What open data is available from governments around the world, in what formats are the data available, and how can you easily find or use it? Overall this year’s index found that the data available ...

An investor probing the world for information on places to park money would probably inquire first with Western governments with a long-standing reputation for open records. But this year shoppers for ...

Elena Simperl receives funding from the EU FP7 ICT Open Data Monitor project (Reference: 611988). But both reports criticise governments, including Britain’s, for the slow progress made in unravelling ...

The World Bank Group has launched TCdata360, a public data source aimed at providing policymakers, development practitioners, academics, investors, and others with free and open access to data on ...

The federal government produces one hell of a lot of data, but despite desultory lurches toward usability, there’s little guarantee that it’s available in a way that makes it useful to anyone. That ...

“How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?” lamented French President Charles de Gaulle. India, with 22 official languages (and over 1,000 mother tongues), ...

You don't have to sell Michael Chui on the importance of big data. He knows the amount of data worldwide is exploding, that use of big data is becoming a key basis of competition and growth -- and ...