Tag: open data

• Backing up Spotify – Anna’s Blog

  December 21, 2025

  We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily… more ›

• We need global coordination on data, not just AI. Here’s why

  November 19, 2024

  World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/06/need-global-coordination-on-data-not-just-ai/ more ›

• Building a Data Wealth Fund

  November 19, 2024

  Ali, Vinous, Carly Munnelly and Rachel Wolf. 2023. Changing the Conversation: Canada’s Model for 21st Century Data Governance. Long Eaton, UK: Public First & Innovate Cities. Birch, Kean 2023. Data… more ›

• The Role of Governance in Unleashing the Value of Data

  November 19, 2024

  Digital Public Infrastructure: Orientation Matters Soujanya Sridharan Vinay Narayan Jack Hardinges https://www.cigionline.org/the-role-of-governance-in-unleashing-the-value-of-data/ more ›

• Talking Digital Colonialism with Morehshin Allahyari

  August 20, 2019

  In her new performance lecture title “Physical Tactics for Digital Colonialism,” Allahyari explores what it means for data to be colonized. https://hyperallergic.com/504461/talking-digital-colonialism-with-morehshin-allahyari/ more ›

• Data Ethics is important

  June 2, 2019

  The May issue of Admap puts the spotlight on data ethics. According to the Open Data Institute, data ethics is “a branch of ethics that evaluates data practices with the… more ›

• What comes after open source?

  February 11, 2019

  This post explores the differences between software tools and services; how the stateful nature of software services led them to be closed; and posits how crypto networks can catalyze a… more ›

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar

  January 3, 2019

  Linux is subversive. Who would have thought even five years ago (1991) that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand… more ›

• TensorFlow and Monetizing Intellectual Property

  December 1, 2016

  TensorFlow and Monetizing Intellectual Property » Ten years ago Bill Gates suggested that open source software was the province of “modern-day sort of communists” whose views on intellectual property were… more ›