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08 08 .14

Putting Crowdsourcing In Action

Blog Post By Mark Illife Crowdsourcing is increasing in popularity as a form of distributed problem solving enabled by digital technologies. “The crowd” is invited to contribute towards projects, this […]

03 07 .14

Controversy around Ethics of Facebook’s Study is Missing the Real Issue

Blog post by Dr Murray Goulden – Horizon Research Fellow Facebook came in for considerable criticism recently when they revealed that, over a one week period in 2012, they conducted […]

06 06 .14

The relationship, stupid! Adapting the service relationship for today’s citizens

Authored by Jesse Blum – Research Fellow There has been recent emphasis on complaint handling in public affairs, but the issue tracking model of open software might be a better […]

24 02 .14

Open Data Round Up: 24/02/14

Welcome back to my round-up of the most interesting recent stories from the world of open data: The Open Data Institute has announced further expansion of it’s international network, signing […]

31 01 .14

Open Data Round Up: 31/01/14

A belated Happy New Year from everyone at Horizon! Here’s a round up of some of the most interesting open data stories from January 2014: Nesta’s recent report “Which Doctors […]