Data Expeditions at MozFest
Expeditions into the Data Landscape: the School of Data goes to #MozFest Find out what happened at MozFest – and see the tools and data sets to recreate it yourself!…
Members of the public asked to help tend Feynman’s Flowers
A project at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) is making fantastic use of the Pybossa tool (a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Citizen Cyberscience Centre) in…
US Doctor Data to be “Open Eventually”
Here’s an interesting project using slightly unorthodox means to get data out into the open: crowdfunding the purchase of US healthcare data for subsequent open release. The company behind the…
We are hiring!
We’ve just announced 7 job vacancies at the Foundation. If you’re passionate about open knowledge and want to help us build the tools and communities that will make a difference,…
Open Data Portal for Latin America
Sharing governmental information in open, accessible and structured formats could substantially increase transparency and accountability in public policy design and implementation. Furthermore, it enables broad social engagement in the process.…
The Digital Public Library of America moving forward
A fuller version of this post is available on the Open GLAM blog The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is an ambitious project to build a national digital library…
Open Transport Data Manifesto
Loving this infographic, which explains and launches the Open Transport Data Manifesto: The Manifesto is the product of an ePSI workshop which took place in Helsinki in September in the…
Join the School of Data Expeditions at the Mozilla Festival
The School of Data will go on expedition at this year’s Mozilla Festival. Join us on a quest through the worlds of data wrangling with the sherpas from the School…
Data Bootcamps: Hands on data literacy workshops for the world
As governments around the world start implementing open data initiatives, establishing a critical public able to analyse and contextualise the data released is paramount. To facilitate this the African Media…
Hurricane Sandy and open data
It is not an immediately obvious partnership, and yet open data and crisis response go together incredibly well. As storms have lashed the East coast of the US in recent…