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October 30, 2013
Sunand Menon, previous Markets For Good guest author of one our most highly visited posts, has offered a recent thought piece (Stop Assuming Your Data Will Bring You Riches) that deserves a deeper examination. I’d like to use it to raise more questions (not give answers) about the pathways to sustainable business models for open […]
October 29, 2013
There is an excitement and focus on the potential of open data; but, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a good number of people in the trenches developing sharper thought and faster iterations – trying to build an infrastructure (business models, components, skills, etc.) that can help sustain the good work. This is a full […]
October 23, 2013
Frieda Werner, Wheelmap’s product and community manager, writes about the conscious choice to make open data the center of their business model.
October 22, 2013
With so much activity going on in the open data space, we appreciate this quick and personal tour from Yo Yoshida, CEO and co-founder of Appallicious. The civic app businesses Yo cycles through here have one clear thing in common: high utility for citizens in a local context, a critical first component of any emerging […]
October 16, 2013
Diego May, CEO and co-founder of Junar, gives a quick dissection of the value equation for open data. As we sort through ways to make open data sustainable to produce and sustainable as a business driver, things can quickly become complex. But, no matter how complex the technologies or the process of deploying new data […]
October 15, 2013
Since we’re in a nascent space when it comes to open data business models, we’ll do as much looking for components and philosophies underlying them as we will for models in action. A TechSoupGlobal team consisting of Founder, Daniel Ben-Horin, Jessica Galeria, and Keisha Taylor take up that question – the underlying parts – and […]
October 9, 2013
Much of the conversation on open data centers on its biggest source: government. It stands to reason, then, that many social sector business models that leverage open data will involve some sort of direct or indirect interaction with government. We thought we would find go directly to the source to understand more about cities and […]
October 8, 2013
The following mini-interview is a follow-up to this article: 5 Transformational Forces That Should Be Driving The Social Sector (But Aren’t). The web is full of insightful statements. It’s more difficult to find the discussions that follow them as they most often take place offline and in our heads. We appreciate this opportunity for a […]
October 7, 2013
Our Data?? Less and less guarded in ye olde smoke-filled room… (Left, ejh) In keeping with our focus on data infrastructure, we’re staying under the hood to consider the business models that define our work: how we sustain market presence and attract the funding to do that while working with Open Data. …
October 4, 2013
What if we were to turn the tables and have the consumer managing the privacy of other people and organizations? There’s a new game in the emerging “serious gaming” genre out that does just that. DataDealer has received extensive feedback from young people, teachers, media educators and the general public. Further, it has won numerous […]
