Call for global accord on open data in ‘big data world’

Four major international science organisations have called at a meeting in South Africa for global endorsement of an accord to help assure open access to volumes of "big data" that increasingly are the basis of research and policymaking. The four science organisations behind the "Open Data in a Big Data World" campaign are the International Council of Science (ICSU)‚ the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP)‚ the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and The World Academy of Sciences for the adv...