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Posted byby RouteToPA
December 19, 2017

ROUTETOPA Case Study: Hetor Pilot

Since 2015 Open Knowledge International has been part of the consortium of RouteToPA, a European innovation project aimed at improving citizen engagement by enabling meaningful interaction between open data users, open…

Posted byby Danny Lämmerhirt
December 14, 2017

New Report: Avoiding data use silos – How governments can simplify the open licensing landscape

We are pleased to announce our latest report ‘Avoiding data use silos – How governments can simplify the open licensing landscape’. This report outlines the problems of an ever-growing complexity…

Posted byby Michaela Rybičková
December 7, 2017

Czech Open Data Challenge: a showcase of amazing transparency apps

This blog post was written by the Czech Republic Open Knowledge team as part of our blog series of Open Knowledge Network updates. In the fifth edition of Czech open data challenge, interested parties…

Posted byby RouteToPA
November 24, 2017

Pin it in the Parks: Crowdsourcing park facilities information in Dublin

Posted byby OKFN
November 1, 2017

Facilitating data validation and reuse for a scientific community

We worked with eLife to set up measures to assess the data quality, so that the value of this shared data is better understood by the research community.

Posted byby Oscar Montiel
October 12, 2017

AbreLatam / Condatos: after the first 5 years

This is a somewhat belated entry about the Abrelatam and Condatos, the regional open data conference of Latin America. It comes more than a month after the conference took place…

Posted byby Paul Walsh
September 5, 2017

Frictionless Data v1.0

Data Containerisation hits v1.0! Announcing a major milestone in the Frictionless Data initiative. Today, we’re announcing a major milestone in the Frictionless Data initiative with the official v1.0 release…

Posted byby Dirk Slater
August 13, 2017

Data is a Team Sport: Government Priorities and Incentives

Data is a Team Sport is a series of online conversations held with data literacy practitioners in mid-2017 that explores the ever evolving data literacy eco-system. To subscribe to the…

Posted byby OKFN
May 31, 2017

Open data quality – the next shift in open data?

This blog post is part of our Global Open Data Index blog series. It is a call to recalibrate our attention to the many different elements contributing to the ‘good…

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,…

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Open Knowledge Foundation Priorities for the 2025 OGP

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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’