Niall Ó Brolcháin and Lukasz Porwol of the eGov Centre at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUI Galway talking about the tensions between Open Data vs Closed Data, GDPR etc. over a nice…
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The Apps4Gaps ( http://apps4gaps.ie ) competition has successfully run each year from 2014 through to 2016. It encourages participants to use open datasets from the Irish Open Data Portal ( http://data.gov.ie ) to produce apps….
The eGov unit of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics @ NUI Galway succeeded in becoming Ireland’s first node of the London based Open Data Institute (ODI) headed by Sir Tim Berners Lee the inventor…
Former Irish Senator Niall Ó Brolcháin a researcher with the eGov unit at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics [1] in the National University of Ireland, Galway asks how sovereign Governments that were constituted in…
Recent findings from analysis of the Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) reports of OGP members show increasing difficulty in linking the implementation of OGP commitments to concrete outcomes and impacts in government and society. A special…
As the European Union’s most westerly city, the last stop on Europe’s Atlantic coast before the Americas, Galway is known throughout the world for its heritage, its culture and for the arts. It is known…
Many people do not see a connection between open data and smart cities. After many years involved in ICT and city governance I would argue that high quality open data is an essential building block…
