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Data extracted from table on page 4 from the consumer price index report in Aban 1398

Data extracted from table on page 4 from the consumer price index report in Mehr 1398

Data extracted from daily infographic getting published by IRNA News Agency and the Health Ministry of Iran website.

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 “aren’t we fighting a losing battle against misinfor

Data extracted from daily infographic getting published by IRNA News Agency from Health Ministry of Iran.

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 Bank, launched a national open data portal dubbed the

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 role of the open data movement in poli

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 feeding an ongoing crisis. Yet in the face o

The State of Transparency in the United StatesIn 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 reforms to ensure increased levels of data t

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 initiatives in her community.OpenStreet

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 journalism, through to the wonderful world of dat

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