In November 2016, Iran Open Data platform was launched — a civil society-developed open data platform that is working to gather, clean, and structure datasets published by the Iranian government, and make them freely available to citizens, journalists, and civil society stakeholders.After a year of
What impacts are you trying to achieve? How can you measure and assess it? And how can we do all of this better?Hello everyone! If you haven’t been following our blog, we recently organised the Open & Shut Conference, where we brought together a range of open data experts and practitioners to discus
What do communities look like? How do they organise? Who gets to participate? What constraints do they face?Hello everyone! If you haven’t been following our blog, we recently organised the Open & Shut Conference, where we brought together a range of experts and open data practitioners to discuss th
The concept that sold open data was: “open all the data, people will do wonderful things, and the world will be a better place”. Has open data been sold as something more simple than it actually is?Hello everyone. If you haven’t been following our blog, we recently organised a conference called Open
Nigeria’s tech scene has been thriving in recent years. From 2012 to 2016, the ICT sector has grown from 6% to 11% of GDP, and was the single fastest growing sector of the economy. The country is Africa’s most populous, and this year it has also overtaken South Africa to become the continent’s large
Welcome to the third and final part of our interview with Nueva Nación. In the last two sections, amongst other things, we spoke about the challenges of data journalism in a country like Panama, the frustrations of poorly-formatted data, and the threats that those pushing for transparency face. In t
Welcome back to the second part of our interview with Ana and Alfonso of Nueva Nación. In the first part we spoke about the workings of Nueva Nación, the state of freedom of information and expression in Panama, and the dangers of whistleblowing and journalism. This second part of the interview expl
Data journalism faces a plethora of challenges in Panama. No Panamanian media outlet has a serious data journalism team, and storytelling often misses out on data and the context it could provide. There are enormous difficulties in accessing information about the simplest of things, and even when it
Welcome back to the second part of our interview with Chia-Liang Kao of g0v.tw. In the last edition of Open & Shut we spoke about the influence of the Open Knowledge Foundation rankings upon Taiwanese open data policies, and the general state of the open data landscape in Taiwan. This second part of
Taiwan has been ranked #1 in the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Global Open Data Index for the last two years. Taiwan’s ascendance has been astonishing, rising from #36 in 2013, to #11 in 2014, and claiming the top position in 2015 and 2016. it has managed to surprise data observers across the world. S
Hi there! This week we’re turning to the Himalayan nation of Nepal — perhaps not the first place that comes to mind when thinking about open data pioneers — but we believe Nepal is an interesting case study in lots of ways. We’ll be looking at some of the ways that this state with young democratic i
Today we’d like to showcase some exciting new Iranian transparency initiatives that we highlighted in the latest edition of our monthly Filterwatch series monitoring internet freedom and related policy developments in Iran.In July’s edition of Filterwatch we profiled a number of citizen-led open dat
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