Working Paper 3 of the Programmable City Project is a response to the Republic of Ireland's Department of Public Expenditures and Reform (DPER) Open Data launch and the reports produced by Insight at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), who were awarded the contract from a...

The purpose of this paper is to better understand how open and shared data impacts the economy. Focusing on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups, we consider 354 case studies of companies currently using open data, so that we can better understand how open data can be used and...

This report seeks to remedy that informational shortcoming. Supported by Omidyar Network, the GovLab has conducted 19 detailed case studies of open data projects around the world. The case studies were selected for their sectoral and geographic representativeness. They were built in part from...

In essence, the book seeks to answer the following key questions:• What makes open data uniquely relevant to developing economies?• How can the impact of open data in developing economies be captured and evidence be developed?• How can open data be leveraged as a new asset for...

Smart meter open data is becoming widely available due to the mass installation of smart meters. Consumer data analytic methods are available in literature since several years ago, but they seldom specify the steps taken in data treatment, nor do they highlight the particularities that can arise...