Open Data Day report #2: All of Europe pushing open data
In our follow-up series about Open Data Day 2015, which tooks place on February 21 across the world, we will now highlight some of the great events that took place…
Open Data Day report #1: Highly inspiring activities across the Asia-Pacific
Following the global Open Data Day 2015 event, which tooks place on February 21 with hundreds of events across the globe, we will do a blog series to highlight some…
New Open Knowledge Local Groups in Macedonia, Pakistan, Portugal and Ukraine
It’s once again time for us to proudly announce the establishment of a new batch of Open Knowledge Local Groups, founded by community leaders in Macedonia, Pakistan, Portugal and Ukraine,…
Announcing the Open Data Day Coalition micro-grantees
Two weeks back a coalition of Open Data Day supporters announced a micro-grant scheme in an open call for groups with good ideas for Open Data Day activities. The response…
Global Community Stories: January 2015
As some might remember, last year we ran a very popular blog post series called Global Community Stories, which highlighted activities in the ever-broadening Local Groups global community. Towards the…
Celebrating Open Access Week by highlighting community projects!
This week is Open Access Week all around the world, and from Open Knowledge’s side we are following up on last year’s tradition by putting together a blog post series…
Streamlining the Local Groups network structure
We are now a little over a year into the Local Groups scheme that was launched in early 2013. Since then we have been receiving hundreds of applications from great…
Support Diego Gomez, Join the Global Open Access Movement
This is a post put together based on great contributions on the blogs of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (Adi Kamdar & Maira Sutton), Creative Commons (Timothy Vollmer) and the Open…
Join our first Regional Community Mentoring and Skill-share Gathering
We are glad to announce our first official Community Mentoring and Skillshare Gathering to be held in Mexico City on October 3, 2014 in connection with the ConDatos and AbraLatam…
25 Countries in the Same Room: The OKFestival Community Summit
Photo by Heather Leson, CC-BY-SA Two weeks back, over 1,000 people gathered in Berlin to co-create the future of the open knowledge movement. Even before OKFestival had officially kicked off,…