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School of Data

School of Data is OKFN’s global network to advance data literacy in civil society. Learn more at schoolofdata.org.

Posted byby Meg Foulkes
December 9, 2015

Second #OpenDataParty Comes to Benin City, Nigeria

“– bring your laptops, coffee mugs and power extension cords!” On December 11th, the second #OpenDataParty kicks off at Benson Idahosa University, Benin City. During two action-packed days, #OpenDataParty…

Posted byby Marco Túlio Pires
December 3, 2015

Heads up for the first data journalism agency in Macedonia!

Data journalism in Macedonia just got a lot stronger: a group of journalists and programmers started what could become the first data-journalism agency in the country. The group was part…

Posted byby Sheena Carmel Opulencia-Calub
November 13, 2015

Course outline: mobile data collection with ODK

##Introduction Decades ago, the use of papers and pen was a painstaking and very expensive effort to collect data. Most of us have experienced paper forms getting wet or damaged,…

Posted byby Lucy Chambers
November 10, 2015

Happy Birthday, Data Expeditions! Some reflections.

10th November marks the 3 year anniversary of the very first data expedition. What have we learned in the last 3 years? Anyone who followed School of Data closely in…

Posted byby OKFN
November 9, 2015

Join the School of Data team: Technical Trainer wanted

Background The mission of Open Knowledge International is to open up all essential public interest information and see it utilized to create insight that drives change. To this end we…

Posted byby Nkechi Okwuone
November 6, 2015

Making open data accessible to data science beginners

If you’re reading this, I suspect you’re already familiar with open data, data science and what it entails. But if that’s not the case, fret not, here are a few…

Posted byby Camila Salazar
November 2, 2015

School of Data is part of the 19 million project!

How can a diverse team of people, with different backgrounds from around the world, work together to find new ways to tell the story of hundreds of thousands of refugees…

Posted byby Mariel García
October 27, 2015

Data literacy research: update and OGP sessions

Announcement: We will be presenting the preliminary findings of our data literacy research at the OGP convening in Mexico City. We are leading a knowledge café session on this topic…

Posted byby Camila Salazar
October 22, 2015

The Latin America open data community speaks loud

Last September the open data community in Latin America gathered in Santiago de Chile in the two most important events in the region to talk and discuss about open data.…

Posted byby David Selassie Opoku
October 20, 2015

The State of Open Data in Ghana: Policy

I joined the School of Data in April as one of the fellows for 2015. As a data scientist and software developer who had moved back to Accra in…

Open Technology Research Officially Launches to Strengthen Global Research Community

The Road to a Press Freedom AI Commons

Open Knowledge Foundation Priorities for the 2025 OGP

Travis Gerke: ‘Academia is still very supportive of the singular hero scientist. But most things take teams’

Andrés Vázquez: ‘90% of technological problems can be solved with tools that have been around for decades’

Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’

Our Network Contribution to Shape the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy

School of Data Returns: Scaling Digital Literacy Through Trainer Multipliers

Presentation & Expert Roundtable: ‘From Software to Society — Openness in a Changing World’