The Public Domain Review brings out its first book
Open Knowledge project The Public Domain Review is very proud to announce the launch of it's very first book: a selection of weird and wonderful essays from the project's first three years.
The heartbeat of budget transparency
Every two years the International Budget Partnership (IBP) runs a survey, called the Open Budget Survey, to evaluate formal oversight of budgets, how transparent governments are about their budgets and…
An unprecedented Public-Commons partnership for the French National Address Database
This is a guest post, originally published in French on the Open Knowledge Foundation France blog Nowadays, being able to place an address on a map is an essential information.…
Global Witness and Open Knowledge – Working together to investigate and campaign against corruption related to the extractives industries
Sam Leon, one of Open Knowledge’s data experts, talks about his experiences working as an School of Data Embedded Fellow at Global Witness. Global Witness are a Nobel Peace Prize…
The Role of Open Data in Choosing Neighborhood
To what extent is it important to get familiar with our environment? If we think about how the world surrounding us has changed throughout the years, it is not so…
Global Witness and Open Knowledge – Working together to investigate and campaign against corruption related to the extractives industries
Sam Leon, one of Open Knowledge’s data experts, talks about his experiences working as an School of Data Embedded Fellow at Global Witness. Global Witness are a Nobel Peace Prize…
Get better feedback from your data training events!
“What do we require to evaluate our programs? How do we show that our program is making a difference? Why is getting feedback important for data trainers? How can we…
Launching of the Indonesia Data Portal
Exciting news comes from the developing country that is Indonesia: a new data portal! As one of countries with the biggest populations in the world, as well as one…
France Prefers to Pay (twice) for Papers by Its Researchers
France may not have any money left for its universities but it does have money for academic publishers. While university presidents learn that their funding is to be reduced by…
Seeking new Executive Director at Open Knowledge
Today we are delighted to put out our formal announcement for a new Executive Director. In our announcement about changes in leadership in September we had already indicated we would…