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TED Talks Jer Thorp creates beautiful data visualizations to put abstract data into a human context. 
Fingal County Council Open Data Datasets...Discover Fingal is Overall Winner at Apps4Fingal Competition. A tourism app, Discover Fingal, that helps visitors navigate local attractions picking up loyalty points along the way, has been voted the overall winner in Fingal County Council’s Apps4Fingal competition at a ceremony in Swords this evening hosted by Mayor of Fingal, Cllr. Gerry McGuire. 
RT @euscreen: On the blog: this animation from @EuropeanaEU answers your every question about Linked Open Data http://t.co/lelJ0UH9 #heritage #tech #lod... 
The W3C has announced a new workshop, Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism. 
Your government has a lot of useful public data, but it is not always in the most useful format. How can we, as a community, take that information and turn it into something productive? 
Steven VanRoekel: "We have to get out of the data business and into the platform business."... 
Foursquare just made what it called "a little announcement", but it's really not little at all. It's switching away from the Google Maps API to OpenStreetMap. 
John Jarve and Kevin Brown There’s a radical transformation happening in information technology today, one that promises to be every bit as significant—and every bit as disruptive to existing business models—as were Web applications in the 1990s... Via Pekka Puhakka 
The Open Knowledge Foundation are proud to announce the launch of version 1.0 of the Open Data Handbook (formerly the Open Data Manual):
Exploring Open Charity Data with Nominet Trust : Tim's Blog
The European Data Forum (EDF) 2012 will take place on June 6-7, 2012 in Copenhagen (Denmark) at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS).
The European Data Forum (EDF) 2012 will take place on June 6-7, 2012 in Copenhagen (Denmark) at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS).
A full-day hands-on workshop combining open data and easy-to-use data visualisation tools to enable pedagogical development and course redesign. 
RT @siwhitehouse: Excellent post from @citizensheep on encouraging #opendata reuse by #localgov http://t.co/5S2Efa6y... |
Where is Ireland? Country Commitments | Open Government Partnership |
Back in October I wrote about a UK government consultation on the subject of the proposed Public Data Corporation. The government has now responded with one of its well-written documents [pdf]. Here's part of the executive summary: Charging • Many... This presentation is about Open Data and Linked Open Data. It has been shown to researchers working in the eHumanities group. 
Welcome news for those involved in open data campaigning this morning – the government is looking into new ways of releasing information and has appointed wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales to help. The Commentator - Time to open data and nip caveats and excuses in the bud, writes Michael Cross... 
The progress made by the open data movement is pretty extraordinary. A few years ago, data was something that only statisticians cared about, but today it is one of the most vibrant areas of exploration and innovation. Open Data and Public Administrations: new applications and serviceseGov monitorThis means that open data can be used as a starting point to create new applications and services by public administrations, companies and citizens, or to provide a... 
From open data to a closed Internet By Esther Dyson/New York Within the tech community, there is much angst about whether the web is about to be “closed”. Will it be controlled by companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google, or will it Open data can change the way services are provided and government delivered. Now is an important time to ensure consumers are at the heart of this.
A free workshop exploring opportunities in open data for the voluntary sector Tuesday 20 March 2012, 10:00 – 16:30. Central London. 
The project, three years in the making and still in beta, is just starting to be rolled out by government and planning agencies. 
I spent the second afternoon of UK Gov Camp in the session on open data platform (Good post by @siwhitehouse on constructing an open data platform: http://t.co/lo0vDczM...)... Pentaho Kettle Webinar: Learn about Pentaho's Open Sourcing of High Productivity Visual Big Data Tools (Pentaho Kettle Webinar: Learn about Pentaho's Open Sourcing of High Productivity Visual Big Data Tools - |
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