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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

On August 7, the Indian government blocked access to the Internet Archive — the web’s largest nonprofit library, consisting of millions of free books, movies, music, software and websites. And nobody knew why — until yesterday. The producers of two...

Hello there! Welcome to Open & Shut — a new blog dedicated to exploring the opportunities and challenges of working with open data in closed societies around the world. Although we’ll be exploring questions relevant to open data practitioners...