Aprovechando la celebración en Madrid de la Conferencia Internacional sobre Datos Abiertos, el secretario de Estado de Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información, Víctor Calvo Sotelo, aseguraba esta semana que el sector del open data ya genera en España 1.700 millones de euros y ha creado 13.000 empleos.
Should drug companies publicly release all data from the tests they conduct on human volunteers? A growing number of parties say yes, and last week, a group of academics unveiled a scorecard to spotlight companies that have recently kept their clinical data hidden from public view—and those that have made the data available.
As with all shorthand systems that boil down complicated scenarios, the clinical trial scorecard, developed at New York University, Harvard University, and Yale University, requires explanation.
Socrata, a startup working to make government data more easily accessible to companies and services, has raised $30 million in new funding.
Socrata has raised at least $30 million out of possible $35 million it’s seeking to close, according to a filing it submitted today to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing lists Jai Das of Sapphire Ventures as a director.
