Next Wednesday 22nd July there will be a virtual meeting for a new Working Group on Open Knowledge in Development:

• http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/development

If you’re interested in open knowledge and international development you’re welcome to come along and join in discussion, which will be about what the new working group should focus on – as well as brainstorming for possible new projects!

Details are as follows:

• When: Wednesday 22nd July at 1800 GMT / 1900 BST / 2000 CEST
• Where: #okfn IRC channel on oftc.net. You can either:
  • Connect through your web browser via Mibbit
  • Connect using a standard IRC client
• Wiki page: http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/development/1

Current working group members include:

• John Bywater, Appropriate Software Foundation
• Karin Christiansen, PublishWhatYouFund
• Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation
• Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt
• Becky Hogge, Open Knowledge Foundation
• Samuel Klein, One Laptop Per Child
• Andrew Lamb, Engineers Without Borders
• Edward Murfitt, Royal College of Art
• Simon Parrish, Aidinfo
• Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation
• Chris Watkins, Appropedia
• Pierre Guillaume Wielezynski, World Food Programme

See also the open knowledge in development mailing list (which we launched last month).

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