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Launch of Open Data Innovation and Outreach Fund 2022-2023 December 5, 2022
It's that time of year again when the Open Data teams opens up our collection of data to data scientists, analysts and enthusiasts, to tech gurus, to students and anyone with a vested interest in open government. The Open DataNI Innovation and ...
OpenDataNI site availability September 5, 2022
Right from its initial launch back in November 2015, OpenDataNI has been something of a steady rock in a sea of change, looking and functioning the same now as it did from day one. In all that time, we hope that you, the OpenDataNI community, have ...
Department of Finance Departmental Spend Dataset Publication Juni 1, 2022
The Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland 2020 - 2023 commits the Northern Ireland Civil Service to greater transparency in fiscal matters. To that end the Open Data Team have been working with colleagues from the Department of Finance and AccountNI ...
OpenDataNI Innovation and Outreach Fund 2021-2022 launch December 7, 2021
OpenDataNI has just recently celebrated its 6th birthday, and in that time a lot has happened in open data here in Northern Ireland. From a starting point of 50 datasets or so, we have grown to now have 711 datasets available, with more and more ...
Open Government Network - Open Local Government Workshops Juli 16, 2021
The Open Government Network NI are running a series of virtual workshops to help identify open government issues important to citizens and to ultimately improve local democracy and public services. The workshop dates are: 17th Aug: South-West area - ...
OpenDataNI Innovation & Outreach Fund 2021 - Winners announced! Maj 7, 2021
Launched in December past, this year's OpenDataNI Innovation & Outreach Fund attracted a fine selection of applications, seeking to gain funding for projects and events focused on Open Data across Northern Ireland. With a total available pot of ...
OpenDataNI Innovation & Outreach Fund 2021 - the tension builds.... April 2, 2021
Following on from the success of last year's Innovation and Outreach Fund, keen OpenDataNI-watchers will know that the Fund was launched in December with entries closing on 4th March. Just as with last year's version, the Fund seeks to make awards ...
Belfast City Council seeking innovative solutions to COVID-19 response April 28, 2020
Belfast City Council is working with government, our universities, and the community & voluntary sectors to support a coordinated contribution by the digital innovator community to solving local Covid-19 challenges. They want to match the digital ...
Coronavirus and open data April 16, 2020
The demand for access to data to aid public understanding of governmental responses to the coronavirus pandemic has been notable across the world. The Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore have ...
OpenDataNI Innovation & Outreach Fund 2020 - And the winners are..... Mars 4, 2020
A key strand of the Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland 2020-2023, the OpenDataNI Innovation and Outreach Fund aims to promote NI government Open Data re-use, stimulate innovation with data, and broaden skills and competence in working with Open ...
OpenDataNI Innovation & Outreach Fund 2020 - One month until the closing date! Januari 7, 2020
Keen OpenDataNI-watchers will already be aware that one of the key strands of the Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland 2020-2023 is the creation of a new Innovation & Outreach Fund. This initative aims to provide funding to applicants who are: ...
Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland 2020 - 2023 Oktober 14, 2019
Regular visitors to OpenDataNI (and our many followers on Twitter, too) will already have known that the new Open Data Strategy was on its way..... and now it has arrived! Launched today by Department of Finance Permanent Secretary, Sue Gray, the ...
Open Data Strategy Launch event Monday 14th October September 13, 2019
Open Data advocates in Northern Ireland will by now know that we have been working hard in recent months to refresh the Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland. To inform the direction of the new Strategy, the Open Data Team ran an online ...
Open Data Strategy 2020-2023 Launch Augusti 9, 2019
The review process for the second Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland is almost complete. The Open Data Team are gearing up for a launch event to be held this autumn. Please consider this as a heads up! If you are an open government advocate, a ...
Open Data Within The Wider Data Landscape Augusti 8, 2019
As finishing touches are being applied to our new Open Data Strategy for Northern Ireland, this work comes at a time when developments in information management and data, in both a national and international context, are of increasing importance as ...
Strategy Review Update! Mars 21, 2019
The first Open Data Strategy was intended to run from 2015 to 2018, and whilst much of what was in the Strategy has been delivered, (including establishment of this very OpenDataNI portal), many of the goals and aspirations we had then have been ...
OpenDataNI Make-it Challenge Winners - The Grand Unveiling! Maj 11, 2018
Another year of promoting the benefits of open data in Northern Ireland has come and gone, and with it, another OpenDataNI Challenge has reached a crescendo. Last year, we Challenged the developer community to create a teaching resource for our ...
Northern Ireland developing into a hotbed of ‘Open Data’ December 12, 2017
From tiny acorns, mighty oaks grow, …. well, that’s very much the aim! Open Data can bring a great many benefits such as accountability, efficiency, enhanced research, and commercial opportunity; albeit it can take time to realise the benefits. Here ...
Reflections on Open Data Camp november 6, 2017
Over the weekend of 21st – 22nd October, the UK Open Data Camp bandwagon rolled into town and ‘pitch’ed up at Queen’s University Belfast’s Computer Science Building. Open Data Camp is run by a group of extremely enthusiastic volunteers from both the ...
Open Data Make-It Challenge!!! Oktober 2, 2017
Following on from the success of our last Challenge competition (‘Using Open Data for Education’ – you can read more about the winners here), we’re now giving students the opportunity to take some of the Open Data on OpenDataNI and get creative ...
Open Data Camp is coming to Belfast! Augusti 3, 2017
The fifth UK Open Data Camp is to be held in Belfast on the weekend of 21st and 22nd October 2017 at Queen’s University Belfast, in the Computer Science building. QUB Computer Science Building This is hugely exciting news for everyone interested in ...