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How can “Open Data” improve City Life?
We all know that for many years Governments and Public Institutions have collected critical information about City Life. We also know this information hasn’t being truly accessible to their employees...
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Flush the toilet but collect the data!
Every time we use the toilet we are flushing data that could save our life. How differently would we approach health if toilets were able to analyze and transmit the data safely to a private dashboard...
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Open cities: Palo Alto setting an example empowered by Junar
Some of you may recall our post earlier in the spring mentioning the launch of a new open data platform, Junar. It seems they have been quite busy in fueling the data revolution as they just announced...
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The data behind the Olympics medals table
The Guardian has a set of tables and graphics that allows users to create their own medals tables on the basis of other factors such as population, GDP, and team size. Unlike the usual infographics the...
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Why will the Amsterdam City Council start publishing expenditures?
The European Public Sector Information Platform (EPSI Platform) announced Amsterdam City Council will start publishing its expenditures. This is expected to increase trust from the community but also...
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“Big data combined with an open source approach will lead to significant...
Martin Varsavsky is one of Europe’s leading technology entrepreneurs. He recently spoke to Fortune about startup trends in the UK and Europe. Do you see more startup activity in big data? “The world’s...
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Delivering better healthcare through Open Data
In 2006, 3 ex-MIT engineers created PatientsLikeMe an online platform in which patients can openly share their health information with other patients. The site enables the conversion of narrative (the...
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Open Knowledge Festival
The Open Knowledge Festival has been taking place in all this week (last day is tomorrow). The festival is a full week of participatory sessions, keynote lectures, workshops, hackathons and satellite...
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Facilitating ‘Citizens as Designers’
In the beginning of September the Dutch held elections for the national parliament. Not being a citizen I couldn’t vote; however I couldn’t help myself but to follow the election process finding every...
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Open for Change Network
Last Friday I had the opportunity to attend an Open Tea organised by Open for Change a network promoting innovation and standardisation of ‘web 2.0′ practices in the Dutch development sector. The...
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