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Speaker Release – Open Use

Provides the most flexibility in how a recorded presentation can be used.

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Open Data…Another Source of Big Data (How will we use it?)

– “Open and machine-readable”, the president said, is “the new default for government information.”- From: A New Goldmine, The Economist, May 2013 This article notes the opening up of government data as yet another big bucket of bytes contributing to the “big bang of big data,” one that will…

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News: White House Issues Executive Order, Announces “Landmark Steps To Liberate Open Data”

[Hat tip to: Aspen Institute Program On Philanthropy And Social Innovation (PSI) and PSI’s Nonprofit Data Project] Today, President Obama issued an Executive Order — Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information Our take at Markets For Good? It was big news when the President’s FY 2014...

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Internet Sleuthing 2.0: Standards for Digital Open Source Investigations

Author and human rights advocate Alexa Koenig explains how the Berkeley Protocol will empower the next generation of human rights defenders.

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Public Laboratory for Open Technology (Public Lab)

Project Community Data Privacy Toolkit (CDPT) Team [ess_grid alias=”publiclab”] Project Overview The Community Data Privacy Toolkit (CDPT) is a set of web-based data management tools for privacy-first, user-friendly data input, archiving, and sharing among social sector organizations. It includes tools to produce and manage semi-anonymous personal data and geodata and...

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The State of Open Humanitarian Data 2020

A new report from the Centre for Humanitarian Data aims to increase awareness of data that is available and missing across humanitarian operations.

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Save, a New Open-Source App, Empowers Citizen Reporters

A new open-source app from OpenArchive is designed to give citizen reports more agency over their mobile media.

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Open Data and Economic Ownership in West African Agriculture

Mobile apps are empowering millions of rural farmers across the West African country of Ghana. But there may be a flip side.

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Companies Respond To GDPR By Blocking EU Users

Mike Masnick, editor of the Techdirt blog, is concerned about the new regulation’s potential to splinter the internet "in a way that we’re not entirely prepared for."

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Digital Impact Grants 2018 Cycle Now Open!

Digital Impact Grants are back! Digital Impact is pleased to announce the opening of the 2018 cycle for our Digital Impact Grants program to advance the use of digital data and infrastructure for social good, and to support better data-informed decision making in philanthropy (particularly individual giving) and in the social sector...

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