1. The Open Knowledge Foundation Irina Bolychevsky @shevski www.ckan.org www.okfn.org www.thedatahub.org

2. A not-for-profit organisation promoting openness in all its forms. Progress through community engagement - organise events to bring people together. We have projects and partnerships throughout the world , especially in Europe. The Open Knowledge Foundation We build tools and communities to create, use and share open knowledge - content and data that everyone can use, share and build on. Aim to improve governance, research and the economy .

3. A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike. http://opendefinition.org/ What does open mean?

4. What problems are we trying to solve? Step 1: get the data open Step 2: make is accessible Step 3: start building, linking and turning data into something more - information

6. Share data - give your data an online home with rich, extendable metadata

8. Find data - keyword search + faceting by tags, groups

9. Datasets and resources get their own page with additional information and link to download:

10. Use Data - Europe's Spending (openspending.org)

11. UK Government Spending data visualised

12. Europe's Energy (from Eurostat)

14. Used by - Data.gov.uk

15. ...many CKAN instances around the world

17. Any Questions? Irina Bolychevsky @shevski www.ckan.org www.okfn.org www.thedatahub.org