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Open Data portal nominated for an eGovernment Award

May 16, 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

April 28, 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…….

April 11, 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

April 4, 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

February 20, 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

February 20, 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

February 16, 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

February 14, 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

February 8, 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

February 7, 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

December 20, 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 .......................

December 12, 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

November 17, 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

November 8, 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

November 7, 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!

October 21, 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 ...

Launch of Open Data Engagement fund - blog by Emer Coleman, Chair of the Open Data Governance Board

October 12, 2016

As Chair of the Open Data Governance Board I am delighted to see the launch of the Open Governance Engagement Fund which was developed by the Board in conjunction with the Open Data Unit in the Department of Public Expenditure & Reform. This is a ...

Note of the ODGB meeting 5 September 2016

September 26, 2016

Note of Open Data Governance Board MeetingMonday, 5th September, 2016 Attendance: Emer Coleman (Chair) Dennis Jennings, Denis Parfenov, Sandra Collins, Cronan McNamara, Barry Lowry, Andrew O’Sullivan, Daithí Mac Síthigh, Apologies: Ashling ...

Note of the ODGB 12 July 2016

August 4, 2016

Open Data Governance Board Meeting Tuesday 12th July 2016 Attendance: Minister Eoghan Murphy, Emer Coleman (Chair) Dennis Jennings, Ashling Cunningham, Denis Parfenov, Sandra Collins, Cronan McNamara, Barry Lowry, Dietrich Rebholz By Phone: Daithí ...

ODGB meets with Minister Eoghan Murphy, T.D. - Blog by Dennis Jennings, Member of the ODGB

July 14, 2016

The fifth meeting of the Open Data Governance Board took place on Tuesday (12th July) in Dublin.Since the Board was established, the chair, Emer Coleman, has written about the progress achieved in increasing the number of datasets available through ...

First Anniversary of the relaunch of data.gov.ie - Blog by Emer Coleman, Chair of the Open Data Governance Board

June 30, 2016

A year has passed since the re-launch of Ireland’s Open Data portal, https://data.gov.ie, on 30th June 2015; and those 12 months have seen significant developments for Open Data in Ireland.I am privileged to chair the Open Data Governance Board since ...

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