Last month Banque de France governor, François Villeroy de Galhau announced the opening of an open data room, where researchers will be able to explore 400m lines of anonymised data about financial services, companies and households.
Out of work since December, Juan Ochoa was delighted when a staffing firm recently responded to his posting on Hotjobs.com with an opening for a data entry clerk.
The Minister of State in charge of the public service, who gave the go of this formation, underlined that the opening of the data requires a consequent legislative framework, since any data is called to be opened.
However, the opening of government data faces multiple political, legal, and technical challenges.
The opening of the data is likely to be important for Foursquare in the long run.
The unprecedented opening of government data, YouTube town halls, and tracking federal spending online have been hallmarks of the Obama presidency.
Government watchdog the National Audit Office last month slammed the government's release of data, saying that the government had not performed any sort of cost/benefits analysis, that the opening of data had actually increased government spending and that the government's policies on open data were all over the map and inconsistently applied.
Microsoft announced the opening of Cloud Form data centers in May and a partnership with Liquid Telecom in August to accelerate cloud adoption in Africa.
Microsoft announced the opening of Cloud Form data centers in May and a partnership with Liquid Telecom in August to accelerate cloud adoption in Africa.
It would be helpful for us if the SCOSTEP sets a general regulation regarding the opening of data, as do other international science communities, e.g., meteorology and hydrology, such as setting the maximum moratorium period to 1 or 2 years for data obtained by international scientific projects.
