For the last year, the Civic Media Observatory (CMO) has developed a research project to understand and analyze the discourse on data used for governance, control, and policy in El Salvador, Brazil, ...

It is entertaining to be in a room filled with people all claiming that they love data. What becomes more entertaining is discovering how each one views data uniquely and enjoys doing different things ...

Despite a lack of consensus on what open data means, organizations and open source projects are tackling it as we move into the future of computing. If “open source” was the rallying cry of the past ...

The conversation around big tech collecting consumer data is becoming increasingly prominent. Whether that be from added news coverage, documentaries or new laws being enacted, it feels like ...

What does “DATA” mean to you? For many, it’s the mundane and largely irrelevant by-product of day-to-day business operations; for others, it is a responsibility and burden which is time-consuming, ...

Uptime is a critical metric for any data center, often quoted as "99.9999% uptime." However, most operators typically refer to this percentage as the availability of equipment rather than its actual ...