Happy 9th Birthday to the Open Knowledge Foundation!
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Open Knowledge: much more than open data
We’ve often used “open knowledge” simply as a broad term to cover any kind of open data or content from statistics to sonnets, and more. However, there is another deeper,…
Opening up the wisdom of crowds for science
We are excited to announce the official launch of Crowdcrafting.org, an open source software platform – powered by our Pybossa technology – for developing and sharing projects that rely on…
Announcing the Open Knowledge Conference 2013: Open Data – Broad, Deep, Connected
The Open Knowledge Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2013 Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) will take place in Geneva, Switzerland on 17th -18th September. The theme of this year’s…
Releasing the Automated Game Play Datasets
This blog post is cross-posted from the Open Economics Blog. We are very happy to announce that the Open Economics Working Group is releasing the datasets of the research…
The Open Data Census – Tracking the State of Open Data Around the World
Recent years have seen a huge expansion in open data activity around the world. This is very welcome, but at the same time it is now increasingly difficult to assess…
Open Research Data Handbook Sprint
On February 15-16 we are updating the Open Research Data Handbook to include more detail on sharing research data from scientific work, and to remix the book for different disciplines…
First Open Economics International Workshop Recap
The first Open Economics International Workshop gathered 40 academic economists, data publishers and funders of economics research, researchers and practitioners to a two-day event at Emmanuel College in Cambridge, UK.…
Help Us to Cultivate the Digital Commons!
At the Open Knowledge Foundation we work to cultivate a global commons of digital material that everyone is free to use and enjoy. This digital commons includes everything from open…
The Year in Review: Top Stories from 2012
So it came and it went, and we seem to all have survived the End of the World. It’s been a big year, so as we bid it farewell and…