The Philippines launches a website providing downloadable data from government agencies MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine government on Thursday, January 16, launched data.gov.ph, a website that ...

The United States federal open data portal, data.gov, launched in May, 2009, with just 47 datasets. It was not an instant hit. Today, with more 200,000 datasets, it’s a lot more popular. Still, ...

It’s been more than 50 years since the passage of the federal Freedom of Information Act. The United States’ government makes thousands of datasets available to the public, and facilitates access ...

The U.S. Government collects and maintains a database of nearly 200,000 data sets - free and open for public use. You can find data relating to health, energy, climate, manufacturing and many other ...

Data.gov, the federal government’s central catalog for open data sets, is the latest casualty of the ongoing government shutdown. Visitors to the site are now met ...

Government reformers and advocates believe that two contemporary phenomena hold the potential to change how people engage with governments at all levels. The first is data. There is more of it than ...

Data.gov heavily relies on HTML and PDF for its file formats, leaving two George Mason University researchers to ponder if the federal government’s data repository is achieving what it set out to ...

The European Commission has been banging the open data drum for a while now, launching its Open Data Strategy for Europe back in 2011. Today another step along the road to liberating government data ...