Introduction to OKCon.

1. Open Knowledge
Conference
#okcon
#okcon2011

2. Scaling the
Open Knowledge Ecosystem

3. The Open Knowledge Foundation
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.
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.

4. Who we are
Board and Advisory Board
Oversight and strategy
Core Team
Rufus Pollock Jonathan Gray Jason Kitcat
Co-Founder Community Project
Coord Coord
Projects and Working Groups
James Gardner Jenny Molloy
CKAN Open Science WG
Local Chapters and Groups
Daniel Dietrich Stefano Costa
OKF Germany OKF Italia
Community Members
Volunteers and local partners in over 40 countries

5. What We Do: OpenSpending.org
Mapping 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.

6. CKAN - Comprehensive Knowledge
Archive Network
CKAN 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.

7. CKAN - Rapid Growth
CKAN 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. Chapters and Regional Groups
Regional groups and official First official chapter started in
chapters - an organic way the 2010 in Germany. Chapter in
community can grow in a Austria finalized just 2 weeks
distributed way. ago.

13. Looking
Forward

14. Building the
Open Data
Ecosytem

15. Material, Tools,
People
Open Data is not an
End in Itself ...

16. Tools + People
We're solving the quantity problem
(though plenty still to do)

17. Data Refining
Distributed
Collaborative
Componentized
Most of our current tools are closed!

18. Weaving Data
Together
Only beginning to work out
the architecture(s)

19. Data Line
to
Data Cycles
Building a real
Ecosystem

20. Enjoy the
Conference