Presentation slide about Open Knowledge Nepal and Open Data used during the Software Freedom Day 2017 celebration at Kathmandu University.

1. Choose Open, Choose Freedom:
Open Knowledge Network
Nikesh Balami
CEO | Open Knowledge Nepal
www.neekes.com.np

2. Who we are?
● We are a global network using advocacy and technology to open up knowledge and see it
used to empower citizens and organizations to drive positive change.
● We build tools and communities to create, use and share open knowledge - content and
data that everyone can use, share and build on.
● We believe that by creating an open knowledge commons and developing tools and
communities around this, we can make a significant contribution to improving governance,
research and the economy.

3. Tools and Communities

4. Open Knowledge:
Knowledge that one in free to use, reuse,
redistribute without legal, social or
technological restriction.

5. But we are talking about
Open Knowledge Network

6. ● Open GLAM
● Open Education
● Open Access
● Open Hardware and Design
● Open Definition
● Open Linguistics
● Open Humanities
● Open Science
● Personal Data and Privacy
● Openspending
● Open Product Data
● Open Development
● Open Government Data
● Open Transport
● Open Economics
● Public Domain
● Open Licences

8. Look's Mess but Openness is like
Digital was in 1995, You're going to
have to engage with it whether you
like it or not.

9. It's the fight for the soul of the
Information Age Cuz Open
Knowledge means freedom.

10. What do we mean by open?
A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and
redistribute it - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute
and/or share-alike” - http://opendefnition.org/

11. Open Data
Open data involves
● the proactive disclosure of information;
● the Internet being the primary medium for such disclosure;
● information being made available for access and for reuse free of charge and;
● information being made available in a machine-readable format to enable
computer-based reuse.

12. Why Open Data?
● Innovation, Efficiency and Transparency
● The Many Mind Principle - The best thing to do with your data will be thought of
by someone else.
● Fixing is Faster with Open Data - To many eyes all bugs are shallow.

14. Why??

18. The future is Open
Let's make a world where Digital knowledge
creates power for the many not the few.
This is the world we choose

19. We want to see “open by
default” in DNA of knowledge
society

20. Thank You!!
Connect:
http://oknp.org/get-connected/