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The Bus Open Data Service will provide customers with real-time location data of buses in England. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The UK government has announced the launch of a ...

The government hopes that by making the data available, passengers will benefit from better services and increase transparency around pricing. The Department for Transport has said that it is ...

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 ...

The city of Urbana has released a new open data web portal so residents can view the city government’s operations and expenditures. “This portal will allow anyone to see information about the city ...

Scientists and data experts are closely tracking the websites of federal agencies, noting changes to pages dealing with climate change and energy since President Donald Trump took office. On Monday, ...

The City of Redmond has launched into the field of open data with a new portal at www.data.redmond.gov. The City of Redmond has launched into the field of open data with a new portal at ...

The City of Las Vegas publishes a large portion of the data it collects on its website for citizens to see and use—just as the leaders of the federal government’s Open Data initiative hoped they would ...

The buzzword of the moment among local leaders is “open government,” and chief information officers are attempting to make the hype a reality. In the Center for Digital Government’s 2014 Digital ...

It is a movement building steady momentum: a call to make research data, software code and experimental methods publicly available and transparent. A spirit of openness is gaining traction in the ...