Responsible Data Forum 2014 – the kick-off
Last Thursday saw the first event in the Responsible Data forum, co-organised by Aspiration Tech together with the engine room, held in Oakland, CA. The Responsible Data Forum is, in…
World Humanitarian Data and Trends, 2013- report review
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) recently released a new report, “World Humanitarian Data and Trends 2013”. The report highlights the limits of the data included…
Visualising IATI tools for beginners
This is a guest post by Josje Spierings. Josje is Project Coordinator at Akvo and works on Events and Communications for Open for Change. The post first appeared on Open…
Introducing the Open Development Toolkit!
We’re excited to announce the launch of a brand new project from School of Data together with Development Initiatives, the Open Development Toolkit! The toolkit will act as a hub…
The Open Knowledge Foundation Community Stories Tumblr: a new way of sharing your stories
The Open Knowledge Foundation international community has grown tremendously over the past decade. Since 2004 people have come together in over 46 countries (and growing!) to do amazing things with…
Data Expedition at Open Development Camp
Our challenge: give Open Development a reality check at Open for Change’s Open Development Camp in Amsterdam. This challenge was well and truly accepted by participants of the Open Development…
Get ready for the OKCon workshops!
Lovely attendees of OKCon, it’s time to make plans for the workshops you want to attend! Each workshop session now has detailed information about moderators and speakers, topics that will…
Meeting the Latin American open knowledge community
Over the past couple of weeks, our resident Data Diva Michael Bauer, and International Community Manager Zara Rahman have been in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. Their mission was twofold; raise…
School of Data in Santiago: An awesome greeting from HacksHackers
Last night, Michael Bauer carried out a School of Data workshop in Santiago, Chile, kindly organised by the HacksHackers Santiago network. The workshop, based around Money, Politics and Education, attracted…
re:publica roundup
Last week, the Open Knowledge community was out in force at Berlin’s re:publica conference, which brought together over 6,000 bloggers, internet activists, innovators and makers to meet in person, for…