It should not come as a big surprise, but with the success of the “transparent government” movement and open data, everyone is now branding themselves as such. Sadly the majority of investments are taking the same old government approach and repackaging it as “transparent”. Add a few new collateral pieces, a fresh web page, then [...]

In our last post we talked about the portable GeoIQ appliance we sent over to Afghanistan with Todd Huffman. Todd and his team have been busy collecting data and we’ve been pushing it up to GeoCommons and our Afghan election dash board. There has been a steady flow of data, providing [...]

This past spring Andrew ran into Todd Huffman at SXSW – where Todd was telling him about the beer-for-data program at the Taj in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. In short Dave Warner’s Synergy Strike Force had set up shop at the Taj where they installed a satellite up-link and wifi. The real bonus, though, [...]