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In Jakarta, Open Environmental Data Meets Freedom of Information Law

In Jakarta, Open Environmental Data Meets Freedom of Information Law

techpresident.com –

FOI provides citizens with rights to access. Open data, for the most part, has simply afforded a privilege. Our colleagues in Jakarta have rightly pointed out their discomfort with this and are giving the open data community - which, as a broad tent, has always included those interested in not just transparency, but non-profit, commercial uses, scientific uses - a push to demand more. There is a central the difference between a FOI and open data. FOI is a “document centric” process. It more...

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The Shakespeare review: what's the future of UK open data?

The Shakespeare review: what's the future of UK open data?

guardian.co.uk –

The UK is the world leader on open government data, according to YouGov CEO and Open Data Strategy Board chair Stephan Shakespeare, but needs to avoid being the "boffins ... we generate the excitement but don't mint the money". The finding is one of the core messages of The Shakespeare Review, a government-commissioned report on what should happen next with opening up government data for the benefit of government, business and (of course) citizens. Open data has the potential to deliver a £2bn more...

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Open Government Data: Helping Parents to find the Best School for their Kids

Open Government Data: Helping Parents to find the Best School for their Kids

blogs.worldbank.org –

Open Government Data is an effective solution which can ease the problem of a lack of accessible information about existing schools in a particular country or location. By adopting the Open Government Data policy in the educational field, governments release data about grades, funding, student and teacher numbers, data generated throughout time by schools, colleges, universities and other educational settings. The School Portal, developed under the Moldova Open Data Initiative, uses data made more...

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The Uncertain Relationship Between Open Data and Accountability: A Response to Yu and Robinson’s The New Ambiguity of “Open Government”

The Uncertain Relationship Between Open Data and Accountability: A Response to Yu and Robinson’s The New Ambiguity of “Open Government”

uclalawreview.org –

David Robinson and Harlan Yu are among the foremost scholars in the field of open government data research. With their 2009 article, Government Data and the Invisible Hand,1 Robinson, Yu, and their colleagues were among the first in the academic community to offer a well-articulated rationale for the release of governmental data in open formats. In 2012, Robinson and Yu returned with a new contribution to the field - The New Ambiguity of “Open Government” - providing an analytical more...

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Making the DC Code Open

Making the DC Code Open

dc-code-open.eventbrite.com –

Join us at the OpenGov Hub for a special Brown-Bag Lunch (BBL) session with General Council V. David Zvenyach on how Washington DC's Legal Code became available to all earlier this month, and what this means for government data overall. And remember: it's a BBL so be sure to bring your own lunch! Refreshments will be provided by the OpenGov Hub. About the OpenGov Hub: The OpenGov Hub is the day-to-day home to a range of people and organizations working on the open government agenda while also more...

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The Power of Social Networks to Drive Mobile Money Adoption

The Power of Social Networks to Drive Mobile Money Adoption

This study identifies and explores the key drivers of mobile money (MM) adoption by comparing data from three African countries. It uses innovative analytics and data mining techniques. It processes findings from a data set of 7 billion transactions performed by more than 10 million mobile phone users over 7 months. The study reveals two key variables that indicate a higher propensity to adopt MM. The first variable is the social network and social interactions of the mobile user. Individuals more...

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D C on May 17, 2013

Transparency Camp & Chinese aid

Transparency Camp & Chinese aid

publishwhatyoufund.org –

Last week l was in Washington D.C. to attend the Sunlight Foundation’s excellent Transparency Camp and present our plans for the 2013 Index. My week kicked off with an event at CGD to launch a new dataset of Chinese aid projects (not that the Chinese call it aid) which has set off a flurry of blogs about the pros and cons of using media sources to collect aid data. Of course my response to all this is predictable - if all providers of development flows published their information in an open, more...

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Deutsche Bank and IFC accused of bankrolling Vietnam firms' land grabs

Deutsche Bank and IFC accused of bankrolling Vietnam firms' land grabs

guardian.co.uk –

Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation – the World Bank's private lending arm – are leading a wave of land grabs in Cambodia and Laos, causing widespread evictions, illegal logging and food insecurity, according to a report. The study, concluding a year-long investigation by the watchdog Global Witness, names two of Vietnam's biggest companies, the privately owned Huang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and state-owned Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG), as the more...

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US Navy ship to sail the Pacific on a humanitarian mission

US Navy ship to sail the Pacific on a humanitarian mission

csmonitor.com –

The US Pacific Fleet said May 9 that it will send an amphibious dock landing ship to six Pacific island nations over the next several months to provide humanitarian assistance and help people better prepare for disasters. The USS Pearl Harbor will leave Hawaii on May 24. It will stop first in Samoa and then visit Tonga, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Kiribati, and the Solomon Islands. The US Navy has been sending vessels on similar humanitarian missions since 2006, when it sent the more...

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D C on May 17, 2013

All Our Ideas: Breakthrough in Citizen Feedback Solutions

All Our Ideas: Breakthrough in Citizen Feedback Solutions

wbi.worldbank.org –

A new version of All Our Ideas - a freely available citizen feedback tool that enables data collection by combining the best features of quantitative and qualitative methods – has just been launched. With a new responsive design, built with the support of the World Bank Institute as part of the World Bank’s Open Development Technology Alliance (ODTA), All Our Ideas enables data collection through a number of devices: desktop, laptops, tablets and mobile. Easily deployable, the tool has already more...

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D C on May 17, 2013

Saudi Arabia blocks climate change from UN poverty goals

Saudi Arabia blocks climate change from UN poverty goals

Saudi Arabia is leading calls for climate change to be omitted from the UN’s 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At an SDG meeting in New York recently attended by over 70 nations the Saudis, together with fellow oil producers Venezuela and the UAE called for discussions of climate change to be separated from those on energy. Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and other big oil exporters have already gained reputations as serial blockers at the these talks, which are at a delicate stage. more...

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D C on May 17, 2013

RCTs Awesome, but Then What?

RCTs Awesome, but Then What?

blog.aiddata.org –

Randomized evaluations became the chic international development approach a few years back, as they re-energized the aid effectiveness debate with the promise to unbury the causal links of program interventions and development. According to Brigham, Findley, Matthias, Petrey and Nielson, “By assigning interventions to treatment and control groups, researchers can learn the causal effects of the projects and, by replication, accumulate knowledge of effective development practice in which we can more...

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D C on May 17, 2013

Open Government: A Time for Self-Assessment

whitehouse.gov –

Since the first day of the Obama Administration, the Federal government has worked to make government more efficient, effective, and responsive to citizens’ needs. The Administration has harnessed new technology to engage the public, worked to disclose information more quickly, and given citizens a greater voice in decision-making. In September 2011, the Administration’s work was launched on the world stage when President Obama and other world leaders endorsed the principles of the global Open more...

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How Vietnamese Companies and International Financiers are driving a Land Grabbing Crisis in Cambodia and Laos

How Vietnamese Companies and International Financiers are driving a Land Grabbing Crisis in Cambodia and Laos

globalwitness.org –

This report shows how vast amounts of land have been acquired for rubber plantations in Cambodia and Laos by two of Vietnam’s biggest largest companies, Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) and the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG). The rubber barons are financed by international investors including Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) – the private lending arm of the World Bank. It lays bare the culture of secrecy and impunity that has allowed these two rubber giants to gain rights to more...

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Recap: A Big Day for Open Data

Recap: A Big Day for Open Data

whitehouse.gov –

Indeed, in a major step to provide innovative companies like Stormpulse with increased access to government data, the President signed a groundbreaking Executive Order and published a new open data policy requiring that going forward, data generated by the government be made available in open, machine-readable formats, while appropriately safeguarding privacy, confidentiality, and security. President Obama said: “And today I’m announcing that we’re making even more government data available, more...

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