Tech groups from nonprofits, companies, federal agencies and universities from across the country unveiled various digital tools based on federal data. Census Citizen Services Commerce Tech groups ...

Kenya is at the forefront of the open data movement in Africa thanks to initiatives such as crowdsourcing software Ushahidi and government tracker Uchaguzi. At the recent The Next Web Conference ...

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is the practice of collecting information from published or otherwise publicly available sources. OSINT operations, whether practiced by IT security pros, malicious ...

The World Bank’s Open Data Initiative allows free and open sharing of data and information. Demand for open data is growing around the world, including in Poland. The new Open Access policy formalizes ...

The Obama administration unveiled 29 new digital tools Thursday developed with federal open data under its Opportunity Project launched in March. The tools, some of which were developed by big names ...

Cities have the dual responsibilities of keeping citizens informed while providing them with tools to act on that information. More U.S. municipalities are fulfilling those obligations with open-data ...

In a recent Businessweek article, an IBM exec pointed out that “Today, the amount of information we produce increases by about 800 megabytes per year for every man, woman, and child on the planet.” ...

Fresh off launching the platform for the White House’s community open data project, the Census Bureau has released another tool to let people craft their own measure of income inequality. MIDAAS — ...