New Visualisations for OpenSpending
This post is by Gregor Aisch, graphic designer and visualisation architect on the OpenSpending project. Today, at the OpenSpending worksop at OKCon2011 he gave a sneak preview of some of…
OpenSpending goes live
After several months of hard work, we are glad to announce the official launch of OpenSpending and turn to everyone interested in government accountability and financial transparency to help shape…
Opening up Government: Data.gov.uk publishes UK all central government spending data over 25k.
This post is by Friedrich Lindenberg, one of the core developers on the OpenSpending project. He describes some of the hurdles that had to be overcome to get to today’s…
Open design communities, entrepreneurial coalitions, and the partner state
This guest post is from Michel Bauwens, founder of the Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives. Michel will be joining us at OKCon 2011 for his talk No Open Society…
OKF: T-Shirt Competition
This post comes from Lucy Chambers: Community Coordinator at the OKF. This week, she will be collecting designs for OKF T-Shirts We are in the process of creating some new…
Hacking for Transparency at Brazil’s Major e-Government Conference
The following guest post is from Daniela B. Silva and Diego Casaes from the Transparency Hacker Community in Brazil. CONSEGI, an open source software and e-Government conference organized by (and…
Hack4Europe!
The following post is from Europeana, cross posted from the Europeana blog. What are the benÂeÂfits of makÂing culÂtural herÂitage data open and reusable? How can it supÂport the develÂopÂment…
One week left for early bird tickets for OKCon
There is only one week left to get early bird tickets for OKCon, so please hurry if you want to make use of this offer! Early bird applications will close…
OKCon 2011: Travel Bursaries & Early Bird Tickets Available
OKCon 2011 is now just over one month away. Registration is ongoing at so you can still book your tickets online here. Early bird prices will be available until 1st…
Workshops Preceding OKCon2011
OKCon2011 is glad to announce that registration has now opened for the pre-OKCon workshops. More details can be found below. Pre-OKCon2011 CKAN Workshop Tuesday, June 28, 2011 from 9:30 AM…