Heather Leson
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Heather Leson

Heather is Community Engagement Director at the Open Knowledge Foundation, based in Toronto. She's passionate about global storytelling, citizen voices, excellent software, crisismapping, collaboration, localization and open everything. Learn more at @heatherleson or textontechs.com

Currency of Change

What is the currency of change? What can coders (consumers) do with IATI data? How can suppliers deliver the data sets? Last week I had the honour of participating in…

    Taking it Global @ OGP

    Activating an Open Data Movement means building beyond the topics of ‘why open data?’ and ‘open data index’. We also need to dig into the ‘how?’ we get there globally.…

      I see “Dead” Data @ Mozfest

      [Cross-posted from TextonTechs (blog) by Heather Leson. Mozilla Festival was held in London UK on October 26 – 27, 2013] We are all teachers of the Open Web. The School…

        Wrapping up OKCon

        900 people, 55 countries, 2 full conference days plus 2 satellite days. OKCon convened our network and community in Geneva, Switzerland – at the largest Open Knowledge event. We share…
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