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From pipe to platform: The US CIO on the future of open data
Steven VanRoekel is the government’s top IT guy, but in a way he’s also its chief content officer. VanRoekel was named chief information officer for the U.S. last fall, a job that oversees the everyday...
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Liveblog: Alexander Howard on lessons for government from open source and...
Alexander Howard, O’Reilly Media’s Gov 2.0 correspondent, came to Cambridge Tuesday to give a talk at Harvard’s Berkman Center about how the technologies that shaped the Internet have transformed how...
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How La Nación is using data to challenge a FOIA-free culture
One year ago, La Nación (Argentina’s second largest newspaper) revealed that the government had spent more than $34 billion — in eight years — to subsidize the operation of private buses in Argentina,...
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Hiding in public: How the National Archives wants to open up its data to...
The National Archives is sitting on massive amounts of information — from specs for NASA projects to geological surveys to letters from presidents. But there’s a problem: “These records are held...
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How does a country get to open data? What Taiwan can teach us about the...
TAIPEI — I recently had the pleasure of teaching a two-day data journalism workshop at the Commonwealth Magazine Group in Taiwan’s capital city. The signature moment came when I showed these...
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OpenData Latinoamérica: Driving the demand side of data and scraping towards...
En español aquí. “There’s a saying here, and I’ll translate, because it’s very much how we work,” Miguel Paz said to me over a Skype call from Chile. “But that doesn’t mean that it’s illegal. Here,...
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OpenData Latinoamérica: Ampliando la demanda de datos y recolectando...
Editor’s note: You may have seen our story yesterday on OpenData Latinoamérica, a new data-sharing platform launched recently by a group of Latin American journalists. So that it might be read more by...
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The alpha of CivOmega: A hack-day tool to parse civic data and tell you more...
Want to know how many times Beyoncé has visited the White House? How many bills has Rep. Darrell Issa sponsored? How many Dominicans live in New York City? The idea of “a Siri or Wolfram Alpha for...
View ArticleRelive MozFest through notes on data and journalism
Hey #mozfest: Massive number of *amazing* journalism and data sessions start at 2pm. pic.twitter.com/eZIXnUwTTL — OpenNews (@opennews) October 26, 2013 The annual gathering of web makers and thinkers...
View ArticleQ&A: Ellen Miller on the Sunlight Foundation’s role in increasing the...
For the past eight years, Ellen Miller has been one of the nation’s most prominent activists for open government and open data. She’s executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, which she started in...
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What is Data.gov doing wrong? And how could it get better?
When Jacob Harris left The New York Times last month to work for the federal government at 18F — a sort of in-house digital consultancy to up the digital smarts of government — one could imagine the...
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How the Argentinian daily La Nación became a data journalism powerhouse in...
In 2010, political reporter Diego Cabot of Argentina’s La Nación received a leak with massive potential: a CD with 26,000 emails from the minister of transportation under then-President Cristina...
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This Spanish data-driven news site thinks its work goes past publishing...
If you spend dozens of hours learning about a subject — say, government procurements — for an article, you might want to find some way to use that knowledge beyond just hitting Publish on a story. As a...
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