Tech groups from nonprofits, companies, federal agencies and universities from across the country unveiled various digital tools based on federal data. Census Citizen Services Commerce Tech groups ...

The Obama administration unveiled 29 new digital tools Thursday developed with federal open data under its Opportunity Project launched in March. The tools, some of which were developed by big names ...

Fresh off launching the platform for the White House’s community open data project, the Census Bureau has released another tool to let people craft their own measure of income inequality. MIDAAS — ...

Cities have the dual responsibilities of keeping citizens informed while providing them with tools to act on that information. More U.S. municipalities are fulfilling those obligations with open-data ...

It can be tough to manage data manually, and doing so can sometimes lead to errors or inefficiencies. Spreadsheets can get overly complex, and data quality can suffer. This has become a large enough ...

The World Bank’s Open Data Initiative allows free and open sharing of data and information. Demand for open data is growing around the world, including in Poland. The new Open Access policy formalizes ...

Fostering and supporting innovation is, quite literally, the mission of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). To advance this mission, the USPTO hosts a suite of web portals that ...

In a recent Businessweek article, an IBM exec pointed out that “Today, the amount of information we produce increases by about 800 megabytes per year for every man, woman, and child on the planet.” ...

Kenya is at the forefront of the open data movement in Africa thanks to initiatives such as crowdsourcing software Ushahidi and government tracker Uchaguzi. At the recent The Next Web Conference ...