Saturday 23rd February is Open Data Day 2013! Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments.
The events are open to anyone: from curious citizens to journalists, tech-geeks to scientists, designers to data wranglers. Swing by on the day to hack, have a hangout and wrangle with us!
At the Open Knowledge Foundation we’ve been involved in Open Data Days since they started two years ago and this year will be no exception (we are also proud to be able to contribute to making Open Data Day happen by hosting the mailing list and website).
Around the World
There are Open Data Day events taking place all around the world.
We’re especially excited to see several members of the Open Knowledge Foundation network are organizing events – including ones in Vienna, London, Berlin and more – further details below!
London
We’ll be organizing an Open Data Day event in London. For full details, including information about sign up form and location, please go to our Open Data Day 2013 – London page.
Among other things we’ll be looking at PyBossa & the Crowdcrafting platform for creating citizen science apps, data wrangling some Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) open data, the Open Research Data Handbook, and the Open Data Census (see below).
We’ll end the day with a live link-up to Creative Commons, San Francisco to join with their Open Data Day activities.
Berlin
Open Knowledge Foundation Germany are organizing a event focusing on a variety of projects, from the collaborative creation of a list of the 10 Hottest Datasets under the guidance of Michael Kreil from OpenDataCities to a Frag den Staat hackathon run by Stefan Wehrmeyer.
Where: Zeit Online HQ
Signup: Open Data Day 2013 – OKFN Berlin
Open Data Census – join the challenge!
As a part of Open Data Day 2013 we bring you the Open Data Census Challenge. It’s easy, it’s funny – and anyone can play along. The best Open Data Census Detective will be announced to the world on the Open Knowledge Foundation blog!
Want to take part in the Open Data Census Challenge?
Join now!
Get in touch!
Got a question or want to get in touch for any other reason?
Ask on the Open Data Day mailing list
Drop a line to the Open Data Day Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation – Beatrice Martini or tweet to @OKFN with the hashtag #OpenDataDay.
As the Open Knowledge Foundation's Events Manager Beatrice leads the team organising OKFestival 2014 (Berlin, July 15-18 – see you there!). Furthermore, she coordinates other Open Knowledge Foundation events working to expand the organisation’s global network through a variety of in person and online actions and formats.
She's also a core member of OpenTechSchool, a community initiative offering free programming workshops and meetups. Follow her on Twitter @beatricemartini.
The KDZ – Centre for Public Administration Research in cooperation with the Austrian chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation is hosting a hackathon on
big data and poverty (friday, 22nd, in English)
transparency in public finance data (saturday, 23rd, in German).
We will try to implement an openspending installation for Austrian budget data.
http://wiki.opendataday.org/Vienna2013