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You must be familiar with International Women's Rights Day, World Peace Day, the day dedicated to wa...

It goes by many names - smart farming, e-agriculture, digital farming, agriculture 4.0 (soon 5.0!) -...

In the relaxing seaside town of Pesaro, central Italy, moving around has never been more convenient ...

2020 has been both a good and a bad year for gender equality in the workplace. On the one hand, ther...

The key to getting started with external data is finding the right use cases. External data can add ...

Data on Board 2020 was held on November 5th. This year, our beloved data event took place 100% onlin...

On the first day of the Next Generation Internet Summit, which I attended last month (online, of cou...

What will define the business of tomorrow? Better transparency, new revenue sources, and data democr...

How data can make waste (and city) management smarter 

Data sharing not only creates opportunities for innovations, it also breaks down barriers and serves...

The pandemic of 2020 is forcing local governments and businesses to innovate like never before – and...

Eight months after the first case of Covid-19, we’re taking a look at our experiences in helping gov...

Data regulation, internet governance, platform economics, decentralized finance, digital sovereignty...

Data is changing the way we work. In our previous monthly interview series, we discussed how data is...

When I joined ODS last October, one of the first things I did was flip through the company's employe...

Most companies use PDF and Excel in their everyday operation. Although they are powerful tools for i...

“Smart City” has become a buzzword in the last ten years, inundated with various meanings and implic...

In today's world, no sector can afford to ignore the exponential growth of data. From smartphones to...

Over the last 5 years, open contracting has turned into a global phenomenon. What is it all about? W...

Big data is making a big impact on the environment. Businesses and governments are using all kinds o...

Open data regulation in different sectors   If you have been following us during the “Stay at home” ...

“Explosion” of Open Data Analysis Helps Track and Predict Covid-19 Outbreaks, Experts Say An “explos...

In an age when stakeholders demand concrete evidence of the social commitments touted by companies, ...

From workforce training modeling to tracking the most dangerous Covid-19 flares and positioning fire...

Name: Anna Scott

It has been more than a month since the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic in Europe. Since then, dra...

When you think about open data, your mind probably goes to governments, local administrations or som...

In my last article I shared with you some of the perks of reusing open data through three success st...

“The media is blowing things way out of proportion. After all, it’s nothing more than a new kind of ...

As governments open more data to the public, watchdog groups and think tanks are closely eyeing priv...

If you have been following our blog over the last several weeks, you may have noticed that we launch...

Name: Aura Cifuentes Profession: I am the Director of the Public Innovation Team at the National Dev...

I last went to the Centre Pompidou Library in central Paris on a Sunday morning. I thought I’d be th...

The days of "greenwashing" are in the past. It is no longer acceptable to use the word "green" in ju...

Think back to the late 1950s when the U.S. highway system was being built. Many cities that didn’t i...

If you have been following the adventures of Opendatasoft, you're surely aware that we held our annu...

Today, leaders are equipped with ever-changing technological tools that drastically alter the relati...

You are a PhD candidate at Harvard where you study the implementation and impact of data science in ...

A decade ago, only a handful of Fortune 500 companies issued sustainability reports. In 2016, as man...

June 8 marks the World Oceans Day. The United Nations observes this day to remind everyone of the ma...

On May 23, 2019, the latest edition of our ODiScussions event series took place at the Museum of Lon...

A lot has been said and written about data in the last decade. There seems to be a consensus around ...

Open government data encourages greater civic participation, which in turn leads citizens to demand ...

While the benefits of open data have been clear for some time, there’s a major concern preventing mo...

If you live in an urban area, you're probably aware of the transformation taking place in how you mo...

Do you know about the European Heritage Days? Dating back to 1984, this annual weekend opens up diff...

Stop me if this sounds familiar: Your business has invested heavily in analytics. And yet now that y...

Although the shipping industry is often considered traditional for its slow embrace of new technolog...

If you’re like me, you probably remember sitting in the back seat of the family car as a child, sear...

Q. What can Smart City leaders do to use data to more effectively impact municipal outcomes?   A. Le...

Following the publication of this article article, we were able to speak with Mike Lydon, an expert ...

Utilities are making big bets on analytics and smart technology, seizing the opportunities provided ...

Choosing a point of origin for the modern open data movement is challenging. I, like many others, ch...

The modern era of urbanization has picked the perfect moment to arrive in a city near you. The time ...

Smart grids, or intelligent electrical networks, are attracting increased worldwide attention. They ...

Parts 1 and 2 of this series look at U.S. mayors’ commitment to upholding the Paris Agreement throug...

We read and fantasize endlessly about the concept of the Smart City. Representations of these cities...

In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the commitment cities have made to continue to uphold the Par...

 “We’re getting out.” With those words, President Donald Trump announced on June 1, 2017 that the Un...

Reporter Bill Lucia posed a tough question in the April issue of Route Fifty: “How Does a Town of 31...

  As the volume of data cities generate over the course of their day-to-day activities steadily augm...

Across the world, citizens are standing up to demand greater transparency and accountability from th...

Alex was busy planting a new hedge in her front yard when a neighbor delivered some surprising advic...

Back in December, we took part in the Open Government Partnership 2016 Global Summit. While attendin...

Open data is digital information that is licensed in a way that it is available to anyone, with just...

Following our project to interconnect open data portals around the world, our team set out on a new ...

To date, smart city initiatives have been largely top down efforts accompanied by hefty infrastructu...