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Minister Donohoe launches public consultation process for the national Open Data Strategy 2017-2022

21 June 2017

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Paschal Donohoe T.D, today (Tuesday 20th June) launched a public consultation on the draft national Open Data Strategy 2017-2022.Studies show that publication of official non-personal data in open format...

Open Data portal wins eGovernment Award

7 June 2017

The Open Data Unit were delighted when the national Open Data portal was shortlisted for an eGovernment award this year and were thrilled when it won ‘best award’ in the general category. The Ireland eGovernment Awards ceremony took place in Dublin...

Visit the Open Data Exhibition Stand at the Data Summit on 15/16 June 2017

7 June 2017

The Minister for Data Protection and the Government Data Forum are hosting the Data Summit on 15 and 16 June this year in the Convention Centre Dublin and the Open Data Unit is delighted to have the opportunity to host an exhibition stand at the event...

Engagement Fund: Crimes at Garda Station Level and Pedestrian Footfall visualisations by Cyril Connolly, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire.

23 May 2017

As the data visualisation pioneer John Tukey stated one of the great things about working as a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s back yard! For the open data engagement fund I selected two back yards - crime and pedestrian footfall in...

Engagement Fund: Geo Open Data Publishing Best Practices in a Day (training) by Trevor Alcorn, Marine Institute

17 May 2017

The Marine Institute hosted two “Geo Open Data Publishing Best Practices in a Day” training courses funded under the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform sponsored Open Data Engagement Fund at the Marine Institute offices in Galway (February...

Open Data portal nominated for an eGovernment Award

16 May 2017

We are delighted that the national Open Data portal has been shortlisted for an eGovernment award and eagerly await the outcome of the 2017 award results. The ceremony is taking place on Friday 26th May in Dublin Castle. A full list of the...

Engagement Fund: Health data workshop facilitated by Open Knowledge Ireland - one attendee's experience

28 April 2017

As part of the Engagement Fund project, Open Knowledge Ireland has run the first of a series of 4 citizen workshops focused on exploring use cases of open data using hospital waiting lists recently published as open data, together with other health...

Government Spending in Ireland, see where your money goes…….

11 April 2017

Discover some of the uses that can be made from open data by taking a look at our ‘Showcase’ page. Data users including government can re-use government Open Data datasets to build new apps, websites or other useful products. A recently added...

Engagement Fund: Apps4Gaps - Building Apps with Open Data- Niall ó Brolcháin, Insight Centre for Data Analytics

4 April 2017

The Apps4Gaps ( http://apps4gaps.ie ) competition has successfully run each year from 2014 through to 2016. It encourages participants to use open datasets from the Irish Open Data Portal ( http://data.gov.ie ) to produce apps. It is run as a...

Minutes of Open Data Governance board meeting 1 February, 2017

20 February 2017

Attendance: Emer Coleman (Chair), Dennis Jennings, Denis Parfenov, Sandra Collins, Cronan McNamara, Dietrich Rebholz, Sue Duke, Barry Lowry, Ashling Cunningham Apologies: Andrew O’Sullivan, Daithí Mac Síthigh Secretariat: Evelyn O'Connor, Fiona...

Request for Tenders

20 February 2017

The Open Data Unit has recently issued two Request for Tenders for the provision of support to the Open Data Initiative - the first for the provision of open data training and the second for the provision of open data technical assistance and support...

Announcing HackYourWayDay Winners

16 February 2017

The judges have deliberated and voted and the results are in. We are pleased to say that the x-Gov Eircodes Hackathon held on February 10th was a great success and congratulations to the three winners. In case you missed it, the theme of...

Ireland rated as 'a trendsetter' in Open Data

14 February 2017

Ireland has ranked very highly in a report (link is external) published by the European Portal on how European countries have developed their Open Data Maturity since 2015. Ireland has in fact scored overall third place in terms of Open Data Maturity...

Second webinar on Open Data

8 February 2017

On Wednesday 8th February the second of a series of webinars on Open Data organised by the European Open Data Portal will take place. The theme is - What can Open Data do to improve transport & mobility? Registration details are here.The first...

Forthcoming hackathon on open government data

7 February 2017

A hackathon using HSE, LGMA and other government open data to try and make finding and using government services easier will take place on Friday 10th February in the NDRC, the Digital Exchange, Crane Street, Dublin, D08 HKR9. The hackathon will...

Note of Open Data Governance Board meeting 30 November, 2016

20 December 2016

Attendance: Emer Coleman (Chair), Dennis Jennings, Denis Parfenov, Sandra Collins, Cronan McNamara, Daithí Mac Síthigh, Apologies: Dietrich Rebholz, Sue Duke, Barry Lowry, Andrew O’Sullivan, Ashling Cunningham Secretariat: Evelyn O'Connor, Fiona...

Open Data Engagement Fund 2016 - And the winners are .......................

12 December 2016

Blog by Emer Coleman I am delighted to report that the inaugural ‘Open Data Engagement Fund 2016’ was a great success with a total of 29 applications received by the closing date of 16th November 2016. 10 applications were received under category A -...

Upcoming series of webinars on Open Data

17 November 2016

On Wednesday 30 November the first of a series of webinars on Open Data organised by the European Open Data Portal will take place. This is the first in a series of webinars taking place in the coming months. This first webinar will be a general...

Linked Data: A new format for Ireland’s Geospatial data

8 November 2016

In a collaboration between Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) and the ADAPT research centre, Ireland’s geospatial information has been made available as Linked Data on a dedicated portal at http://data.geohive.ie/ and will also be available...

Note of Open Data Governance Board meeting - 25 October, 2016

7 November 2016

Attendance: Dennis Jennings (acting Chair), Denis Parfenov, Sandra Collins, Cronan McNamara, Barry Lowry, Andrew O’Sullivan, Daithí Mac Síthigh, Ashling CunninghamApologies: Emer Coleman (Chair), Dietrich Rebholz, Sue Duke Secretariat: Evelyn...

Submit a Showcase!

21 October 2016

Have you built something that uses datasets from Data.gov.ie? if so, submit a showcase for display! Now more than ever, innovative businesses, start-ups and individuals are tapping into open data to improve and develop new products and services, from...