Thank you so much for the amazing number of submissions we have received this week.
Entering the final week of the global sprint!
Next week is the FINAL WEEK of the global Index sprint. Please make sure your country is represented in the Global Open Data Index 2014.
Find out how you can contribute here.
If you would like to be reviewer for Global Open Data Index 2014, please sign up here.
We are missing some countries – can you help?
Europe – Armenia, Croatia, Hungary, Ukraine, Slovenia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, Poland
Americas – Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Brazil, USA
Asia/Pacific – South Korea, Taiwan, India, Mongolia, New Zealand, Australia
Africa – Sierra Leone, Mali, Malawi, Mozambique

Join the Global Madness Day: October 30
Take part in a day of activities to make sure we get the most submissions through that we can for the Global Open Data Index 2014. Make sure your country is represented – the October 30 Global Madness Day is the last day in the sprint!
At 2pm GMT Rufus Pollock, the President & Founder of Open Knowledge will be chatting to Mor Rubinstein about the Index in a Google Hangout. Make sure you join the chat here!
Other events will take place throughout the day. See our twitter feed for updates #openindex14
Some practical tips…
Lastly, a couple of reminders on some key questions around the Index from Mor Rubinstein, Community coordinator for the Index:
1. What is machine readable? – This year we added help text for this question. Please read it when making your submissions this year. Frequently contributors categorise HTML format as a machine readable format. While it is easy to scrape HTML, it is actually NOT a machine readable format. Please use our guide if you are in doubt or send an email to the census list.
2. What is Openly Licensed? – Well, most of us are not lawyers, and the majority of us never pay attention to the term and conditions on a website (well, they are super long… so I can’t blame any of you for that). If you are confused, go to the Open definition which gives a one page overview on the subject.
360Giving Data Lab and Learning Manager, ex OKF International Community Coordinator
