 19, 2019 at 11:12AM Tag(s) : #OPENDATA ENG Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print

This week’s list of data news highlights covers August 10-16, 2019, and includes articles about an AI system that predicts food product recalls and an AI system that tracks drug abuse in real-time. Source : https://www.datainnovation.org/2019/08/10-bits-the-data-news-hotlist-227/ Date : August 16, 2019 at 12:56PM Tag(s) : #OPENDATA ENG Share this… Email…

Congress wants federal agencies to gather more data about how satisfied citizens are with their services and to make that information available to the public. Last week, the Senate passed the Federal Agency Customer Experience Act. A companion bill is awaiting action in the House. The legislation would make it…

In June, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree establishing a national plan for the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT strategy is the culmination of a multi-year public-private partnership led by the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) and the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC). Source : https://www.datainnovation.org/2019/08/brazil-pushes-to-become-leader-in-the-internet-of-things/…

Open source success is supposed to be easy to measure, but here are some indicators you may not have considered. Source : https://www.techrepublic.com/article/3-things-you-dont-know-about-open-source/#ftag=RSS56d97e7 Date : August 9, 2019 at 09:18PM Tag(s) : #OPENDATA ENG Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print

The MIT Press has announced the release of a comprehensive report on the current state of all available open-source software for publishing. “Mind the Gap,” funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, “shed[s] light on the development and deployment of open source publishing technologies in order to…

Elliptic, a blockchain analytics firm, MIT, and IBM have released a dataset of 200,000 bitcoin transactions to foster the development of machine learning algorithms that can detect illicit transactions. The groups labeled the transactions, which total $6 billion, as licit, illicit and unknown. Each transaction also has an associated 166…