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A Blast from the Open Data Past // 4:30 PM ET Nextgov (blog) VanRoekel's and Park's discourses on the economic value of open data can sometimes seem pie-in-the-sky -- a whole universe of eager entrepreneurs turning profits and aiding consumers in...

Don't we just love the fact that these days so much bioactivity data is freely available at no cost (to the end user)? I think we do. The more, the better. So, what would your answer be if someone asked you if you consider it to be ...

Build software better, together. (The White House drafted and released the official Open Data Policy of the United States http://t.co/B2j2I2ReI9)

I'm down with the Health Data Initiative, and look forward to seeing some interesting uses of de-identified government data streams at the Health Datapalooza next month in DC, but the feds need to remember that while there is great value to pumping...

The Global Roads Open Access Data Set, Version 1 (gROADSv1) was developed under the auspices of the CODATA Global Roads Data Development Task Group. The data set combines the best available roads data by country into a global roads coverage, using the UN Spatial Data Infrastructure Transport (UNSDI-T) version 2 as a common data model. All country road networks have been joined topologically at the borders, and many countries have been edited for internal topology. Source data for each country are provided in the documentation, and users are encouraged to refer to the readme file for use constraints that apply to a small number of countries. Because the data are compiled from multiple sources, the date range for road network representations ranges from the 1980s to 2010 depending on the country (most countries have no confirmed date), and spatial accuracy varies. The baseline global data set was compiled by the Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) of the University of Georgia. Updated data for 27 countries and 6 smaller geographic entities were assembled by Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), with a focus largely on developing countries with the poorest data coverage.

Via Irina Radchenko

The Caribbean Open Data Conference and Code Sprint is the largest annual technology conference in the sub-region. From 11 to 12 April 2013 this event was organized simultaneously across 7 national sites in Cuba, ...

US legislation released on Thursday is aimed at making federal government data easier to find and use. We take a look at whether UK law is moving at the same rate.