openLocal is a quarterly-updated commercial location database, aggregating open data on vacancies, rental valuations, rates & ratepayers, into an integrated time-series database of individual retail, industrial, office and leisure business units.
Following on from our work for the [Public Health Research Data Form](/portfolio/2013/11/insight-into-public-health-research-data-management/) into research data management, Whyt*hawk* collaborated with the WHO and Gates Foundation to research challenges for cross-border health data sharing, with the specific focus on pandemics and pandemic-preparedness.
The Tanzania Open Data Initiative (TODI) is a three-year technical assistance program. The development objective of the activity is to improve the quality and access to information on health, education and water service delivery in Tanzania. The objective of the initiative is to design and conduct a series of open data and data wrangling workshops with members of government institutions and civil society in order to support the broader open data agenda, to provide skills development for data collection and management, and to help participants improve the content and quality of key datasets.
The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council in December 2006. HTSPE and International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) aim to address communication challenges raised in the Instrument and research that mapped and identified the most common challenges and constraints encountered by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), cities, regions, governments and universities running temporary relocation programs for human rights defenders (HRDs) at risk both in and outside the European Union (EU).
National Statistics Offices (NSOs) have the potential to play a pivotal role in the implementation of open data initiatives. As producers and curators of data, the objective of making high quality data more accessible and usable is consistent with their guiding principles.
The Mayor's Office of Policing and Crime has released crime and policing data via the London open data portal but they also have a mandate to present feedback and insight to the public. They wish to translate numerous internal data sources and data visualisation dashboards used for resource management into mechanisms for public engagement.
