Empowering Through Open Knowledge : AOSC

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Open Knowledge Foundation Nepal

Empowering through Open Knowledge

Prakash NeupaneAmbassador [email protected]

Nepal


Who are theOpen Knowledge Foundation?


We are a global movement to open up knowledge around the world and see it used and useful.

We bring together a diverse community, building a network of individuals and organizations, founded on key principles.

We create change by educating, empowering, evangelising and making.

We promote open access, open content, and open data, and the public domain.


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 sharealike. - OpenDefinition.org


We want to see open by default in DNA of knowledge society


How do we promote openness?

- Principles - Policies - Practices


How do we promote openness?

- Principles - Policies - Practices

Lightweight technical standards like Open Data Protocolshttp://www.dataprotocols.org


Simple legal principles like Panton Principleshttp://pantonprinciples.org/


People

Big network of evangelists, hackers, makers, civil servants, civil society organizations, scientists, students, journalists, researchers, curators, lawyers, librarians, archivists, activists, artists, analysts, designers, educators, etc.


Working Groups in different domains.

Open Knowledge Foundation Working Groupshttp://okfn.org/wg


Local Groups

Open Knowledge Foundation Local Groupshttp://okfn.org/local


How do we promote reuse?

Skills and training


Data Journalism Handbook

http://datajournalismhandbook.org/


School of Data

http://schoolofdata.org/


Awards, challenges, competitions, fellowships, sprints


Open Data Challengehttp://opendatachallenge.org/


Tools and projects


Where Does My Money Go?http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org


OpenSpendinghttp://openspending.org/


CKANhttp://ckan.org/


The Public Domain Reviewhttp://publicdomainreview.org/


Lastly


From citizen science to civic hacking

From data journalism to digital humanities

Knowledge is not just stuff on hard drives

Global network

Shared vision of digital commons

Using open material to improve the world

Working together to make it happen


Prakash Neupanewww.Prakashneupane.com.np

AmbassadorOpen Knowledge Foundation Nepalhttp://www.np.okfn.org

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