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The international network, Open Data Charter, launched on its website a Digital Resource Center, a set of interactive tools that enable governments around the world to implement the principles of the International Charter. Still under construction,...

Dedicated to exploit the natural resources, the extractive industry has become a relevant sector in many international economies. According to the World Bank’s handbook, The Extractive Industries Sector: Essentials for Economists, Public Finance...

Beginning in February 2013, the World Wide Web Foundation, with support from IDRC (Canadian International Development Research Centre) leads a research driven project entitled "Exploring the emerging impacts of Open Data in the developing country" (ODDC...

One of the main difficulties that typically arises in addressing a project related to the re-use of public sector information is the impossibility or, at least, the difficulties with the availability of data linked to identifiable or identified natural...

Open data can be a really powerful tool to overcome the challenges that currently exist in the areas of agriculture and nutrition. GODAN has organized an Open Data Challenge, an international initiative that seeks innovative ways to unleash the potential...

Free and open access to data through the Web provides us the transformative potential to enable citizens to be fully involved in the democratic process, making governments and other development agents more efficient and foster the creation of new...

The global open data community continues to mature since the last International Open Data Conference was held in 2015 in the Canadian city of Ottawa. One year later, it’s time to continue to strengthen coordination between the different open data...

The organizing committee of the International Open Data Conference has published the programme (draft) of the event that will take place during the 6th to 7th October in Madrid. Last March the call for proposals was opened to create the agenda...

In the last decade the number of available data related to health and healthcare in Europe has grown exponentially; increased by the massive penetration of mobile devices and applications belonging to the field of health and wellness, supplemented in...

The progressive rise in food prices has raised serious concerns about food and nutrition security across the world, concept referring to the supply of food, and individuals' access to it. Though a coordinated response is urgently needed at international...