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Open Referral develops data standards and open source tools that make it easier to share, find and use information about health, human, and social services.

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Not another directory of services! Adopting Open Referral in the UK

Not another directory of services! Adopting Open Referral in the UK

Today we welcome to the blog Mike Thacker of Porism Limited. Porism is a technical partner of the Local Government ...
Sunlight Foundation on local governments and the opening of social service data

Sunlight Foundation on local governments and the opening of social service data

This post has been co-authored with Becca Warner of the Sunlight Foundation’s Open Cities program, and adapted from the original ...
Link2Feed.com

Link2Feed leveraging Open Referral to provide resource directory information to food pantries

This post is by Emily Branton, President of Link2Feed. Welcome, Emily! Link2Feed believes that food pantries don’t just play a ...
Pathways Toward Data Interoperability Report

New research finds urgent needs for interoperability across health, human, and social service sectors

It often doesn’t matter how clever or well-designed a new technology is – if it can’t easily work with other ...