OKF (Australia) Board Meeting
“A Season for Open Knowledge Advocacy in Australia” was kicked off last night with the first of five board meetings for the newly minted members of this years Open Knowledge Foundation Board. The next Board Meeting will be on June 25th at 6pm (Melbourne Time), the public broadcast and a public forum chat window will […]
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Open data in Queensland – lots of planning and 705 state datasets available
The Queensland Government has recently released two strategic reports that emphasise the future agenda for open data in this state. After public consultation, in December 2013 the government released a working draft of the Queensland 30 year vision (PDF) for comment. The governance section of the plan highlights the need for localised and more flexible […]
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Open Community Drinks – Melbourne, March 13!
Did you come to our drinks night at 1000 Pound Bend in January? If you missed it, here’s your chance! The first drinks night was such a success we’re doing it again. Come along to the ThoughtWorks office (23/303 Collins Street) on the 13th of March at 6pm to chat with people about the awesome […]
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Melbourne open communities drinks
Drinks were so successful….We thought we might hold them again! Thanks for coming along everyone! That was excellent. Can’t remember the last time I heard ‘You should talk to X!’ so many times. Watch out for notices in March – we will be holding drinks […]
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Melbourne drinks for open communities – Jan 23rd
Melbourne drinks – Thurs 23rd Jan, 6pm, 1000 Pound Bend
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2013 in review – Melbourne
2013 has been a packed year for the OKFN Melbourne team. Here are a few highlights. The year began with a data journalism day hosted by The Age prior to Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s Melbourne lecture. The day brought together storytellers with data wranglers to coax the news out of a number of large datasets with […]
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Doing Open Knowledge in South Australia
It’s been a big year for the Open Knowledge movement in South Australia. Adelaide played host to Dr Rufus Pollock, founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation at the end of August. In an action packed day Rufus spoke to the South Australian Executive Service and engaged in a public discussion on open knowledge hosted by […]
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Open government data – what can we do in 2014?
The State of Queensland is ramping up activities in preparation for the G20 summit to be held in Brisbane in November 2014. According to the official G20 charter, its purpose is to be a premier forum for international cooperation on the most important issues of the global economic and financial agenda. From an open data […]
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Can we hack health? Researchers and hackers come together to find out at #HealthHack
Watching GovHack grow to over 800 developers this past year was amazing (and it will be even more amazing this year!), however watching an event when it is just the sparkle in the eye of a small community is even more exciting. Exciting because of the potential it has, the potential to change things in […]
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Data Down Under and the CKAN Users Group
The open data train rolls on. Many states (and a territory) have data catalogues and now 3 states (SA, QLD, NSW) and the federal government (data.gov.au) have moved to a CKAN platform. CKAN data catalogues are exciting because they provide a way not only to find and access the data but actually utilise it. Through a […]
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