Open Knowledge and MyData – same roots, shared values
Viivi Lähteenoja - November 10, 2020 in Events, OK Finland, Open Data, Open Knowledge, personal-data, Talks
Viivi Lähteenoja - November 10, 2020 in Events, OK Finland, Open Data, Open Knowledge, personal-data, Talks
Open Knowledge Finland - December 12, 2018 in OK Finland, personal-data
Erhan Bayram - December 7, 2018 in financial transparency, finland, Latvia, network, OK Finland, OK Sweden, Open Data, Sweden
Open Knowledge Finland - October 19, 2018 in Featured, mydata, OK Finland, personal-data
Aleksi Knuutila - November 16, 2017 in Freedom of Information, OK Finland, open politics, Transparency
Open Knowledge Finland - August 2, 2017 in community, network, OK Finland, Open Knowledge
Open Knowledge Finland - May 3, 2017 in network, OK Finland, Open Knowledge
Our goal is to produce data visualisations, that concisely indicate connections between the visitors and the drafting of laws. We also aim to produce a short report about practical experiences and challenges in the systematic gathering of information based on freedom of information requests.
Open Knowledge Finland - December 6, 2016 in Featured, Frictionless Data, OK Finland, Open Spending
See the whole dataset here: http://next.openspending.org/viewer/.
Our proposal to use OpenSpending to present government fiscal data was selected as the winner of the hack. We are going to work with the government in the near future to implement OpenSpending in Finland. Also, we plan to train a number of users to create fiscal packages and publish them.Mor Rubinstein - October 18, 2016 in network, OK Finland, Open Knowledge
What is MyData? One of the terms that were thrown in the air was “The Internet of Me.” At first, this sounds to me a very millennial description (which brings, for me at least, a bad connotation). Lucie Burgess, from The Digital Catapult, shed a different light on the term. This, in her view, means that we put people, not companies or technical terms, at the center of the internet. To me, it reminded me of Evgeny Morozov’s concept of ‘Internet-centric’ – when we give the term ‘The internet’ life of its own. When we give the internet life, we sometimes forget that humans are creating it actively, and other parts of the net are passive, like the data that we provide to companies just by using their services. We forget that the internet is what it is because of us. The ‘Internet of Me’ puts the ordinary citizen at the heart of that beast we call ”the internet”. It is a decentralized shift, the idea that we can control our data, our information. Lucie about Internet of me:“The borders between ‘My Data’, private data, and public data are sometimes blurry and undefined, and there is a need for regulation and open debate about these issues.”
I also met members from Open Knowledge chapters in Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, and Germany. They came to share their experiences but, also to learn about the different opportunities of MyData. For me, it is always good to catch up with chapters and see their point of view on various topics. Here are some useful insights I got from Walter Palmetshofer from OKF DE, who started to think about MyData concept already in 2011. We discussed what we want to do with our data and the question of privacy and the willingness too, of people to share and to create open data from private data. More of my conversation with Walter here All in all, I am grateful for the opportunity I had to go and learn at MyData 2016. It gave me a different perspective on my usual work on open data and open government and allowed me to explore the internet for me. This is, I hope, just the beginning, and I would like to see what other members of the network have to say about this topic. A big thank you to the members of Open Knowledge Finland and in particular Salla Thure, who hosted me so well and helped me to find my way around the conference. Special thanks also to Jo Barratt, Open Knowledge International’s own audio guru for editing my interviews. Watch this space for his audio blog post from the GODAN summit!“We discussed what we want to do with our data and the question of privacy and the willingness too of people to share and to create open data from private data.”
Open Knowledge Finland - October 4, 2016 in network, OK Finland