Over the last weeks, I started exploring XBRL, the eXtensible Business Reporting Language. Its purpose is “to improve the accountability and transparency of business performance globally, by providing the open data exchange standard for business reporting.” There are clear parallels with IATI, the International Aid Transparency Initiative, the open data exchange standard for development and […]
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Around the web, again: interesting events
Looking forward to some interesting upcoming events: HackMIT, Partos Innovation Festival, Declarative Amsterdam
Webmaster spam
It’s heart-warming to get emails from people who read one of my blog posts of over a decade ago, and took the effort to write to me that their product is missing, or that they have a nice post about something too. Could you mention it in your article as an extra and fresh resource? […]
The state of open data in the development sector
For completeness, I copied my post from the Data4Development site: The State of Open Data (Davies et al., 2019) is an extensive report about “all things open data”. Chapter 5 deals with open data for development assistance and humanitarian action, and highlights the crucial chicken-and-egg problem we see as well: Lack of investment in data […]
Around the web in recent months
Fundstücke published this week:
- New Piwik Release v1.11: New Features & Design Changes! [+ Screenshots]8 Mar 2013, Piwik team
We are very excited to announce the immediate availability of Piwik v1.11!
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How to upd…
Around the web in week 48, 2012
Fundstücke published this week:
- UNCTAD sees expanding opportunity for developing countries to engage in local software development30 Nov 2012
Information Economy Report 2012
- Concord Aidwatch 201230 Nov 2012
The AidWatch Special Report assesses the process of the Busan Partnership Agreement and the quality …
Around the web in week 47, 2012
Fundstücke published this week:
- UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) call for proposals25 Nov 2012
The United Nations Democracy Fund invites civil society organizations to submit proposals for fundin…
- MakerBot store in New York now officially open (TechCrunch)24 Nov 2012
MakerBot Introduces 3D Photo Booth In Its New York Store, Print Your Face In 3D
- Spotify’s plan for rescuing the music industry: let it fall apart first – Quartz21 Nov 2012
A business model based on giving access to, rather than owning rights of music.
- Mobile and Development Intelligence19 Nov 2012
Info and data on organisations, providers, projects working on ‘mobile for good’
- Akvo FLOW and the Text to Change SMS service, in one short film.21 Nov 2012, Luuk Diphoorn
If you’ve ever wanted to know how Akvo FLOW and the Text to Change SMS service can work along…