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Data Refuge on support of Climate and Environmental research & advocacy
06/12/2017
Data Refuge (powered by CKAN) helps to build refuge for federal data and supports climate and environmental research and advocacy. Data Refuge is committed to fact-based arguments, and preserves the facts we need at a time of ongoing climate change. Data Refuge was launched November 2016 in Philadelphia to draw attention ...
Code for Africa : towards people-driven Open Data & Open Government
05/12/2017
Open Data & Open Government promise to change the power dynamics that govern our societies, giving ordinary citizens more and deeper information in real time, along with digital tools for engaging with fellow citizens and with those in positions of power.So, why are so few citizens using either the data ...
Technical Recommendations of the COAR Next Generation Repositories Working Group
04/12/2017
On 28 November, 2017, the COAR published the report "Behaviours and Technical Recommendations of the COAR Next Generation Repositories".The report presents the results of the work of this group, including recommendations for the adoption of new technologies, standards, and protocols that will help repositories become more integrated into the web environment ...
OPEN DATA : Looking Back, Looking Ahead
01/12/2017
For over a decade, OD has been a focus for policymakers, and is considered to be a tremendous resource for Open Government, although is as yet largely untapped (see: Mapping open data governance models: Who makes decisions about government data and how?) ... Only by fostering and applying the evidence about ...