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Engagement Fund: Objective Quality of Life Index based on Open Data - Brian O'Mullane - Creme Software

17 Iúil 2017

OverviewOften standard of living is emphasised over quality of life, in part due to the fact that it is easier to measure, whereas quality of life gives the better measure of the success of society. With the resolution of the quality of life measures...

Engagement Fund: Agricultural Correlations from Open Data - John O'Brien, Creme Software

17 Iúil 2017

OverviewThe aim of our project was to make it easier to explore agricultural open data and thereby increase public engagement with the data themselves and with the open data project generally.We downloaded the most relevant of the more than 100...

Engagement Fund: Re-calling outcomes from 1st Irish Citizen Workshop on Open Data & Hospital Waiting Lists and launching Workshop no 2 - Open Knowledge Ireland

17 Iúil 2017

On Saturday March 25th 2017, Open Knowledge Ireland held the first Open Data Citizen Workshop on Hospital Waiting Lists in Ireland. The workshop was well attended with citizens of different professional backgrounds and a shared interest in exploring...

Open Data Training Framework now available to Public Bodies

6 Iúil 2017

Under Ireland's Open Data Initiative and as set out in Ireland's Open Data Strategy 2017-2022 (in consultation until 4th July 2017), Public Bodies are to identify and publish appropriate datasets on the web as Open Data. Our Open Data mission is to...

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

21 Meitheamh 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 Meitheamh 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 Meitheamh 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 Bealtaine 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 Bealtaine 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 Bealtaine 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 Aibreán 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 Aibreán 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 Aibreán 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 Feabhra 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 Feabhra 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 Feabhra 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 Feabhra 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 Feabhra 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 Feabhra 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 Nollaig 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 Nollaig 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 -...

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Engagement Fund: Objective Quality of Life Index based on Open Data - Brian O'Mullane - Creme Software

Engagement Fund: Agricultural Correlations from Open Data - John O'Brien, Creme Software

Engagement Fund: Re-calling outcomes from 1st Irish Citizen Workshop on Open Data & Hospital Waiting Lists and launching Workshop no 2 - Open Knowledge Ireland

Open Data Training Framework now available to Public Bodies

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

Open Data portal wins eGovernment Award

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

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

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

Open Data portal nominated for an eGovernment Award

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

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

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

Minutes of Open Data Governance board meeting 1 February, 2017

Request for Tenders

Announcing HackYourWayDay Winners

Ireland rated as 'a trendsetter' in Open Data

Second webinar on Open Data

Forthcoming hackathon on open government data

Note of Open Data Governance Board meeting 30 November, 2016

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

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