Month: February 2014

Posted byby Zara Rahman
February 24, 2014

World Humanitarian Data and Trends, 2013- report review

The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) recently released a new report, “World Humanitarian Data and Trends 2013”. The report highlights the limits of the data included…

Posted byby OKFN
February 21, 2014

Gauging the needs and challenges of the global open data community

This is a guest blog post by Julia Keserü, International Policy Manager at the Sunlight Foundation, which partners alongside ao. the Open Knowledge Foundation in the Global Open Data Initiative.…

Posted byby Christian Villum
February 21, 2014

Open Data Day – what’s happening around the Open Knowledge Foundation global network

With Open Data Day just around the corner – tomorrow, Saturday February 22, 2014, where over 100 events around the world will take place – it’s time to zoom out…

Posted byby Rahul Ghosh
February 20, 2014

Enter the Partnership for Open Data’s Impact Stories Competition!

We want to know how opening up data impact those in developing countries. The Partnership for Open Data (POD) is a partnership of institutions to research, support, train and promote…

Posted byby Mushon Zer-Aviv
February 20, 2014

Disinformation Visualization: How to lie with datavis

This guest post was originally published on Tactical Tech‘s new blog for Visualising Information for Advocacy. Visit the Visualising Information for Advocacy site for more—and check out the new book…

Posted byby Beatrice Martini
February 20, 2014

Announcing the narrative streams at this year’s OKFestival and the call for session proposals

Now that the OKFestival website is live and tickets are on sale, we can share more details about the narrative streams that will run through the event. We’re also pleased…

Posted byby Marco Menchinella
February 19, 2014

Data Roundup, 19 February

Tools, Events, Courses Every data addict knows that each file containing numbers in rows and columns must be filtered and cleaned first. The Data Cleanser help you doing it by…

Posted byby Rahul Ghosh
February 19, 2014

Enter the Open Data Impact Stories Competition

This guest post by Rahul Ghosh was originally published on the ODI blog. How has Open Data impacted you and your community? Over the last decade, Open Data initiatives have…

Posted byby Beatrice Martini
February 19, 2014

The Open Knowledge Festival 2014 website is now live!

We know you’re as excited as we are about this year’s Open Knowledge Festival, which will be taking place in Berlin from 15th – 17th July. Today, we’re pleased to…

Posted byby Theodora Middleton
February 18, 2014

Brazil becomes the Open Knowledge Foundation’s first Full Chapter in Latin America

We’re delighted to announce that the Open Knowledge Foundation Brazil has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to become a, full, official Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation. You can read…

Open Technology Research Officially Launches to Strengthen Global Research Community

The Road to a Press Freedom AI Commons

Open Knowledge Foundation Priorities for the 2025 OGP

Travis Gerke: ‘Academia is still very supportive of the singular hero scientist. But most things take teams’

Andrés Vázquez: ‘90% of technological problems can be solved with tools that have been around for decades’

Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’

Our Network Contribution to Shape the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy

School of Data Returns: Scaling Digital Literacy Through Trainer Multipliers

Presentation & Expert Roundtable: ‘From Software to Society — Openness in a Changing World’