OPEN KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION – By Rufus Pollock
This is a blog post by Rufus Pollock, co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
OKCon, the annual Open Knowledge Conference kicked off today and it’s been great so far. For those not here in Berlin with us you can follow main track talks via video streaming:http://www.ustream.tv/channel/open-knowlegde
Below are my slides from my introductory talk which gives an overview of the Foundation and its activities and then looked to what the challenges are for the open data community going forward.
The last several decades the world has seen an explosion of digital technologies which have the potential to transform the way knowledge is disseminated.
This world is rapidly evolving and one of its more striking possibilities is the creation of an open data ecosystem in which information is freely used, extended and built on. [Read more…]