10 May 2013 | News

US unveils new Open Data Policies

In a bid to make information generated and stored by the Federal Government more open and accessible, the White House unveiled a new Executive Order and Open Data Policy which declared information as a “valuable national asset” that should be made easily accessible to the public.

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9 May 2013 | News

UK University Establishes Open Source Geospatial Lab

The University of SouthHampton, one of the leading research universities in the UK, announced the establishment of an Open Source Geospatial Laboratory which aims to support the growing demand for the development of open source geospatial software technologies, trainings and expertise across various industries.

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8 May 2013 | News

Driving Better Governance with Open Source

Mark Bohannon, Vice President for Corporate Affairs & Global Public Policy at Red Hat gives his take on how governments are now actively becoming participants in the open source community, as opposed to simply being purchasers of IT solutions.

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3 May 2013 | News

Improving Library Services in Singapore with ICT - Part II

FutureGov continues our conversation with Lee Kee Siang, CIO and Director, Technology & Innovation, at the National Library Board (NLB), Singapore, to discuss the growing importance of data sharing and analytics.

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29 April 2013 | News

Open Source by default?

Gunnar Hellekson, Chief Technology Strategist for Red Hat’s US Public Sector Group, shares his thoughts on why Open Source is the best form of citizen participation and why its crucial in fostering a culture of innovation.

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26 April 2013 | News

Open Government Partnership welcomes new member countries

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the worldwide web, joined Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude in welcoming eight new countries to the Open Government Partnership (OGP) during their Ministerial Steering Committee meeting in London yesterday.

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25 April 2013 | News

Thailand launches new portals for govt data and apps

Electronic Government Agency, Thailand yesterday announced the registration of two new domains; data.go.th and apps.go.th, to be an open data and a cloud-based application centre websites for the government.

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19 April 2013 | News

Philippine Agriculture Department boosts transparency with Open Data portal

As support to President Aquino’s call for transparency, the Department of Agriculture launched its open data portal called DAAN (Department of Agriculture Accountability Network) website which aims to promote public awareness of its community-focused projects and activities nationwide.

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18 April 2013 | News

Indonesia to curb corruption with crowdsourcing portal

Open Government Indonesia launched recently a corruption reporting portal called “Lapor” which aims to encourage citizens to file corruption complaints and other fraudulent conduct done by those in the Public Service.

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10 April 2013 | News

Online tool to request information launched in Canada

The Government of Canada has launched a pilot project to allow Canadian citizens and residents to file information and privacy requests online.

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