Open Knowledge

We invited the community to send in their 2014 open data index stories.

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Africa

Nigeria / Oludotun Babayemi

After 20 years outside of Nigeria, Gabriel just arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, and would like to take the next bus ...

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Americas

Paraguay / Juan Pane

Earlier this year I proposed to the teach an Open Data course, lasting the whole semester, for the Computer Science (Informatics Engineering) curriculum at the ...

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Asia/Pacific

China / Feng Gao

Last year, China was ranked at 34 out of 70 countries in the Global Open Data Index. Many of my friends in the open data ...

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Malaysia / Tirath Ramdas

2014 has been an important year for Open Data in Malaysia. In June, the Prime Minister’s department launched data.gov.my, and more recently ...

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Nepal / Nikesh Balami

To monitor and measure the openness of data in the context of our country, Nepal, we decided to continue to contribute to the Global Open ...

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New Zealand / Mark Heseltine

The Open Data movement in New Zealand continues to mature. Statistics, indicators and geographic information are published by the central government, increasingly in machine-friendly formats ...

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Europe

Moldova / Victoria Vlad

Two years ago, in November 2012, at a OpenSpending Workshop on Budget Monitoring in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, I first learned about the Open Knowledge ...

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Bulgaria / Boyan Yurukov

Overall, within the past year little has changed in regards to open data in Bulgaria. The political instability and short term of the former cabinet ...

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Belgium / Pieter-Jan Pauwels

In early 2014, we used the Global Open Data Index to motivate open data experts, opinion leaders and government officials to gather for the very ...

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Middle East

Israel / Mor Rubinstein

For the second year in a row, the Global Open Data Index caught us up in the midst of the Jewish holiday season. Luckily, we ...

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Oman / Riyadh Al-Balushi

Oman has made significant accomplishments in releasing government data to the public, but a lot of effort still needs to be made to make Omani ...

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Egypt / Tarek Amr

Last year I contributed to parts of the Index, but the majority of the work was done by Rayna. This year it was a much ...

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