Guardian

Business type

Crowdsource

Service/product description

The Guardian created an open platform, which is a suite of services that makes it possible to build applications with the Guardian. They have opened up their platform to give access to our journalism, their brand, and the technologies that power guardian.co.uk. The first two services they’ve released as part of the platform are the Content API and the Data Store. The Content API is a service that allows partners to select and collect content from the Guardia. Users can create applications that use Guardian’s content and share it with others on any platform. The Data Store is a directory of useful data curated by Guardian journalists.

What does 'openness' mean in this case?

Not ony do they give away their content for free, but they also let users use the content to build appliations around to e.g. analyse/research their data. They openned up their content for others to use. The Guardian is not involved in selecting or checking any application, which makes it a more open service than some other crowdsourcing platforms.