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The Open Knowledge Foundation exists to address these challenges by promoting the openness of knowledge in all its forms, in the belief that freer access to information will have far-reaching social and commercial benefits. In particular, we
- Promote the idea of open knowledge, for example by running a series of forums.
- Instigate and support projects related to the creation and distribution of open knowledge.
- Campaign against restrictions, both legal and non-legal, on open knowledge. See the Open Knowledge Trail to learn more.
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10 October 2008, 10:36 am
Open Everything London, 6th November 2008
As you may know, we’ve been involved in co-organising Open Everything London with the Young Foundation, the Shuttleworth Foundation and Open Business. We’re pleased to say that details are...
9 October 2008, 6:20 pm
Workshop on Finding and Re-using Open Scientific Resources, 8th November 2008
We’re pleased to announce another OKF workshop in London this November - on ‘Finding and Re-using Open Scientific Resources’. As a concrete outcome of the workshop, we hope to add mo...
8 October 2008, 6:56 pm
Workshop on Finding and Re-using Public Information, 1st November 2008
We are pleased to announce a workshop on ‘Finding and Re-using Public Information’, co-organised with the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI), the Power of Information (POI) Taskfor...
5 October 2008, 9:21 pm
Open organisations, need for two more definitions!
If starting a new, public interest, organisation, there are three obvious principles you might like to have. Finance - have all bank transactions automatically public in real time. Plus accounts. S...
5 October 2008, 12:19 pm
Vote for ‘Where Does My Money Go?’ at the Show Us A Better Way poll!
The Guardian’s Free Our Data campaign has set up a poll to help gather people’s opinions on the best entrants for the Show Us A Better Way competition run by the Power of Information Task ...
2 October 2008, 11:57 am
After the open textbook virtual meeting
On Monday we hosted a virtual meeting on open textbooks. A transcript of the meeting is up on the wiki page. There is also a brief writeup on Wikibooks News. Several things to come out of the meeting...
29 September 2008, 9:26 am
Open textbook virtual meeting today!
A final reminder for our open textbook meeting later today. Details from the wiki page: This will be an online meeting for anyone interested in open textbooks - including students, educators, auth...
26 September 2008, 3:42 pm
What can you do with Open Shakespeare?
We’ve recently updated Open Shakespeare. The project was started a while back as an open knowledge ‘exemplar project’ - i.e. as a simple ‘hello world’ type open knowledge...
22 September 2008, 10:26 pm
Where Does My Money Go?
Since early 2007 we’ve had a project dubbed ‘Where Does My Money Go?’ on the backburner. In a sentence, the project would be a web application that interactively represented UK gover...
17 September 2008, 8:25 pm
Clearer Climate Code
GISTEMP is a crucial open data set, because it contains the historical global temperature record. Not very important right now, but in the medium term absolutely vital for the continuing functioning o...