Celebrate Open Data Day
Eduviges Gearlds
If you have an idea for using open data, want to find an interestingproject to contribute towards, learn about how to visualise or analysedata or simply want to see what's happening, then come participate!
Participation is a core value of Open Data Day, everyone is free tovoice their opinions in a constructive manner. No matter your skill-setor interests, we are encouraging organisers to foster opportunities foryou to learn and help the global open data community grow.
Hey there open data enthusiast! You just saw that Open Data Day will be on Saturday 6th March 2021 and you're interested in hosting an event in your locality? Your only challenge now is finding the idea that will hit the right spot. Our friends from the open data community have some ideas and data sources worth checking out.
If you have data but don't know where to put it, you can use DataHub. You can publish datasets, search for relevant data, browse thematic data collections and request help with your open data publishing.
To discover environmental or climate data to use or get inspiration from for your Open Data Day event: visit the ResourceWatch.org site, a World Resources Institute data portal; explore NASA's open data website; head to geoportal.org for earth observation data; or discover forest cover/loss data with Global Forest Watch.
If you want information on disaster risk management or resilience to natural hazards for your event, visit the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery Labs or Open Data for Resilience Initiative websites to discover tools and projects or find open data and resources to use via the Open Cities Africa project, Think Hazard, OpenDRI Index and Risk Data Library.
The Open Contracting Partnership and Hivos' Open Up Contracting websites provide lots of guidance and examples for people looking to do Open Data Day events focused on public procurement and spending. See also: the Open Data Charter guide to using open data to combat corruption.
The Centre for Humanitarian Data has over 17,000 humanitarian open datasets available via the CKAN-powered portal at data.humdata.org which may help to highlight key issues about equal development. You can also visit the United Nations' Open SDG Data Hub, the World Bank Open Data portal or the large data harvesting portals like the European Data Portal.
General ocean data portals include EMODNet and the Pacific Data Hub. For oceanographic data - seafloor maps, temperatures, currents - try the International Oceanographic Data Exchange and Schmidt Ocean Institute. For data on ocean wildlife try the Ocean Biological Information System the Global Biological Information System and the Ocean Tracking Network. Global Fishing Watch focuses on fishing, especially on the high seas and Marine Traffic shows all kinds of vessels.
On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data. Thanks to generous support from key funders, the Open Knowledge Foundation was able to support the running of more than 60 of these events via our mini-grants scheme.
This blogpost is a report from the 1991 Open Data Incubator in Ukraine who received funding from Datopian to facilitate a workshop and discussions to share the experiences of many parties working with or producing open data in Ukraine.
Ten Ukrainian cities held special events on March 4 to celebrate International Open Data Day. The most significant event took place in Kyiv. Open data communities and city administrations of Vinnytsia, Drohobych, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kropyvnytskyi, Lutsk, Lviv, Mariupol and Zaporizhia also joined the capital online.
Attendees also had an opportunity to meet the most successful Ukrainian open data startups on the Startup Alley. For the most curious guests, the Kyiv Open Data Day team conducted a workshop from Bohdan Tyshkevych, who works as an analyst and open data consultant for texty.org.ua. Bohdan shared his expertise about how to start working with open data, where to find datasets and how to use them. Also, he taught people how to create an open data chatbot. By the end of the day, 17 students had learned new skills and received certificates.
Open Data Day is the annual global celebration of open data. Each year, groups from around the world organise local events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data in their communities. It is an opportunity to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of open data policies in government, business and civil society.
Open Data Day is the annual global celebration of open data. Each year, groups from around the world organise local events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data in their communities. It is an opportunity to show the benefits of open data and encourage the adoption of open data policies in government, business and civil society.Email opend...@okfn.org to contact the Open Data Day team.
The inaugural MIT Prize for Open Data, which included a $2,500 cash prize, was recently awarded to 10 individual and group research projects. Presented jointly by the School of Science and the MIT Libraries, the prize recognizes MIT-affiliated researchers who make their data openly accessible and reusable by others. The prize winners and 16 honorable mention recipients were honored at the Open Data @ MIT event held Oct. 28 at Hayden Library.
Spearheaded by Bourg and Rebecca Saxe, associate dean of the School of Science and John W. Jarve (1978) Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, the MIT Prize for Open Data was launched to highlight the value of open data at MIT and to encourage the next generation of researchers. Nominations were solicited from across the Institute, with a focus on trainees: research technicians, undergraduate or graduate students, or postdocs.
The Center for Data and Bioinformation Services (CDABS) is the University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library hub for data and bioinformation learning, services, resources, and communication.
Taking the lessons learned from these experiences, we worked closely with the Jakarta City Government to influence other local and regional governments in Indonesia to implement their own open data initiatives.
We then scaled this advocacy to educate the national government on the benefits of adopting the International Open Data Charter, efforts that culminated in President Joko Widodo signing the One Data policy in 2019 to improve data governance practices in the country.
With the necessary infrastructure, procedures, and partnerships in place, the Lab shifted beyond raising awareness of open data to supporting its use for greater financial transparency, government accountability, and gender inclusive development.
To support civil society organisations to use open data for positive change, we developed customised training modules and knowledge products made freely available to the public under an open license.
At the regional level, through activities such as the Regional Open Data Agenda-Setting Workshop and the Research Partners Workshop, we strengthened our role as lead convenor for open data initiatives in Southeast Asia. We organised the Open Data Innovation Week to co-create tools and methods with innovators and government representatives from across the Asia-Pacific region.
In 2019, together with our partner Konsil LSM Indonesia, we launched a new project that will promote this shift towards data empowerment for increased financial transparency and gender inclusive development through the work of a coalition of change agents across 48 civil society organisations and four cities. Collaborating with a multi-stakeholder group, we developed a strategic plan to improve data availability and quality, as well as addressing the mismatch between open data publication and re-use.
Seamlessly connect courts, public safety, and supervision agencies to ensure safer and more efficient operations for correctional facilities. Give your justice partners access to critical and sensitive data including pre-booking information from officers in the field and inmate scheduling information for the court.
Empower your organization to access a single source of trusted data and securely share analysis, visualizations, and performance measurements across multiple departments and programs. Reuse your data and allow employees to transform data into insights on financial, operational, and strategic outcomes.
The benefits of open data in the government space are many: providing the public with transparency into how government runs; engaging communities with self-service access to public information; and democratizing information for decision-making.
One of the goals of Open Data Day is to encourage the adoption of open data policies in government. In that spirit, we are honored to highlight the inspiring work of the people and agencies who are bringing open data policies to life.
This challenge called for teams to apply The Opportunity Project (TOP) model by using open data and human-centered technology design to create digital tools. COIL received applications from far and wide from startups, large companies, universities, nonprofits, and even individual students working on independent projects.
International Open Access Week is a time to celebrate achievements in open access and learn more by hearing from practitioners and experts. While open access generally refers to publications, Open Scholarship is about making all research outputs, including data, more visible, and about sharing knowledge more widely.
The RDMWG is dedicated to fostering equitable systems of open research and scholarship that serve the needs of our diverse community. Each year we help host a variety of workshops on open platforms to help you make your research, data, and scholarship more accessible, collaborative, and reproducible.
Harvard Library celebrated Open Access Month 2021 from October 25 through November 19. The month featured a variety of live virtual events, talks, and workshops, and asynchronous weekly blog posts on various Open Access topics and perspectives. Access the presentations and materials from the week's sessions on the Open Science Framework Project Site.
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