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Posted byby Catherine Stihler
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For a fair, free and open future: celebrating 15 years of the Open Knowledge Foundation

May 20, 2019
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Fifteen years ago, the Open Knowledge Foundation was launched in Cambridge by entrepreneur and economist Rufus Pollock. At the time, open data was an entirely new concept. Worldwide internet users…

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Posted byby Lieke Ploeger
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Open Data Day 2019: it’s a wrap!

May 17, 2019
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On Saturday 2nd March 2019, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data. In this blog, we wrap up…

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A growing data community in Paraguay

May 16, 2019
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This report is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2019. On Saturday 2nd March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate,…

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Naturalist Datathon: Bogotá (Datatón Naturalista)

May 15, 2019
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This report is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2019. On Saturday 2nd March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate,…

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Open Data Day: Open Science events in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Costa Rica

May 14, 2019
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This report is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2019. On Saturday 2nd March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate,…

in Advocacy

Posted byby Stephen Abbott Pugh
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Two years on, little action from the EU on public country-by-country reporting

May 13, 2019
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Two years ago, members of the European Parliament voted to force large multinational corporations registered in Europe to reveal how much tax they pay, how many people they employ and…

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Posted byby Oleg Lavrovsky
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Panoptikum: exploring new ways to categorize a collection of various unusual and unique objects

May 9, 2019
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This blog has been reposted from https://blog.datalets.ch/054. For the past two and a half years, the artist Jürg Straumann has been working on a digital retrospective of his life’s work, spanning over…

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Posted byby Lilly Winfree
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Open call: become a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow

May 8, 2019
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The Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellows Programme, supported by the Sloan Foundation, aims to train graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and early career researchers how to become champions for open, reproducible…

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Posted byby Oscar Montiel
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Publishing Budget and Spending Open Data

April 29, 2019
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This blog was written by Lorena Rivero del Paso (GIFT) and Oscar Montiel (Open Knowledge Foundation) and was originally posted on the GIFT blog. Increasingly, we see examples where lack…

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Posted byby Lilly Winfree
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Open Knowledge Foundation community meet up at csv,conf,v4

April 16, 2019
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When: May 7th, 5-7pm Location: Eliot Center, Portland, OR Cost: Free; pizza & beverages available Join Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) for a community event the night before csv,conf,v4! This meet…