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Open Data: The Opportunity Project’s Goal to Improve Urban Communitites
Last month the Obama administration announced what they called The Opportunity Project, a plan to grow the collaboration between the public and private sectors. The website for the project self-describes itself as being “about all of us working together to increase opportunity…
Open Data: Poor Quality Threaten Usefulness of Data Sets
Open Data, data published by governments, organizations and businesses for use in the public domain, have touted economic and social benefits. A big problem though with Open Data is that it’s difficult to know the quality of the data that’s…
Open Data: Making Better Use of Existing Resources
“Open data offers a new start for economic reform and productivity growth. Leveraging the new possibilities of the Internet to make better use of existing resources, it offers us a way of getting past the political economy of winners and…
Open Data: US Government Reports Progress, but Much More is Needed
McKinsey and Company estimates that the value of Open Data when considered globally could top $3 trillion. In order to check the progress of Open Data within the US, the US Federal Government created an Open Government Dashboard. This was done following…
Open Data and Health Care: Medicaid and Drug Interaction Databases Released
While the US Federal government may not be moving as quickly as many would like to see in releasing Open Data sets, the FDA earlier this month released a four million record data set of information about drug and medication…