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Net Zero Challenge: a global pitch competition about using open data for climate action

Open Knowledge Foundation is excited to launch the Net Zero Challenge, a global pitch competition about using open data for climate action. 

With a new administration in the USA and the COP26 meeting in the UK, 2021 will be a crucial year for the global climate response.

Let’s see how open data can play its part. 

Tell us how your idea or project uses open data for climate action – and you could win a $1,000USD in the first round of the Net Zero Challenge. 

Full details about the Net Zero Challenge are available at netzerochallenge.info. 

This project is funded by our partners at Microsoft and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. We are extremely grateful for their support. 
Open Data Day 2021 mini-grant winners
Read about the organisations from all over the world who have been awarded mini-grants to help them celebrate Open Data Day on Saturday 6th March 2021.

Check out the new events listings and search on the Open Data Day website and help us with translating the website along with other key materials to spread the word about Open Data Day.
Updates on our projects
Learn about Schema-collaboration, a Frictionless Data tool fund project developed by Carles Pina Estany on our blog or via YouTube presentation.

Meet Sara Petti, the new Frictionless Data community manager by reading her introductory blogpost.

Frictionless Data product manager Lilly Winfree will give a talk at 1:30pm CET on 18th February during the online Open Science Conference.

Check out the schedule for FOSDEM's Open Research Tools and Technologies devroom where Frictionless Data tools were showcased alongside other great projects during the conference on 6th and 7th February.

Learn more about Frictionless Data by joining our monthly virtual hangouts. Watch January's community on YouTube and RSVP now for our next hangout on 25th February at 2pm GMT.
We are proud to announce a new project for the Open Knowledge Justice Programme – strategic litigation. This might mean we will go to court to make sure public impact algorithms are used fairly, and cause no harm. It will also include advocacy in the form of letters and negotiation.

You can also read the latest blogpost from Meg Foulkes, director of the Justice Programme, to learn about public impact algorithms.

Sign up to the mailing list or follow the Open Knowledge Justice Programme on Twitter to receive regular updates.
 
csv.conf is happening again online on the 4th and 5th May 2021 and our team is involved in the organisation and running of the event.

Submit your talk proposals by 28th February via csvconf.com/submit.
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