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Call for consultation: Draft OECD Recommendation of the Council on Open Government
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has opened its draft recommendations of the Council on Open Government to the public for consultation, open until September 10, 2017. The OECD defines open government as: “a citizen-centred culture of governance that utilizes innovative and sustainable tools, ...
Call for applicants to COCONET: Southeast Asia Digital Rights Camp
EngageMedia, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), and the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) are calling for applications to COCONET: Southeast Asia Digital Rights Camp, to be held on October 22-26 in Indonesia. Applications are open until August 10. Read the full release below, and apply on EngageMedia’s website.—When: 22-26 October ...
GODAN & FAO to host Agriculture Open Data Package forum
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Open Data on Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) are seeking partipants for a forum discussion on open data for agriculture from July 10-24 on the e-agriculture platform.Read their release below or at the e-agriculture website.—e-Forum discussion on the ...
Extended call: ASEAN Data Science Explorers competition
The call for entries into the ASEAN Data Science Explorers competition has been extended until July 31. The competition aims to help ‘ASEAN youths in Southeast Asia to help shape the future by harnessing the power of data to highlight key issues in ASEAN. Use ...
The state of open licensing in 2017
Open Knowledge has published a great blog post summarising the status of open licencing globally in 2017. Read the post in full below.—June 8, 2017, by Danny LämmerhirtThis blog post is part of our Global Open Data Index (GODI) blog series. Firstly, it discusses what open ...
US EPA confirms continuity of open data service
US Environmental Protection Agency Public Affairs Director confirms that EPA’s Open Data Web service will not be turned off, given a continuing resolution is passed on April 28, 2017. The service will remain operational and available.Read more at Bernadette Hyland’s Medium article. ...