OKFN India Trip – the Roundup
This is the final post in the Open Data in India series. Our visit to India wasn’t just about meetups… the following post deals with the individuals and organisations that…
UK Departmental Government Spending – Improving the Quality of Reporting
Continuing in their mission to make spending data more accessible and comprehensible, the Spending Stories team and the team of Data.Gov.Uk are releasing a reporting tool today that will help…
Open Data – Chennai
This is part 2 of 5 of the Open Data India Series. You can read the first post ‘Open Data – Bangalore’ on the OKFN blog. Chennai, formerly Madras, is…
Open Data – Bangalore
Laura and Lucy from the OKFN team recently travelled to India to learn where the challenges and opportunities for open data in India lay. This is part 1 of 5…
Technology for Transparent and Accountable Public Finance: Report Published
In early March, we embarked on a project to map out projects which use technology to further the aims of fiscal transparency, accountability and participation. Today, we are happy to…
The Data Journalism Handbook is Go!
On Saturday 29th April, at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia – 6 months of work on the Data Journalism Handbook was unveiled: the Data Journalism Handbook was launched. The…
The School of Data Journalism is coming soon!
This article is cross posted on DataDrivenJournalism.net </p> The School of Data Journalism is a series of panel discussions and workshops on various aspects of data journalism organised by the…
Technology for Fiscal Transparency – Where Next?
Who is using technology to follow the money? The hunt is on… Over the last month, we have been working on a report entitled “Technology for Transparent and Accountable Public…
How Spending Stories Fact Checks Big Brother, the Wiretappers’ Ball
This piece was co-written with Eric King of Privacy International and comes as Privacy International launches a huge new data release about companies selling surveillance technologies. It is cross-posted on…
The Data Journalism Handbook: Final call for contributions
This post is by Liliana Bounegru, Project Coordinator at the European Journalism Centre, and Lucy Chambers, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation. It is cross posted on DataDrivenJournalism.net Where…