Open & Shut

A blog that explores opportunities and challenges of working with open data in closed societies. From the Iran Open Data team.

We’re back! This blog will shine a light on some of the challenges facing open data practitioners in closed societies in this new decade.

Salaam! Open & Shut is also available in Persian!

An adaptable, user-driven mutual aid platform from Indonesia has helped countless communities to organise.

Managing open data portals is taxing and requires consistency. Leveraging a community of data enthusiasts may help you keep up with demand!

In our increasingly data-driven world there’s no time to waste in sharing data literacy skills far and wide. But are we doing enough?

Government open data portals are important, but they’re little more than facades for transparency unless they’re updated and maintained.

Open Data Kosovo's Blerta Thaci explains how Open Data Kosovo is working to transform economic and social opportunities for young Kosovans.

The State of Transparency in the United States

Leading a volunteer mapping initiative in Mali.

Hello everyone!

Nguenga Madeline’s experiences in Cameroon.

After a year of operations, the Iran Open Data platform is getting an overhaul! Find out what we’ve been up to.

What impacts are you trying to achieve? How can you measure and assess it? And how can we do all of this better?

What do communities look like? How do they organise? Who gets to participate? What constraints do they face?

“Open all the data, people will do wonderful things, and the world will be a better place… ?”

Video Sessions from the Conference.

The TL:DR version of the Open & Shut Conference.

Building a crowdsourcing open data community in Nigeria.

Some more wisdom from Nueva Nacion for pro-transparency campaigners.

Nueva Nacion talks us through doing data journalism in a tough environment.

Mapping out the state of Panama’s open data landscape.

gov.tws Lessons for Global Open Government. Part two of our interview with @clkao, or and some great open data lessons from g0v.tw