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Welcome to the Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter.
The Open Knowledge Foundation is happy to share with you the latest updates on our projects, network activities and events as we work to create a fair, free and open future.

2020 will see the 10th anniversary of Open Data Day and we are very happy to announce that the global celebration of open data will take place on Saturday 7th March. Save the date and spread the word using the #OpenDataDay hashtag.
Thanks for the generous support of funders, we will again be running a mini-grants scheme giving between $200 and $300 USD to support great Open Data Day events across the world. Stay tuned for a call for applications in January 2020.

In recent months, our CEO Catherine Stihler has been busy spreading the word about our work. Catherine spoke at the World Library Congress, Doing Data Right conference in Edinburgh, gave a CREATe public lecture on the EU’s disastrous Copyright Directive, reinforced the importance of protecting libraries, moderated a panel on open science during the European Research and Innovation Days and ran a session in the Openness space at the Mozilla Festival.

With your help, we’ll continue to fight for a fair, free and open future where knowledge is shared by all – freely available to everyone, a world where people are able to fulfil their potential and live happy and healthy lives. Donate now to support our work: http://bit.ly/DonatetoOKF
Highlights from our projects
Read the latest update on the progress our Frictionless Data Tool Fund grantees have made towards developing open source tooling for reproducible research built using the Frictionless Data specifications and software. In August, we also welcomed four Frictionless Data for Reproducible Research Fellows who will champion the Frictionless Data tools and approaches in their field. 

Link Digital, the co-stewards of the CKAN project, recently announced the launch of Datashades.info, a tool designed to deliver insights for researchers, portal managers and the wider tech community to inform and support open data efforts relating to data hosted on CKAN platforms.

Find out more in a blogpost from executive director Steven de Costa.
From our network

• Members of the MyData/Open Knowledge Finland team were incredibly busy in September running the very successful MyData 2019 conference in Helsinki. Read their recent blogpost for details about what is coming next after the conference or check out an earlier post by Viivi Lähteenoja about the origins of the movement.

• In August, Open Knowledge Somalia launched a local data literacy initiative to assist researchers, data journalists, scholars, librarians, and other professionals. 

• Reacting to a growth in demand for real-time data, Open Knowledge Nepal recently launched the beta version of a real-time data dashboard for the Open Data Nepal portal. Read more in this blogpost from CEO Nikesh Balami.

• International Open Access Week 2019 took place between 21st and 27th October with the theme of Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge. To reflect on this, our Frictionless Data fellows wrote about what Open Access means to them, why it is important, and especially how people are (positively and negatively) affected by openness in science
Upcoming events
On 12th November, the Open Data Institute is hosting its flagship event, the ODI summit, covering critical issues around data and its role and impact – both positive and negative. Gathering people from governments, businesses and civil society, the ODI Summit brings together sectors to discuss major issues of the day – from ethics to trust, business models to emerging technology.
csv,conf - a community conference for data makers everywhere - will take place on the 13th and 14th May 2020 at the University of California’s Washington Center in Washington DC. Open Knowledge Foundation is happy to again be supporting the organisation of csv,conf,v5 alongside organisations including DataCite, Datopian and The Carpentries. If you want to attend to give a talk, send your proposal in by 7th February 2020.


The Creative Commons Global Summit will again take place in Lisbon, Portugal from 14th to 16th May 2020. Save the date.
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