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Jonathan Gray

Dr. Jonathan Gray is author of Public Data Cultures and Reader in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London. He is also Cofounder of the Public Data Lab; and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris). More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org.

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
October 31, 2013

UK takes lead on ending company secrecy at Open Government Partnership Summit

We will be updating this post throughout the morning, as further details are announced. For press contact, call +44 (0)1223 422159 or email press@okfn.org. This morning UK Prime Minister David…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
October 30, 2013

The Open Knowledge Foundation’s hopes for the Open Government Partnership

Tomorrow campaigners and officials from over 60 countries will gather in London for the second annual summit of the Open Government Partnership, a voluntary multi-stakeholder initiative dedicated to strengthening the…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
October 30, 2013

‘Follow the Money’ with ONE and the Open Knowledge Foundation at the Open Government Partnership

As the Open Government Partnership summit kicks off, we’re pleased to launch a new website for the emerging ‘Follow the Money’ network, FollowTheMoney.net, supported by ONE and the Open Knowledge…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
October 29, 2013

The role of data in European democracy

Cross-posted from the Digital Agenda for Europe Blog. This week campaigners and officials from over 60 countries around the world are meeting in London for the Open Government Partnership Summit…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
October 29, 2013

New Lobbying Transparency Working Group from the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation

The Open Knowledge Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation are teaming up to convene a new global group on lobbying transparency. We want civil society organisations, journalists and citizens around the…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
October 16, 2013

Boots’ £1 billion pound tax dodge shows we need open data on who really owns companies

Yesterday a group of campaign organisations revealed that Alliance Boots – the British pharmaceutical giant which operates the high street chemists ‘Boots’, and one of the UK’s biggest private companies…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
October 8, 2013

Dear Prime Minister, Please increase the ambition of the UK’s open government commitments

The Open Knowledge Foundation is part of a group of civil society organisations behind an open letter to the UK Prime Minister urging him to increase the ambition of the…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
October 4, 2013

Next Steps on “Follow the Money” – from OKCon to the Open Government Partnership Summit

The following post is from Alan Hudson, Policy Director (Transparency & Accountability) at ONE and Jonathan Gray, Director of Policy and Ideas at the Open Knowledge Foundation. Last month we…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
September 12, 2013

“Follow the Money” with ONE and the Open Knowledge Foundation

The following post is from Alan Hudson, Policy Director (Transparency & Accountability) at ONE and Jonathan Gray, Director of Policy and Ideas at the Open Knowledge Foundation. We want to…

Posted byby Jonathan Gray
September 9, 2013

An Open Letter on the UK’s Proposed Lobbying Bill

The following is an open letter to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister about the UK’s proposed Lobbying Bill, initiated by the Open Knowledge Foundation and signed by organisations…

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