23 October 2024
Chief Data Officers are central to organizations becoming data-centric, maximizing data sharing to ensure that everyone has immediate access to the information they need. We explore the challenges they face - and how they can be overcome with the right strategy and technology.
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12 April 2022
Strong data governance is vital to extend the use and value of your data across your organization and ecosystem, but also to protect it and meet regulatory obligations. We explain the benefits and challenges of data governance and share best practice advice for successfully introducing programs that will help you become a data-driven organization.
14 March 2022
Data is now crucial to everyone’s lives. That means we need to democratize access to data and ensure it is available to all, through experiences that are seamless and easily understandable. Here we outline the benefits of data democratization to businesses, employees, citizens and the public sector, and the challenges to delivering it.
02 March 2022
March 5 marks Open Data Day 2022. As part of the celebrations we're highlighting the impact of open data and how data democratization is developing across the world through key use cases.
16 November 2020
On the first day of the Next Generation Internet Summit, one of the key topics on the agenda was the future of the data economy. Why does it matter today?
17 September 2020
Launching a data sharing portal can seem like a huge task. There are many questions to answer, a variety of stakeholders to engage, and of course a lot of data to prepare. But the effort is worthwhile in the end to help your organization improve transparency, accountability, efficiency in the long-run.
18 August 2020
“Better data is better policy.” -- Rudi Borrman, Deputy Director of Open Government Partnership Local. In this article, we interviewed him about how open data is changing governance in Argentina and the future of public policy.
23 July 2020
“Simple data access is no longer the heart of the matter. The game changer for businesses is to catch up to the speed of data sharing and exploitation.” -- Jean-Marc Lazard, CEO
27 March 2020
As governments open more data to the public, watchdog groups and think tanks are closely eyeing privacy protections to ensure that released data does not violate citizens’ privacy. That’s a good thing, because the focus on privacy has spawned innovations in the way data is protected and released.
16 March 2020
Access to data is changing the way in which we all work. We sat down for a chat with Aura Cifuentes, Director of the Public Innovation Team at the National Development Department for the Government of Colombia.
11 March 2020
Even in the most advanced organizations, foundational skills like data cleaning, basic analysis, and visualization can take you a long way toward meeting your goals.
19 September 2018
The Toronto waterfront (Quayside) may be redeveloped as a residential and commercial neighborhood largely through the involvement Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet subsidiary company. This blog post looks at the data governance issues that the project raises.
08 January 2018
In this edition of our "Open Data Discussions" podcast we spoke with Anthony Fung, who told us more about the open data project in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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11 October 2022
To meet its current challenges around sustainability, efficiency, transparency and innovation the UK utility sector needs to become more data-driven. Introducing our new utility ebook, this blog outlines the obstacles to data democratization and how the industry can overcome them, based on best practice and data sharing use cases from across Europe.
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