Open Government Data
Goes Global

Rufus Pollock
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org/

Welcome!

Things are really
moving

Wouldn't it be
cool if ...?

Great! What next?

Two Things

Use an Open License

http://www.opendefinition.org/

Raw, machine-Readable

We have opened up
some data. Now what?

Easy to find,
easy to reuse

CKAN

Started http://ckan.net/ in 2007, now 1500+ open data 'packages'. More than a dozen other CKAN instances around the world.

Listen to people

This is just
the beginning