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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30 January 2024
What are the challenges municipalities face when it comes to effective data governance. We look at the importance of data portals and robust data governance programs to enable municipalities to securely share reliable, compliant data internally and externally.
08 January 2024
What is the state of open data maturity across Europe? We analyze the latest EU Open Data Maturity Report to understand progress to date and where countries need to focus to increase data sharing and enable data democratization.
03 October 2023
What motivates organizations to embark on a data portal project? How do they implement data portals? What are the expected benefits of a data portal and what functions should it have?
26 September 2023
Around the world, trust levels between government organizations and citizens are dropping. Rebuilding trust relies on greater transparency - we explore the importance of data sharing to the process and outline how municipalities can create effective open data portals to strengthen engagement with their stakeholders.
14 August 2023
To drive usage of your city or town’s data portal you need to publish information residents and visitors want to see, accessible in ways that best meet their needs. Based on analysis of our North American customers, we pinpoint the most popular datasets you should look to share.
26 June 2023
Industry regulator Ofwat is introducing new requirements around data sharing for the UK water sector. We explore the benefits of opening data across the sector and highlight best practice examples of other utilities that water companies can learn from.
30 May 2023
How can you use data to make people’s lives better? To find out, we interviewed Canadian social enterprise Youthful Cities to learn how it is empowering young people with a combination of relevant data and the tools they need to understand and take action based on this information.
15 May 2023
Digital equity is key to empowering everyone to interact confidently in today’s digital world. Our blog explains the importance of data skills to digital inclusion - and how organizations can help drive data democratization.
02 May 2023
Learn from the City of Long Beach as it provides best practice on sharing the right data and ensuring that it is used by key stakeholders in our in-depth Q&A blog.
17 April 2023
When planning your data project it can be tempting to base it around open source technology. However, this can generate additional costs and require greater resources to implement and manage, as our blog explains.
03 April 2023
What holds back the sharing of geographic data and how can these barriers be overcome? Our blog shares best practice for unlocking greater value from your GIS data by making it part of your wider open data program.
20 March 2023
How can utilities drive greater efficiency, boost collaboration, increase transparency and accelerate decarbonization? Using the experiences of UK Power Networks, our blog outlines how information sharing underpins the shift to Net Zero through the creation of data-driven ecosystems.
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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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