It’s been said before: if big data is about machines, then small data is about people. By their very…

Open Data Institute has released a method report highlighting lessons on supporting public sector open data leaderships.

The Locking the Web Open summit is open to all those committed to participating in and helping to create what Lucy Bernholz calls “digital civil society.”

IndiaSpend is India’s first data journalism initiative that uses open data to analyze a range of issues in order to foster better accountability in government.

  Jake Porway expressed in his piece “The Trials and Tribulations of Data Visualization for Good,” that, “data visualization without…

  In March of 2013, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched a global challenge called “Increasing Interoperability of Social Good…

  Contributors to the Markets For Good community have highlighted the importance of understanding data, and beyond simply understanding it,…

  Have you ever read an article in the Economist criticizing countries on their corruption levels and wondered what their…

  Data is a good thing, and as we know you can never have too much of a good thing,…

As President Obama takes to SXSW to encourage techies to join government, we need to ask not only how technology can improve democracy, but how democracy must shape civic technology.