International Open Data Day is an annual event that promotes awareness and use of open data .
17-698: Open Knowledge Foundation ( OKF ) is a global, non-profit network that promotes and shares information at no charge, including both content and data. It was founded by Rufus Pollock on 20 May 2004 in Cambridge , UK. It is incorporated in England and Wales as a private company limited by guarantee . Between May 2016 and May 2019 the organisation was named Open Knowledge International , but decided in May 2019 to return to Open Knowledge Foundation . The aims of Open Knowledge Foundation are: Renata Ávila Pinto joined as
34-437: A European project created to share and organise data from seven countries, which ran from October 2013 to May 2016. Rufus Pollock Rufus Pollock (born 1980) is a British economist, activist and social entrepreneur. He has been a leading figure in the global open knowledge and open data movements, starting with his founding in 2004 of the non-profit Open Knowledge Foundation which he led until 2015. From 2007–2010 he
51-526: A Free Information Infrastructure (2005-6, UK director), Creative Commons UK, Datopian (founder) and Life Itself (co-founder). On 24 May 2004 Pollock founded in Cambridge , UK the Open Knowledge Foundation as a global non-profit network that promotes and shares open knowledge including open data and open content - information that is openly and freely available. In 2007 and 2009, Pollock published two important papers regarding
68-597: A new non-profit "Life Itself". However, he has continued to work actively on the economics and politics of the information age, including publishing "The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age" in 2018. Whilst at Open Knowledge International he initiated a variety of projects, many of which continue to be active. In 2005 he created The Open Definition which provided the first formal definition of open content and open data , and which has remained
85-555: Is used by many of the world's governments to host open catalogues of data that their countries possess. The organisation tends to support its aims by hosting infrastructure for semi-independent projects to develop. This approach to organising was hinted as one of its earliest projects was a project management service called KnowledgeForge, which runs on the KForge platform. KnowledgeForge allows sectoral working groups to have space to manage projects related to open knowledge. More widely,
102-1130: The Git version control software . Some of the projects are listed below: Much of the collaboration with other related organisations occurs via events that the foundation hosts. Its premier event is the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon), which has been held occasionally since 2007. Other events have been organised within the areas of data visualisation and free information network infrastructure. Annually, Open Knowledge Foundation supports International Open Data Day The Panton Principles (for Open Data in Science) in 2010 had large contributions from Open Knowledge people and in 2011 Jonathan Gray and Peter Murray-Rust successfully obtained funding from OSF for two fellowships, held by Sophie Kershaw and Ross Mounce. In 2013 OKF obtained sponsorship from CCIA for 3 fellowships, which were awarded to Rosemarie Graves, Sam Moore, and Peter Kraker. Open Knowledge Foundation also supports Apps for Europe, and D-CENT,
119-666: The UK government 's Public Sector Transparency Board . The Prototype Fund is a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It is a low-threshold funding program for Germany software developers who develop innovative open source software . The foundation places a strong interest in the use of open source technologies. Its software projects are hosted on GitHub , which utilises
136-632: The ambiguity surrounding the terminology of openness, as well as the Open Software Service Definition. It also supported the development of the Open Database License (ODbL). Outside of technology, Open Knowledge Foundation plays a role in advocating for openness broadly. This includes supporting the drafting of reports, facilitating consultation and producing guides. Rufus Pollock, one of Open Knowledge Foundation's founders, and current board secretary sits on
153-428: The announcement of open data releases or other milestones in open data. In some countries it occurs along with Code Across coding events. International Open Data Day was first proposed by David Eaves in 2010. The idea followed discussions with Edward Ocampo-Gooding, Mary Beth Baker, Daniel Beauchamp, Pedro Markun, and Daniela Silva. Today, the event coordination is done through its google mailing list. The date for
170-549: The areas of open access , open data , open content , open science , data visualization and digital rights . In 2015, it consisted of: As of 2018, Open Knowledge Foundation has 11 official chapters and 38 groups in different countries. In November 2022, the Open Knowledge Network was relaunched with two new projects. It also supports 19 working groups. Many of Open Knowledge Foundation's projects are technical in nature. Its most prominent project, CKAN ,
187-508: The event is chosen by the group members taking into consideration different cultural events. From 2015, Open Knowledge Foundation - in cooperation with other NGOs from the open data world - has offered mini-grants to support the facilitation of events around the globe. In 2016, Megan Smith , United States CTO , endorsed Open Data Day with a special video. “ We need you the most. If it weren’t for you, this whole thing wouldn’t be happening. We need ideas, cheerleaders, and friends to spread
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#1732765722211204-636: The new Chief Executive Officer of the Open Knowledge Foundation in October 2021. From February 2019 to August 2020, Catherine Stihler served as CEO. She left the Open Knowledge Foundation to become the CEO of Creative Commons . Between 2015–2017 Pavel Richter took on the role of CEO of Open Knowledge Foundation. Pavel was formerly Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutschland . The Open Knowledge Foundation Advisory Council includes people from
221-562: The optimal copyright term , where he proposed based on an economical model with empirically-estimable parameters an optimal duration of 15 years, significantly shorter than any currently existing copyright term. He has held the Mead Research Fellowship in economics at Emmanuel College , Cambridge . In 2009, he was credited by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee for starting the Raw Data Now meme . In 2010 he
238-532: The project infrastructure includes both technical and face-to-face aspects. The organisation hosts several dozen mailing lists for virtual discussion, utilises IRC for real-time communications and also hosts events. Open Knowledge Foundation is an active partner with organisations working in similar areas, such as open educational resources. Open Knowledge Foundation has produced the Open Knowledge Definition , an attempt to clarify some of
255-512: The standard reference definition. In 2005–06 he created the first version of CKAN , open source software for finding and sharing datasets, especially open datasets. CKAN has evolved and is the leading open data platform software in the world, used by governments including the US and UK, to publish millions of public datasets. He helped to lead or co-found other organizations including Open Rights Group (2005, co-founder and board member), Foundation for
272-567: Was appointed as one of the four founding members of the UK Government's Public Sector Transparency Board . In 2018 he published his first book The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age, making it openly available for download online. International Open Data Day The event takes place globally, usually in February or March. Typical activities include talks, seminars, demonstrations, hackathons , training or
289-733: Was the Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and from 2010–2013 he was a Shuttleworth Foundation fellow. In 2012 was appointed an Ashoka Fellow and remains an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge and continues to serve on the board of Open Knowledge International. Since leaving Open Knowledge International, his work has moved to focus more on broader issues of social transformation and in 2016 he co-founded
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