At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Data Charter (Author: Emma Sheppard) is one of the resources we have made...

At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Data Charter (by Stefaan Verhulst, Andrew Young, Andrew Zahuranec, Susan...

At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Data Charter (Author: Darine Benkalha) is one of the resources we have made...

At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Data Carter (Author: Natalia Norori) is one of the resources we have made...

At Iran Open Data, we have been working to make resources about open data and access to information available to open data advocates in Iran. The following blog post from Open Contracting Partnership (By ANTONIO HERRERA AND ELIO VAZQUEZ, INAI ) is one...

The COVID-19 pandemic has opened up plenty of opportunities for graft. We spoke with Global Integrity to learn how their anti-corruption coalition is adapting to this new environment. The old adage ‘every crisis is an opportunity’ has been thrown...

An adaptable mutual aid platform from Indonesia has helped countless communities to organise. What lessons does it have for other data-sharing projects? Gotong Royong. Wikipedia defines it as a concept of sociality familiar to large parts...

Maintaining open data portals is taxing and requires consistency. Leveraging a community of data enthusiasts may be your way of keeping up with data demand. In my last blog post, I had a look at the Kenya open data portal, a well-intentioned...

Data literacy is a crucial skill to help people to navigate a world ruled by data, and riddled with misinformation. There’s no time to waste in sharing these skills far and wide. As an open data practitioner I find that I’m frequently asking myself...

Government open data portals are important, but they’re little more than facades for transparency unless they’re updated, maintained, and user-centred. 2011 was a big year for the Kenya open data community. The government, with help from the World...

Hello again! As you may have noticed, Open & Shut has been on a bit of a hiatus for the last year or so. This blog was first created in 2017 as a space for open data advocates and practitioners to grapple with some challenging questions around the...

Since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia a decade ago, the young state’s developing institutions have been forced to grapple with a host of tough challenges. Youth unemployment currently stands at 57.7% according to UNDP, and mass emigration is...

The State of Transparency in the United States In May 2013, President Barack Obama announced to the world that his administration had issued an ambitious new Open Data Policy. This new policy was unveiled within a broader executive order that mandated...

Hello and welcome back to Open and Shut! Today we’re joined by Nathalie Sidibe, a young leader from Mali who has been a pioneer of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) platform in West Africa. She will share with us her thoughts and experiences on leading mapping...

Welcome back to Open & Shut! For this post, we got in touch with Ngeunga Madeleine, a journalist based in Cameroon. Using Madeleine’s experiences, we’ll delve into the state of open data in her home country, and track her journey from traditional...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...