Highlights from Open Data Day
This past Saturday was Open Data Day across the world. More than 190 events took place around the globe and many of these were organized by Local Groups of the…
Knowledge Creation to Diffusion: The Conflict in India
This is a guest post by Ranjit Goswami, Dean (Academics) and (Officiating) Director of Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Nagpur, India. Ranjit also volunteers as one of the Indian Country…
Two and a half months researching Open Data in (a part of) Asia
This is the third guest blog post from Open Steps, an initiative by two young Berliners Alex (a software developer from Spain) and Margo (a graduate in European politics from…
Badges are Here! Get yourself some.
Starting today the School of Data supports Open Badges to acknowledge and reward your efforts to use data effectively. Get them for learning, participating and special achievements and show what…
Stop Secret Contracts: new global campaign launched
Today we at the Open Knowledge Foundation are launching a new global campaign, Stop Secret Contracts. Secret contracting leads to fraud, corruption, and unaccountability. It means the loss of millions…
Data Roundup, 25 February
Tools, Events, Courses Just in case you’ve not yet come across it – you still have a couple of weeks left to participate to the 2015 Data Journalism Awards. The…
Open Knowledge Foundation Spain becomes an official Chapter
We are really pleased to announce that Spain has become the latest Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Last night, during the inaugural I OKFN awards, organised by Open Knowledge…
Open Data 1-day training on 28 March
The Open Knowledge Foundation will be re-running its one-day Introduction to Open Data on Friday 28 March. Local governments and other organisations are looking at how they can release data…
Building an archaeological project repository I: Open Science means Open Data
This is a guest post by Anthony Beck, Honorary fellow, and Dave Harrison, Research fellow, at the University of Leeds School of Computing. In 2010 we authored a series of…
Help us alpha test the School of Data
Exciting times are ahead at the School of Data. Currently we’re working hard behind the scenes to implement Open Badges. Badges will allow you to show (informally) what you’ve learned…