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Catherine Stihler to leave Open Knowledge Foundation to lead Creative Commons

July 9, 2020
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Our Chief Executive Catherine Stihler OBE has accepted a new opportunity and will soon be leaving the Open Knowledge Foundation. She goes with our very warmest wishes and we hope…

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OpenSpending stewardship moving to Datopian

July 9, 2020
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OpenSpending is one of the longest running projects both at Open Knowledge Foundation and within the open data ecosystem in its entirety. Starting life in 2009 as Where Does…

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The Open Human Genome, twenty years on

June 26, 2020
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On 26th June 2000, the “working draft” of the human genome sequence was announced to great fanfare. Its availability has gone on to revolutionise biomedical research. But this iconic event,…

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Open Data Day 2020: it’s a wrap!

June 18, 2020
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On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data. Thanks to…

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Lessons learned from organising the first ever virtual csv,conf

June 17, 2020
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This blogpost was collaboratively written by the csv,conf organising team which includes Lilly Winfree and Jo Barratt from the Open Knowledge Foundation. csv,conf is supported by the Sloan Foundation as…

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Harnessing open data for agricultural business opportunities in the DRC: Open Data Day 2020 report

June 15, 2020
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On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open…

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Teaching students to tell stories with budget data in Guatemala: Open Data Day 2020 report

June 15, 2020
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On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open…

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Celebrating open data initiatives in Paraguay: Open Data Day 2020 report

June 15, 2020
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On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open…

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Reflecting on the first cohort of Frictionless Data Reproducible Research fellows

June 9, 2020
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It is truly bittersweet to say that we are at the end of the first cohort of the Frictionless Data Reproducible Research fellows. Over the past nine months, I have…

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Agricultural data for equal development in Nigeria: Open Data Day 2020 report

June 8, 2020
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On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open…