Interested in piloting public feedback on government policy?
Participate in a small 1st trial to help us show government what it could look like: 2 weeks left to provide views and comments on the 1st Irish OGP Action Plan! Open Knowledge Ireland are piloting a more transparent and open way of providing feedback and input to the OGP Action Plan that was recently published […]
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Open Government Partnership – Minister Publishes Ireland’s Draft National Action Plan
Draft OGP National Action Plan 06-05-14 – Tell us What you Think in the Comment section below. by Open Knowledge Ireland
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Open Data Ireland community’s wishlist for Insight/NUIG Report on Government’s Open Data Strategy
[OGP NAP Open Data section – w/ community comments] From: All: Feedback on best practice standard from Open Data IRL Community as requested by Stephan Decker and Deirdre Lee (Insight/NUIG) during hangout on 7 April 2014 What is Open Data? [OKF] “A piece of content or data is open if you are free to use, reuse, […]
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Last Meeting of the Joint OGP Working Group between 5 civil society group members and the D/PER Team
First things first: Last Meeting of the Joint OGP Working Group between 5 civil society group members and the DPER Team. We were never in favour of these closed group meetings as the only way to communicate on drafting the OGP Action Plan. We raised wider consultation, online channels and more open channels of communication […]
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Open Letter Addressed to Minister Brendan Howlin asking to commit to dropping FOI/AIE fees as part of Ireland’s 1st OGP Action Plan
Signatories at the bottom Why Now: The Minister is talking about the Freedom of Information Bill but not about fees. The OGP Action Plan provides a new opportunity but it is being dismissed. The Opportunity This Open Letter highlights the opportunity that the Government has as part of the OGP Action Plan and its […]
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Weekly Round-Up 31/3/2014
What happened in the OKF Ireland world last week you ask? Where do we fit in the Irish open data, transparency, accountability and citizen participation debate? – You have come to the right place to find out. We are trialing a new form of weekly updates where we aim to keep you posted and highlight […]
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OGP Action Plan: Meetings with Departments of Justice and Environment
As we are continuing our work to collaborate on drafting Ireland’s 1st OGP Action Plan in a Joint Working Group the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform D/PER has helped us to set up 2 meetings with members of civil society and officials from the Department of Justice and the Department of the Environment, Community and […]
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International Open Data Day Ireland – RoundUp (#ODD14)
In Ireland Open Data Day was celebrated on February 22nd 2014 in Dublin with work on 4 open data and civic projects. Around 70 people – data wranglers, coders, activists, civil society representatives and interested citizens – volunteered their time and participated actively in the different projects. The event took place from 10am – 7pm so we got a […]
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22/2/2014 – International Open Data Day
Sign-Up: 22/2/2014 – International Open Data Day What will it look like you ask? – Some pictures from an Open Data Hackathon we held last September. This Feb. 22nd Open Knowledge Foundation are organizing a book sprint to create an open source and free to use textbook for schools that will help kids get coding […]
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