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 […]
Invitation: Meetup #12 (Cork) Open Data and Education in Ireland
Are you interested in Open Data and Open Knowledge? Then come along to Open Data Ireland’s next meetup which takes place in UCC, Cork on Thursday January 23rd at 6pm. You’ll learn more about our exciting projects that encourage communities to get involved in the worldwide Open Data Movement as well as participating in the […]
Laura James: OKF is all about opening information, so people can understand problems and solve them.
Dr. Laura James (CEO, OKF) addressing Open Data Ireland Meetup #11 via G+
10th Open Data Ireland Meetup
Originally posted by Dominic Byrne here The 10th Open Data Ireland Meetup took place on Thursday 24th October in a new venue at TCube, Castle Street, Dublin. The theme of this meetup was “The Way Forward for Open Data in Ireland”. Tweets from the meetup have been storified at http://storify.com/Fingal/10th-open-data-ireland-meetup/ Denis Parfenov @prfnv started off our […]
Statement re: last minute amendments to FOI Bill 2013 in Ireland
Open Knowledge Foundation Ireland strongly oppose the government’s last minute amendments to the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill 2013 involving an additional charge for multifaceted FOI requests. Restoring FOI legislation to its pre-2003 form was one of the key commitments of the current government[1]. This late-stage legislative amendment instead compounds the damage done by […]
CKAN Hackathon: Hello from OKF Ireland!
Last Saturday, the ‘Open Data Ireland’ community and the Open Knowledge Foundation Network held a ‘CKAN Hackathon’. This event was kindly sponsored by Fingal County Council, ESRI Ireland and The Irish Organisation for Geographic Information. Developers, designers, journalists, academics, policy makers, creative thinkers, civil servants, entrepreneurs and active citizens all came together to revive open […]