Choose Open, Choose Freedom: Open Knowledge Network

Nikesh BalamiCEO | Open Knowledge Nepal www.neekes.com.np

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.

Tools and Communities

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

But we are talking aboutOpen Knowledge Network

● 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

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.

It's the fight for the soul of the Information Age Cuz Open

Knowledge means freedom.

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/

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.

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.

Why??

The future is OpenLet's make a world where Digital knowledge

creates power for the many not the few.

This is the world we choose

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

society

Thank You!!

Connect: http://oknp.org/get-connected/