The Web Foundation’s Open Data Lab in Jakarta, in collaboration with the World Bank, is working on a project that will demonstrate different ways in increasing citizen engagement with open contracting data. This is part of the World Bank programme implemented in the city of Bandung in Indonesia, that starts off with the disclosure of […]
Archives for October 2018
Open Washing: digging deeper into the tough questions
This blog was written by James McKinney, Oscar Montiel and Ana Brandusescu and is based on a session on #openwashing at this year’s International Open Data Conference For the second time in history, the International Open Data Conference (IODC) opened a space for us to talk about #openwashing. The insights from IODC16 have been brilliantly summarised by Ana Brandusescu, also a host […]
A decade into open data, leading governments struggle to make it a reality
The Open Data Barometer — Leaders Edition, published today, finds that 10 years into the movement to make government data open, leading governments have opened fewer than 1 in 5 datasets. Today, we launched the Open Data Barometer — Leaders Edition, measuring how leading governments are performing, a decade into the movement to make government data available to the […]