The Obama Administration says that big data is a big deal
and announced the “Big Data
Research and Development Initiative” starting with more than $200 million
in new commitments that will improve tools and techniques for accessing,
organizing and gleaning discoveries within digital data. Speaking of data, you
can learn how companies and governments use data
mining to discover more about you than you think. Tired of reading? You can
watch Rufus Polluck, of the Open Knowledge Foundation, give his talk during the
LIFT 2012 conference entitled Open
Data: How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going. Recently, Timor-Leste released the data that development partners have entered
in the Ministry’s Aid
Management Platform to the public, and the Catholic Overseas Development
Agency (CAFOD) became the latest NGO to publish
its data to the IATI standard. Wikimedia
Deutschland decides to take on data and plans to launch Wikidata
in three phases, the first to be finished by August 2012. With all the hype
that open data
is getting worldwide, it’s no surprise that everyone is already getting
excited for the Open Knowledge Festival
that will take place in Helsinki, Finland this September. Will you be there?
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