Amendments Liberated: new features for Parltrack
The following guest post is by Stef. The European Parliament is one of the most notoriously impenetrable institutions that governs our lives. Shining a light into the murky corridors of…
Open Data, Technology and Government 2.0 – What Should We, And Should We Not Expect
This is second of two pieces about “managing expectations” (the first is here). Open data has come a long way in the last few years and so have expectations. There’s…
New Members of the Open Knowledge Foundation Board: Jane Silber and Gavin Starks
We’re delighted two new members to the Open Knowledge Foundation Board: Jane Silber and Gavin Starks. Jane is currently CEO of Canonical the company behind Ubuntu, while Gavin is Founder…
Update to Open Knowledge Foundation Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
We’re posting this announce to let people know we’ve updated the Open Knowledge Foundation’s general privacy policy and terms of use. Updates to the privacy policy are fairly limited and…
Managing Expectations
We’re big on promoting open information: be that sonnets, statistics, genes or geodata. We’re big on it because we think it has the potential to improve the welfare of peoples…
Data Protocols: community-based, light-weight data protocols for collaborative, distributed work with data
We’re pleased to announce Data Protocols, a community-driven effort to develop simple, light-weight protocols and formats for distributed and collaborative work with data. If you’re interested in the project got…
Data Wrangling Handbook Sprints: July 18th in Portland! July 19th everywhere!
We’re taking the Data Wrangling Handbook on the road! We’ll be in Portland, Oregon this Wednesday, July 18th from 3-7 pm at Collective Agency, 322 NW Sixth Ave (between Everett…
Announcing Recline.JS: a Javascript library for building data applications in the browser
Today we’re pleased to announce the first public release of Recline.JS, a simple but powerful open-source library for building data applications in pure Javascript. For those of you who want…
5m Intro to OpenSpending at Activate 2012
Last week I gave a quick introduction to OpenSpending and Where Does My Money Go at Activate 2012. Here are the video and slides. Slides
UK Government Releases Open Data White Paper and new Data.Gov.UK
Today, the UK govenrment made a major announcement regarding Open Data and released a revamped Data.Gov.UK — its flagship open data site. Open Data White Paper The Cabinet Office is…