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by Maira Sutton, Cat Johnson and Neal Gorenflo The sharing economy held great promise when it first emerged. It was seen as a way to help people build community, reduce unnecessary consumption, and generate extra income. It was based on the brilliantly simple notion that when we share, everybody has more. 
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The Open Data Institute (ODI) equip, connect and inspire people around the world to innovate with data. Co-founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt, the ODI provides events, training, membership and consultancy around open data.
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"Trade secrecy - the intellectual property doctrine that allows businesses to keep commercially valuable information secret for a potentially unlimited amount of time - is increasingly intruding in the operation of our public infrastructure, like voting machines, the Internet and telecommunications. A growing amount of public infrastructure is being provided by private entities that are holding critical information about their goods and services secret from the public. This Article examines this phenomenon, which is largely unexplored in legal scholarship, and identifies a significant conflict between the values and policies of trade secrecy doctrine and the democratic values of accountability and transparency that have traditionally been present in public infrastructure projects.
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Data sharing has the potential to facilitate wider collaboration and foster scientific progress.
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An Ad Hoc Introduction to Argentine Affairs This post was written by Andres Snitcofsky an open government / data activist in Argentina.
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This post was written by Owen Boswarva For a third year running the United Kingdom has come out at or near the top of the Global Open Data Index.
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Nigeria has been ranked as one of the worst performing countries in terms of data transparency according to the Global Open Data Index 2015 tracking the state of open data worldwide releases by the Open Knowledge International.
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Open data/open science is currently a hot topic. Astronomy has been at the forefront for the sharing of data. Françoise Genova explains how astronomical data ...
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Last week, the White House strengthened its support for Open Educational Resources (OER) and committed to expanding access to them through open licenses and technology.
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In 2012, the city of Seoul launched Sharing City Seoul to create a local, government-sanctioned sharing culture – establishing the city of 10 million as a frontrunner in the sharing cities movement. City officials committed to cultivating a vibrant local sharing economy, and Seoul was quickly praised as a global sharing leader. But results on the ground have been mixed, and the initiative remains a work in progress. Sharing City Seoul hasn't taken off as hoped, and awareness of the sharing econo
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Make Web Not War (http://www.webnotwar.ca) is proud to present Open, the World's first short film on Open Government, Open Data, and Open Source. Open is the...
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Martin Tisne of the Omidyar Network in his blog The Missing Link: How to Engage the Private Sector in Open Government Partnership, discusses the nascent Open Government Partnership (OGP) Private Sector Council, which was set up to provide...
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ELGL is seeking contributions from you…yeah, YOU! We want to hear about your experiences, ideas, and unique perspectives. We get your content, you get published on a prestigious, Nobel Prize for Li…
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This short webinar examines three key aspects of building a business model for any open data start up. Over 40 minutes we discuss creating a compelling value...
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Blockchain was only invented in 2008, starting off as technology to underpin the cryptocurrency bitcoin, but it's rapidly becoming famous, writes Peter Wells, associate at the Open Data Institute.
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#opendata goes local - See the local open data index findings for #Nepal -
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Many scientists are still resisting calls to openly share underlying data. Whilst their concerns should be taken seriously, Dorothy Bishop doesn’t think the objections withstand scrutiny.
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OpenCon 2014 was an epic milestone for the global research community. OpenCon 2015 was different. OpenCon 2015 was a storm. Never have I seen such energy, such drive, such raw creativity unleashed than on the few days we had in Brussels. Designed to bring together students and early career researchers from all facets of research and from all corners of the globe, OpenCon 2015 is about empowering the research community to advance open data, open access, and open education.
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The Wellcome Trust has teamed up with the US National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to launch a new prize that will seek to unleash the power of open content and data...
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Open data – the policy of releasing data in bulk, machine-readable formats and permitting its use and re-use without restriction – was sold to governments in the mid-noughties on a double-sided prospectus.
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I’ve been spending some time in NYC recently and thought it worthwhile to check in with some civic technology friends and ex-colleagues…
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