Ending Secrecy – Why Global Transparency Rules Matter
Earlier this week, the SEC voted on the final rules of Section 1504 of the Dodd Frank Act. Global Witness teamed up with the Open Knowledge Foundation to explain what these rules are about, and why...
View ArticleOpenDataMx: Opening Up the Government, one Bit at a Time
On August 24-25, another edition of OpenDataMx took place: a 36-hour public data hackathon for the development of creative technological solutions to questions raised by the civil society. This time...
View ArticleIgnite Cleanweb
Ignite Event in London This Thursday in London, Cleanweb UK invites you to their first Ignite evening, hosted by Forward Technology. Come along and see a great lineup of lightning talks, all about...
View ArticleOpen Interests Europe Hackathon in London, 24-25 November
The European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation invite you to the Open Interests Europe Hackathon to track the lobbyists’ interests and money flows which shape European policy. When:...
View ArticleForget Big Data, Small Data is the Real Revolution
There is a lot of talk about “big data” at the moment. For example, this is Big Data Week, which will see events about big data in dozens of cities around the world. But the discussions around big...
View ArticleFrictionless Data: making it radically easier to get stuff done with data
Frictionless Data is now in alpha at http://data.okfn.org/ – and we’d like you to get involved. Our mission is to make it radically easier to make data used and useful – our immediate goal is make it...
View ArticleWhat Do We Mean By Small Data
Earlier this week we published the first in a series of posts on small data: “Forget Big Data, Small Data is the Real Revolution”. In this second in the series, we discuss small data in more detail...
View ArticleIntroducing Open Knowledge Foundation Labs
Today we’re pleased to officially launch Open Knowledge Foundation Labs, a community home for civic hackers, data wranglers and anyone else intrigued and excited by the possibilities of combining...
View ArticleEnding Secrecy – Why Global Transparency Rules Matter
Earlier this week, the SEC voted on the final rules of Section 1504 of the Dodd Frank Act. Global Witness teamed up with the Open Knowledge Foundation to explain what these rules are about, and why...
View ArticleOpenDataMx: Opening Up the Government, one Bit at a Time
On August 24-25, another edition of OpenDataMx took place: a 36-hour public data hackathon for the development of creative technological solutions to questions raised by the civil society. This time...
View ArticleIgnite Cleanweb
Ignite Event in London This Thursday in London, Cleanweb UK invites you to their first Ignite evening, hosted by Forward Technology. Come along and see a great lineup of lightning talks, all about...
View ArticleOpen Interests Europe Hackathon in London, 24-25 November
The European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation invite you to the Open Interests Europe Hackathon to track the lobbyists’ interests and money flows which shape European policy. When:...
View ArticleForget Big Data, Small Data is the Real Revolution
This is the first in a series of posts. The next posts in the series is What Do We Mean by Small Data There is a lot of talk about “big data” at the moment. For example, this is Big Data Week, which...
View ArticleFrictionless Data: making it radically easier to get stuff done with data
Frictionless Data is now in alpha at http://data.okfn.org/ – and we’d like you to get involved. Our mission is to make it radically easier to make data used and useful – our immediate goal is make it...
View ArticleWhat Do We Mean By Small Data
Earlier this week we published the first in a series of posts on small data: “Forget Big Data, Small Data is the Real Revolution”. In this second in the series, we discuss small data in more detail...
View ArticleIntroducing Open Knowledge Foundation Labs
Today we’re pleased to officially launch Open Knowledge Foundation Labs, a community home for civic hackers, data wranglers and anyone else intrigued and excited by the possibilities of combining...
View ArticleAn approach to building open databases
This post has been co-authored by Adam Kariv, Vitor Baptista, and Paul Walsh. Open Knowledge International (OKI) recently coordinated a two-day work sprint as a way to touch base with partners in the...
View ArticleExposing legacy project datasets in Digital Humanities: King’s Digital Lab...
This is a repost of a blog published by Arianna Ciula on Kings Digital Lab Blog on July 7, 2020 In this blogpost we share our experiences at King’s Digital Lab (KDL). While we can call the process a...
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