It’s been more than 50 years since the passage of the federal Freedom of Information Act. The United States’ government makes thousands of datasets available to the public, and facilitates access ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In conjunction with a data application workshop organized by Asia Open Data Partnership (AODP) at Open Data Day 2021, the current AODP secretariat, Taipei Computer ...

Seems like it was only a few years ago when my town of Chicago launched its first-of-a-kind municipal open data portal. Oh wait, it was only a few years ago. It was 2010. What a difference seven short ...

On Monday, March 11, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a new open data website -- Open.ny.gov-- in an effort to open up data across the federal, state and local levels of government. The new portal ...

The city of Aurora, Ill., is tackling housing needs with the help of its new Community Development Open Data Portal, a platform that not only shows where grant dollars go but illustrates how ...

The term "open data" refers to data that is in the general interest of society and is therefore made available free of charge and for unrestricted reuse. It is published under "free licenses", where ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is providing citizens a tool to help them crack down on crime in the city's most problematic areas at their monthly 1st Tuesday event ...

The public sector gathers and stores large quantities of data that could be of interest to individuals and businesses, but the data is not often accessible to the public. Yet unimpeded access to such ...