Network Front | The Guardian: EU commits 14.4m to support open data across Europe

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EU commits 14.4m to support open data across Europe

Nov 4th 2014, 16:51, by Samuel Gibbs

New funding for startups, research and academy hopes to fuel open-data skills and adoption through the Open Data Institute co-founded by Tim Berners-Lee

The European Union has committed 14.4m (£11m) towards open data with projects and institutions lead by the Open Data Institute (ODI), Southampton University, the Open University and Telefonica.

The funding, announced today at the ODI Summit being held in London, is the largest direct investment into open data startups globally and will be used to fund three separate schemes covering startups, open data research and a new training academy for data science.

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Network Front | The Guardian: EU commits 14.4m to support open data across Europe

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