Yesterday I presented at TEDxZwolle. For a general audience I presented the case for Open Data, and called upon them to get involved. Because of the potential, but mostly because it is necessary to understand and deal with the complexity … Continue reading
Last week I co-hosted a session between a number of public sector data holders and a handful of the biggest existing players in the market re-using that same type of data. I’m deliberately vague about who those market parties were, … Continue reading
I have been visiting the World Bank the past days to discuss various open data projects, e.g. in Kenya, Moldova and Tunisia. During one of the meetings, an informal one during lunch, we discussed the challenges we see for open … Continue reading
At the Open Government Data Camp in Warsaw on 20 and 21 October I hosted a workshop on ‘making open government data work for local government’. If open government data is here to stay then only because it has become … Continue reading
In the Open Data arena people often ask if ‘the people’ are actually ‘ready’ to deal with the availability of data. Do we have the statistical skills, the coding skills, to make data useful? In my presentations over the past … Continue reading
