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Open KnowledgeConference

Scaling theOpen Knowledge Ecosystem

A community-based, not-for-profit. Started in 2004, the Foundation now has members, projects and partnerships throughout the world.

We build tools and communities to create, use and share open knowledge - content and data that everyone can use, share and build on.

The Open Knowledge Foundation

We believe that by creating an open knowledge commons and developing tools and communities around this we can make a significant contribution to improving governance, research and the economy.

Who we are

Rufus PollockCo-Founder

James GardnerCKAN

Daniel DietrichOKF Germany

Jenny MolloyOpen Science WG

Stefano CostaOKF Italia

Jonathan GrayCommunityCoord

Jason KitcatProjectCoord

Community MembersVolunteers and local partners in over 40 countries

Core Team

Local Chapters and Groups

Projects and Working Groups

Board and Advisory BoardOversight and strategy

What We Do: OpenSpending.orgMapping the money globally - track every public financial transaction from governments and corporations around the world.

Started with internationally recognized Where Does My Money Go? project in the UK. Grown in last 6 months to involve 15+ countries.

Partnering with NGOs, researchers, journalists and others.

Interactive data store plus suite of tools for analysis and visualisation.

CKAN - Comprehensive Knowledge Archive NetworkCKAN is our data hub software - making it easy to get, use and share data. It enables people to contribute back derived datasets, notes, changes and comments.

CKAN is central to our vision for distributed, collaborative and componentized 'development' of data - analogous to the highly successful development model in open-source software.

CKAN - Rapid GrowthCKAN helps power data.gov.uk, and over 30 official and community data hubs around the world - with most of this activity in last 18 months.

Other Projects

Energy.PublicData.eu - Track progress towards EU renewables targets.

OpenDataCommons.org and the Open Definition - suite of standards and legal tools to make data open

Yourtopia.net - Global development beyond GDP. A winner of World Bank Apps competition.

PublicDomainWorks.net - find out which works are in the public domain in a given country.

Working Groups

A wide range of working groups in different domains.

Bring together experts in order to:● promote legal/technical openness● map open resources● encourage collaboration● strengthen community● undertake mini-projects● organise events and activities● keep track of news/developments

Foundation provides guidance, support, infrastructure, contacts and outreach.

An Example: Open Gov Data

Over 100 affiliated members with 500 members of the mailing list.

Organized first international Open Government Data Camp in Nov 2010 with over 300 participants from more than 30 countries

#opendata film about Open Government Data. Subtitled by working group community into 20+ languages.

Chapters and Regional GroupsRegional groups and official chapters - an organic way the community can grow in a distributed way.

First official chapter started in 2010 in Germany. Chapter in Austria finalized just 2 weeks ago.

Looking Forward

Building the Open Data Ecosytem

Material, Tools, People

Open Data is not an End in Itself ...

Tools + People

We're solving the quantity problem (though plenty still to do)

Data RefiningDistributed

CollaborativeComponentized

Most of our current tools are closed!

Weaving Data Together

Only beginning to work out the architecture(s)

Data Lineto

Data Cycles

Building a real Ecosystem

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