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10 February 2013
First Big Pharma Company Announces Support For Clinical Data Transparency Campaign: Who's Next?
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It would be something of understatement to say that the spiralling cost of healthcare has become a highly-charged political issue in the ...
08 December 2012
How Open Data Can Save Money - and Lives
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Yesterday I was writing about open access and open data in the context of the EU' s Horizon 2020 initiative. Closer to home, I came...
11 November 2012
Is The EU's New Directive On Clinical Trials Moving In The Wrong Direction?
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It's a cliché that we live in a world increasingly awash with digital data. Even though it all comes down to 1s and 0s, not all data...
13 September 2012
Open Data Institute Gets Ready to Open Its Doors
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Open data continues to spread around the world - here's a great recent summary of what's happening where. But simply making gove...
10 August 2012
Unleashing the Potential of Open Data
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It seems a long while ago now, but June was a pretty hectic month in this neck of the woods, since it saw the final push to get ACTA reject...
15 July 2012
Is Open Data A Boon Or A Bane?
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Techdirt often writes about the benefits of openness and sharing. One area that is increasingly coming to the fore is open data -- for e...
23 June 2012
Why Basic Company Data Must Be Open
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Last year I wrote about the OpenCorporates project, which describes itself as follows: On Open Enterprise blog .
10 June 2012
Opening Up About the Open Data Institute
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As I've noted before, open data is one area where the UK government shines - unlike open source, where it has yet to deliver the goods...
05 May 2012
EU Commissioner Kroes: 'We Are Now Likely To Be In A World Without SOPA And Without ACTA'
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Neelie Kroes gave a keynote speech at this year's re:publica conference in Berlin (disclosure: I spoke there too) that brought toget...
20 March 2012
Welcome to the Open Data User Group
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Back in October I wrote about a UK government consultation on the subject of the proposed Public Data Corporation. The government has n...
13 March 2012
Do We Have a Right To Open Public Data?
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The progress made by the open data movement is pretty extraordinary. A few years ago, data was something that only statisticians cared a...
02 February 2012
Another Reason We Need Open Government Data: To Avoid Information Asymmetries
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Can the future aggregate actions of people be predicted from relevant sets of data that describe them? That, of course, is what Isaac As...
13 December 2011
Open Data: Europe Starts to Get It
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As readers of this blog will have noticed, open data is particularly hot at the moment. Whether that will endure is another matter, but f...
08 December 2011
From Open Source to Open Research: Horizon 2020
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Last week I took part in a meeting at the European Parliament entitled “Horizon 2020: Investing in the common good”. Here's the backg...
Who Owns The Data Collected About You From Devices Inside Your Body?
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People have started to wake up to the fact that companies like Google and Facebook hold huge quantities of data about their users. That r...
01 December 2011
More UK Open Data Moves - and Why That Makes Sense
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In striking contrast with its disappointing performance in terms of supporting open source, the UK government continues to take huge strid...
21 November 2011
Of Open Data Startups and Open Businesses
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Last week I was invited to talk at the South Tyrol Free Software Conference which took place in northern Italy, in the city of Bolzano (d...
24 October 2011
Please Respond to the PDC Consultation (and PDQ)
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Last month I wrote about the UK government's "Making Open Data Real" consultation. That's actually just the first par...
03 October 2011
Well, I Do Declare: Washington and Open Government Declarations
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There seems to be something in the air (maybe it's the crazy weather): everyone is making “declarations”. On Open Enterprise blog .
19 September 2011
Making Open Data Real: A Response
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the “ Making Data Real ”consultation, promising to post my response. I have to admit that replying ...
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