Open data and privacy
Cross-posted from the Open Data Research network site. On 1st August two IDRC research networks came together for a web meeting to explore Open Data and Privacy. The Privacy in the Developing World...
View ArticleReflections on developing a global sectoral open data initiative: agriculture...
At the 2012 G-8 Summit leaders committed to a ‘New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition ‘, and as part of the follow up to the US G8 presidency in April this year the World Bank hosted the ‘G8...
View ArticleCfP: Open Data Track – 2014 Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government
I’m co-chairing a track on ‘Open Data, Transparency and Open Innovation‘ at the next CeDEM Conference for E Democracy and Open Government, taking place at Danube University Krems in May next year. The...
View ArticleWeb Observatories: The Governance Dimensions
Governance & Sustainability for a Web Observatory I’m in a workshop at MIT today about plans to create a ‘Web Observatory’, collecting and curating vast quantities of data from across the web for...
View ArticleOpen Data Barometer: 2013 Global Report launched
Last Thursday the study I’ve spent the last five month working on with the Web Foundation was formally launched in the Open Government Data Working Group session of the Open Government Partnership...
View ArticleOpen Data and Improving Governance: issues of measurement
I was speaking at the Institute for International Economic Policy this afternoon at George Washington University at a conference on “Known-Knowns and Unknowns about the Internet: Measuring the...
View ArticleA diverse open data discourse?
[Summary: on the need for greater diversity in the open data discourse in 2014] 2014 is going to see a lot of Open Data conferences and events around the world, particularly in developing countries,...
View ArticleCall for Papers: JeDEM Special Issue on Open Government Data and Open Policies
See the full call here. Special Issue on Open Government Data and open policies Special Issue 01/2014: Open Government Data and Policies Guest Editors Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany...
View ArticleData standards and inclusion in the network society
This note is based on a presentation given at the ‘Inclusion in the Network Society Roundtable‘ hosted by IT For Change in Bangalore, 29th September – 1st October. It further develops a number of...
View ArticleThe limited promise of (open data) research automation
[Summary: adding to the network of discussion around open data measurement] Earlier this week the 2nd Edition of the Open Data Barometer launched: a project I’ve worked on over the last two years,...
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