From PSI to open data – LAPSI is ready for a new round of legal questions
Katleen Janssen - June 10, 2013 in Open Government Data, WG EU Open Data, WG Open Government Data


Katleen Janssen - June 10, 2013 in Open Government Data, WG EU Open Data, WG Open Government Data
Mark Wainwright - February 25, 2013 in ckan, Open Data, WG EU Open Data, WG Open Government Data
More data will become available as the Commission’s services adapt their data management and licensing policies and make machine-readable formats the rule. Our ambition is to make an open licence applicable across the board for all datasets in the portal. Furthermore, in 2013, an overarching pan-European aggregator for open data should federate the content of more than 70 existing open data portal initiatives in the Member States at national, regional or local level.We’re looking forward to helping make it happen.
Theodora Middleton - February 21, 2013 in OKF Greece, OKFN Local, Open Government Data, WG EU Open Data, WG Open Government Data
“Open data is a very powerful lever for both a better economy and society. Open data is fuel for innovation, it is a tool for transparency, for better government and policy. At a time when many Greeks are looking for new sources of inspiration and hope, I am pleased to say that the Open Knowledge Foundation is one of those sources. I encourage all public bodies to support this effort. Whether the task is finding a job or spending tax money wisely, open data can help.”Here, here!
Theodora Middleton - January 22, 2013 in Events, Open Government Data, WG EU Open Data, WG Open Government Data
Regards Citoyens - December 3, 2012 in Access to Information, Campaigning, Europe, Open Data, open formats, Open Government Data, Open Standards, Open/Closed, Policy, PSI, Regards Citoyens, WG EU Open Data, WG Open Government Data
« An open format is one that is platform independent, machine readable, and made available to the public without legal, technical or financial restrictions that would impede the re-use of that information. »This amendment was adopted, meaning this change will be proposed as a new amendment to all MEPs during the plenary debate. Given that it has the support of the rapporteur in the name of the responsible committee, it stands a good chance of being carried. Regarding the open development process condition, MEP Amelia Andersdotter, shadow rapporteur for the European Parliament Greens group, maintained and adapted to this new definition her amendment 65:
« "open format" means that the format’s specification is maintained by a not-for-profit organisation the membership of which is not contingent on membership fees; its ongoing development occurs on the basis of an open decision-making procedure available to all interested parties; the format specification document is available freely; the intellectual property of the standard is made irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis. »Even though it also got recommanded for approval by the main rapporteur, unfortunately the ALDE and EPP groups were not ready to support it yet and it got rejected. Watching the 12 seconds during which the Open Formats issues were voted is a strange experience to anyone not familiar with the European Parliament, since most of the actual debate happens beforehand between the different rapporteurs, the committee meeting mainly consists of a succession of raised hand votes calls, which are occasionally electronically checked. Therefore, there are no public individual votes or records of these discussions available and the vote happens very quickly.
Theodora Middleton - November 22, 2012 in COMMUNIA, Open Access, Policy, Public Domain, WG EU Open Data
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog - October 1, 2012 in Featured Project, Open Government Data, WG EU Open Data, WG Open Government Data
Jonathan Gray - September 26, 2012 in Featured, Featured Project, Open Data, WG EU Open Data, Working Groups
Launching on the 2012 European Day of Languages, languageknowledge.eu is a new website that visualizes language knowledge in Europe based on the latest European Commisson survey data, published this summer in the “Europeans and their languages” Eurobarometer. The interactive website allows visitors to find out which languages are most widely known in Europe, by country, age groups, and see the split between native speakers and people who learnt the language later in life. Visitors can also pick any language to see in which countries that language is most popular. Here are a few interesting insights:Choose any country or language on languageknowledge.eu to discover language knowledge statistics for your own place of living or mother-tongue.
- German, English and Italian are the largest mother-tongues in Europe.
- English, French and German are the largest foreign languages in Europe.
- Italy, Spain, Czech Republic and Hungary are the countries where young people speak the least English.
- Some 41% of young people in Europe speak English, and 21% speak German and French.
- Zoom in on older people, and those figures are 25%, 23% and 18% respectively.
- The top foreign languages in Poland, where the bulk of the European Day of Languages festivities are taking place, are English, German and Russian. If you zoom in on older people, the order is reversed to Russian, German and English.
- Outside of Poland, the countries with the largest shares of Polish speakers are Lithuania, Ireland and Germany.
- There are three countries in Europe where Russian is known by more than 40% of the population: the 3 Baltic States.
Tim Davies - August 10, 2012 in Open Data, Open Government Data, WG Development, WG EU Open Data, WG Open Government Data
Stefan Candea - July 5, 2012 in Data Journalism, Events, External, Sprint / Hackday, WG EU Open Data