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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.

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.

Open data is vital to meet the growing needs of citizens, consumers and other stakeholders for increased public sector transparency. How are countries reacting to these demands? Learn more in the European Commission's 2022 Open Data Maturity report.

In an increasingly urban world, there’s a real need for municipalities to become smarter. They have to become more efficient, innovative, sustainable, and responsive to the needs of stakeholders. Based on our new smart city ebook, this blog explains how open data fuels smart communities, providing in-depth use cases and strategies for success.

How can data sharing help different public sector organizations meet their changing objectives? To demonstrate its power we look at how multiple agencies and municipalities in North Carolina are harnessing data to increase efficiency, transparency and innovation.

The Opendatasoft Data hub is a platform that gathers more than 29,000 open data datasets published by public and private sector organizations. It also hosts more than 600 reference datasets, maintained and updated by our teams.

How can open data underpin digital transformation across the Middle East, and what are the challenges to its adoption? We look at the benefits open data brings, illustrated with best practice examples from our customers.

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.

The benefits of smart cities are universal and spread well beyond major conurbations. Municipalities of all sizes can become smart through a combination of open data, sensors and new ways of sharing information, whatever their budgets or resources.

Introducing open data portals can transform the efficiency, effectiveness and transparency of state judiciaries, sharing information with key stakeholders, from legislators and attorneys to citizens. By looking at the experiences of North Carolina, this blog outlines the benefits and challenges to opening up state judicial data.

Data democratization requires a strong data experience platform that is flexible enough to meet a range of user needs. In this blog we bring together a selection of our customers’ favorite features that help them save time and deliver compelling data experiences.

By becoming data-driven and sharing information internally and externally state governments can boost efficiency, increase transparency and support better decision-making. Based on the experiences of the North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management we explain the importance of open data to successful state government.