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 United States federal open data portal, data.gov, launched in May, 2009, with just 47 datasets. It was not an instant hit. Today, with more 200,000 datasets, it’s a lot more popular. Still, ...

Historically, industries have transformed when they embraced open data and moved away from fragmented, proprietary systems. The results? Faster innovation, increased efficiency and greater ...