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Open Data Charter Principles – The Measurement Guide is out now!

June 1, 2018 by Open Data Labs Leave a Comment

This post originally appeared on the Web Foundation website. This post was written by Ana Brandusescu (Web Foundation) and Danny Lämmerhirt (Open Knowledge International), co-chairs of the Measurement and Accountability Working Group of the Open Data Charter. Measurability of the Open Data Charter principles We are pleased to announce the launch of our Open Data Charter Measurement Guide. The guide is […]

From extraction to empowerment: a better future for data for development

May 15, 2018 by Open Data Labs Leave a Comment

This post was written by Andreas Pawelke (@pa_wela), Director of the Open Data Lab Jakarta, and Michael Cañares (@mikorulez), Web Foundation Senior Research Manager. Photo © Irendra Radjawali. During Open Government Week we’ve been thinking about what needs to be done to put citizens at the center of data initiatives in a way that gives them meaningful influence in […]

Data for Development: What’s next? [New Research]

March 15, 2018 by Open Data Labs Leave a Comment

Digital data offers a great many opportunities for development by enabling actors to strengthen decision-making processes, improve service delivery, elicit meaningful citizen participation, and increase responsiveness in humanitarian services. At the same time, it can generate new forms of exclusion, new methods of surveillance and threatens individual privacy. In a new report, Data for Development: What’s […]

The web is under threat. Join us and fight for it.

March 12, 2018 by Open Data Labs Leave a Comment

Today, March 12, is the World Wide Web’s 29th birthday. Here’s a message from our founder and web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on what we need to ensure that everyone has access to a web worth having. Today, the World Wide Web turns 29. This year marks a milestone in the web’s history: for the […]

Gender must be central to the data protection conversation, not a side note

February 12, 2018 by Open Data Labs Leave a Comment

This post was written by Ana Brandusescu, Web Foundation Research & Policy Officer and originally appears on the Web Foundation news. Follow her on Twitter at @anabmap. Photo © Daniel Friedman, CC BY-NC 2.0. Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference in Brussels. Discussions at the conference covered a wide range of important digital […]

How open data can save AI

January 15, 2018 by Open Data Labs Leave a Comment

This post originally appears on the Web Foundation website and was written by Web Foundation Policy Fellow Juan Ortiz Freuler & Policy Director Craig Fagan. Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping our world — changing our economies (think Uber and driverless cars), our politics (think Cambridge Analytica and targeted political adverts), and our societies (think predictive policing). While AI […]

100 days in: five thoughts from the top of the mountain

December 15, 2017 by Open Data Labs Leave a Comment

This piece is written by Adrian Lovett, President & CEO of Web Foundation. This was originally published on the Web Foundation website. I’m writing this on day 100 in my role at the Web Foundation. No day has been like another — including today, as I write from the remote village of Girisuko in Indonesia […]

The story of how the web began and why we must fight for its future

December 11, 2017 by Open Data Labs Leave a Comment

This post is originally published by the Web Foundation. “If we’re going to spend all this time on the internet — we should spend a proportion of that time defending it.” When Sir Tim Berners-Lee published his proposal for the World Wide Web, he envisioned an open, universal space, where anyone could bring their ideas to life without having […]

“ForEveryone”: A Movie Screening & Discussion on the History and Future of the World Wide Web

December 5, 2017 by Open Data Labs Leave a Comment

On December 13, we are hosting a film screening and discussion on the past, present and future of the World Wide Web. The event, free and open to the public, will take place at Ruang Serbaguna of the Ministry of Communications & Informatics in Jakarta and is hosted in collaboration with the Ministry of Communications […]