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Open Data Institute Summit 2014.  Image Courtesty CCBYSA.  Photographer: Paul Clarke

07/04/2015

Open Data Challenge

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The Open data challenge that aims to radically improve our cultural lives

The Open data challenge that aims to radically improve our cultural lives. Plus, how to combat cybercrime, and how GPS can help dementia sufferers be safe.

‘Our Heritage and Culture: How open data can help us engage’ is the challenge of a new competition that aims to use open data to better our cultural lives. The competition is a joint venture between NESTA and the Open Data Initiative. Click hears from the three finalists about why their project would be a worthy winner of the £50,000 prize. 

Marc Goodman is a former policeman, now cybercrime expert and author of Future Crime, a book that reveals the massive growth of cybercrime and his investigations (with organisations such as Interpol) to track down some of the criminals. Goodman joins Click to outline what more individuals, software designers and governments can do to help combat cybercrime.

The Locator Device Project aims to use GPS to help keep safe people with dementia. Click hears from a dementia sufferer, her husband and researchers from Alberta, Canada who are carrying out a trial with GPS systems to keep track of people with dementia who may go off wandering and put themselves in danger.

(Image: Open Data Institute Summit 2014. Courtesty CCBYSA. Photographer: Paul Clarke)

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