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Who are theOpen Knowledge Foundation?
We are a global movement to open up knowledge around the world and see it used and useful.
We bring together a diverse community, building a network of individuals and organisations, founded on key principles.
We create change by educating, empowering, evangelising and making.
We promote open access, open content, and open data, and the public domain.
1. Opening up knowledge2. Seeing it used and useful
1. Opening up knowledge2. Seeing it used and useful
What do we mean by open?
“A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or sharealike.” - OpenDefinition.org
We want to see “open by default”in DNA of knowledge society
How do we promote openness?
Principles, policies and practises
Lightweight technical standards like Open Data Protocolshttp://www.dataprotocols.org
Simple legal principles like Panton Principleshttp://pantonprinciples.org/
People
Big network of evangelists, hackers, makers, civil servants, civil society organisations, scientists, students, journalists, researchers, curators, lawyers, librarians, archivists, activists, artists, analysts, designers, educators, etc.
Working Groups in different domains.
Local Groups in countries and cities around the world.
Open Knowledge Foundation Local Groupshttp://okfn.org/local
Events
OKFestival 2012, Helsinki1000+ people for 5 days
Talks, workshops, makinghttp://okfestival.org
OKCon 2013, 17-18 September, GenevaPublic policy for global digital commons
International collaborationhttp://okcon.org
Open Knowledge Foundation Meetupshttp://www.meetup.com/OpenKnowledgeFoundation/
Documentation
How to open stuff up the right way
Open Data Handbookhttp://opendatahandbook.org/
1. Opening up knowledge2. Seeing it used and useful
How do we promote reuse?
Skills and training
Data Journalism Handbookhttp://datajournalismhandbook.org/
Awards, challenges, competitions, fellowships, sprints
Open Data Challengehttp://opendatachallenge.org/
Open Humanities Awardshttp://openhumanitiesawards.org/
Panton Fellowships for Open Data in Science
Tools and projects
Where Does My Money Go?http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/
Europe’s Energyhttp://energy.publicdata.eu
The Public Domain Reviewhttp://publicdomainreview.org/
Collaboration around the commons
From citizen science to civic hacking
From data journalism to digital humanities
Knowledge is not just stuff on hard drives
Global network
Shared vision of digital commons
Using open material to improve the world
Working together to make it happen
Jonathan [email protected] | @jwyg
Director of Policy and IdeasThe Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org | @okfn
