This year, Artists Without a Cause have helped to coordinate this stand and we’re grateful to them for bringing many artists' work to our attention and helping to organise their presence at the festival. This session remains editorially independent.
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This session was co-created by the Open Access Open Knowledge Working Group. This session remains editorially independent as it was put together in consultation with the Programme Team following the same guidelines as for other sessions at the festival.
This session was co-created by the Open Education Open Knowledge Working Group. This session remains editorially independent as it was put together in consultation with the Programme Team following the same guidelines as for other sessions at the festival.
This ‘bridging’ session will bring together experts and enthusiasts working with government budgets for a variety of purposes and help to work out solutions to key challenges in improving the usability and comprehension of budgets across the world.
In this fluff-free, action oriented session, we will be investigating numerous concrete solutions, including standards for budget and spending data planning a course of action to push forward work in this area over the next 12 months.
Bring your brain and a good set of shoes, this session involves movement and a lot of teamwork.
Introductions (5 minutes)
Section 1 (15 - 20 mins) :
Format: World Cafe - 5 mini presentation groups around which participants rotate to introduce to new projects from around the world in the field of budget transparency.
Section 2: (30 mins) Overcoming challenges
Format: Spectogram. Overcoming challenges.
Having heard some of the concrete proposals put forward in the first section - participants react to proposed steps forward, voting with their feet in an exercise to capture the diversity of opinions.
Section 3: 5 mins Wrapup - next stepsThis session was co-created by the Public Domain Open Knowledge Working Group. This session remains editorially independent as it was put together in consultation with the Programme Team following the same guidelines as for other sessions at the festival.
This session was co-created by the Open Science Open Knowledge Working Group, Creative Commons and ContentMine. This session remains editorially independent as it was put together in consultation with the Programme Team following the same guidelines as for other sessions at the festival.
This session is co-created by the Open Education Open Knowledge Working Group. This session remains editorially independent as it was put together in consultation with the Programme Team following the same guidelines as for other sessions at the festival.
This session was co-created by the Open Access Open Knowledge Working Group. This session remains editorially independent as it was put together in consultation with the Programme Team following the same guidelines as for other sessions at the festival.
This session was co-created by the Open Humanities Open Knowledge Working Group. This session remains editorially independent as it was put together in consultation with the Programme Team following the same guidelines as for other sessions at the festival.
This year, Google are sponsoring this session and we’re grateful to them for helping to host this conversation. For more details about programme sponsors see our Sponsors page.
A new spirit of openness offers transparency: better information, decisions, governance; fairness: giving taxpayers back what they've already paid for; and innovation: the more you share ideas – the more others can build on them. That's what turns data into jobs; dust into gold.
Over the last four years we have delivered: Open public data. With binding new laws and guidance. Free of cost and restrictions, flowing as freely as water. Open science. Good for scientists, good for citizens, good for society. Horizon 2020 is worth 80 billion euros and every single publication will be openly available. The open internet. Without blocking or throttling by your telecoms provider. I am calling on national governments to agree that as a priority. Open education. With every classroom connected. Education that is not off the peg: but made to measure, for every child. So every teacher can choose to share their resources online, and benefit from others'. Open creativity. A copyright system about creativity and innovation – not limitation and control. Open standards. For interoperability and against lock-in. Open source and Open building blocks for new services and applications.
This session was co-created by the Open Transport Open Knowledge Working Group. This session remains editorially independent as it was put together in consultation with the Programme Team following the same guidelines as for other sessions at the festival.
The Sunlight Foundation, Access Info Europe, Transparency International and Open Knowledge are co-organizing this session to boost the conversation around lobbying transparency and gather evidence from the open government community that can guide future reform efforts.
We want to hear more about the challenges activists face when trying to introduce lobbying regulation and how they think lobbying should be defined. We will showcase transparency projects that translate lobbying into stories average citizens can relate to - such as Influence Explorer and LobbyPlag. We want to talk about how to better advocate for lobbying data, how to translate the information that’s available, and how to connect the dots about the influence industry without reliable government data. The session will introduce and discuss ongoing efforts to create globally applicable principles for definitions, disclosure and enforcement, and touch base on advocacy campaigns that proved successful.
You don't have to be an expert in lobbying regulation to attend -- we want to begin a dialogue that fits the needs and challenges of a broader segment of this community.
This session was co-created by the Open Science Open Knowledge Working Group. This session remains editorially independent as it was put together in consultation with the Programme Team following the same guidelines as for other sessions at the festival.
It would be easier to make the case for greater transparency and more open data about the flow of public resources if there were more examples or use cases of people using information to follow and shape the flow of public resources, particularly in ways that extend beyond sectoral silos. This session, organized by the Follow the Money Network, provides a space for people to share their experience of advocating for transparency and open data about the flow of public resources, to identify shared challenges - particularly around the availability of use cases and examples - and discuss how they might be addressed.
Session hashtag: #OKFestFTM
This session was co-created by the Open GLAM Open Knowledge Working Group. This session remains editorially independent as it was put together in consultation with the Programme Team following the same guidelines as for other sessions at the festival.
What does it take to build a successful civic application? At Google we believe it is important to focus on the user. During this session we will present some of our user research.
In the last year we’ve learned a great deal about the users and developers of civic technology: the citizen, the government and the civic activist.
We will get to understand what drives a citizen in becoming active online and how technology can support them to become active. We will learn what common barriers governments and civic technologists face in developing a their applications. At the end of this session you should be better equipped to design actions and mobilization platforms that can optimally activate citizens. We will start the workshop with several presentations after which we will ask participants of the workshop to share their cases and discuss why their civic applications were a success or failure. We will try to come up with a list of essential requirements for different types of civic applications and publish best practices.