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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...

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...

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 –...

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...

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...

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...

Any fast-moving phenomenon breeds a requisite and parallel set of caveats. Srik Gopalakrishnan of FSG gives a sharp look into both the big data phenomenon and the places where we might want to apply the thought brakes. …

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: The following post is a dispatch from both the classroom and the field. Nicolas Galarza looks at an example of social entrepreneurship in Colombia and finds links between open data and the diffusion of innovation. The result is a route to market development that better reaches...

Gisli Olafsson, Emergency Response Director at NetHope describes a large-scale project underway that is using open data to transform and coordinate humanitarian crisis response: the Open Humanitarian Initiative. If you’re involved in humanitarian work and/or crisis response, feel free to add your comment here on ways that you’re working with...

We find ourselves in the flurry of activity that is to be expected of the dawn of any movement. On this ground, there is an equalizing factor as the social sector, business, and government are all staring into an opportunity that demands immediate ramping of high-quality data practice. In that...