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Posted byby Open Knowledge Brazil
July 19, 2017

Brazil’s Information Access Law and the problem of ‘un-anonymous’ request for public information

It is critical to build mechanisms that allow and promote the exercise of right to information access in a way that is safe to Information Access Law users. In this…

Posted byby Poli GNU
April 21, 2017

Gender inequality on focus in São Paulo Open Data Day

This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2017. On Saturday 4 March, groups from around the world organised over 300 events to celebrate,…

Posted byby Mor Rubinstein
August 22, 2016

Open Knowledge Brazil summer 2016 update

This blog post is part of our summer chapters updates and was written by the team of OK Brazil. Brazil is not only about the Olympics. A lot has been going…

Posted byby daniel
August 8, 2016

Reflections from the field #1: It’s not enough to do great work. Talk about it

A lot of projects using data are making a great impact. We just don’t notice them because people don’t tend to advocate about their work During #CodaBR, the first ever…

Posted byby Christian Villum
August 22, 2013

Visualizing How the Brazilian Government Underspends on the Public Good

This post is authored by Vitor Batista, who works as developer for the Open Knowledge Foundation, and Neil Ashton, Data Roundup Editor for the School of Data blog. It is…

Posted byby Lucy Chambers
May 31, 2011

Hacking for Transparency at Brazil’s Major e-Government Conference

The following guest post is from Daniela B. Silva and Diego Casaes from the Transparency Hacker Community in Brazil. CONSEGI, an open source software and e-Government conference organized by (and…

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