SaveOurAir: An experiment in data-activation
Contemporary cities seem to be in a race to be increasingly ‘smart’ and data-driven. At smart city Expos around the world, visitors are presented with new visual modes of modes…
Sloan Foundation Funds Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research
We are excited to announce that Open Knowledge International has received a grant of $750,000 from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for our project “Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research”. The…
CKANconUS and Code for America Summit: some thoughts about the important questions
It’s been a few weeks after CKANConUS and the seventh Code for America Summit took place in Oakland. As always, it was a great place to meet old friends and…
Introducing Version 1 of the Fiscal Data Package specification
The Fiscal Data Package is a lightweight and user-oriented format for publishing and consuming fiscal data. Fiscal Data Packages are made of simple and universal components, are extremely flexible, can…
Open Data for the Campania Cultural Heritage – an update from the Route-To-PA Hetor pilot
This blog has been reposted from the Hetor blog. Since 2015 Open Knowledge International has been part of the consortium of Route-To-PA, a European innovation project aimed at improving citizen engagement…
Open Budgets Index: A survey by OK Greece on open budgets of public sector bodies in Greece
Within the scope of openbudgets.eu, a project funded by the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme, Open Knowledge Greece (OK Greece) conducted a survey on the availability of open…
Improving your data publishing workflow with the Frictionless Data Field Guide
The Frictionless Data Field Guide provides step-by-step instructions for improving data publishing workflows. The field guide introduces new ways of working informed by the Frictionless Data suite of software that…
What does the history of global trade look like? The collaborative database RICardo opens up trade data to shed light on this question
RICardo (Research on International Commerce) is a project dedicated to trade between nations over a period spanning the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the eve of the Second World…
Open Budget Survey 2017: global comparison of budget transparency comes at a critical time
On 30 January 2018 the International Budget Partnership (IBP) has published the Open Budget Survey 2017 with an interactive Data Explorer developed for the IBP by Open Knowledge International and…
ROUTETOPA Case Study: Hetor Pilot
Since 2015 Open Knowledge International has been part of the consortium of RouteToPA, a European innovation project aimed at improving citizen engagement by enabling meaningful interaction between open data users, open…