Open Educational Resources (OER)

What is open data?

"Open data is data that can be freely used, re-used and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike."

The Open Knowledge Foundation also identifies universal participation as a key feature of open data, meaning: "everyone must be able to use, reuse and redistribute – there should be no discrimination against fields of endeavor or against persons or groups. For example, ‘non-commercial’ restrictions that would prevent ‘commercial’ use, or restrictions of use for certain purposes (e.g. only in education), are not allowed."

Open Data Sites

OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a free, editable, and downloadable map of the world. Users can update geographic information or download large sets of data.
Data.gov (United States)
The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
World Bank Open Data
Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe. Data on a wide range of topics including education, climate change, environmental information, economics, health, gender equity, and agriculture.
Tableau-Public
Tableau Public is a free service that lets anyone publish interactive data to the web. Once on the web, anyone can interact with the data, download it, or create their own visualizations of it.

The Next Web

20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.