Workshop: Civil Society 2.0: how open data will change your organisation and what you can do about it (2011)

Presentations and blog posts from the workshop

• David Kane's blog post: "Open data at the Annual Conference"

Workshop description:

Listen to David Kane talk about open data and what it might mean for your organisation.

Open data is any content, information or data that people are free to use, re-use and redistribute — without any legal, technological or social restriction.

The move by local and central government to put all of the information that they store about us, finances, projects and services online is set to radically transform the way in which the UK is governed and the way in which our services our delivered.

This may be a bold claim, but the opening up of government-held data is a central aspect of the Big Society agenda and is already shaping the way we interact with services and how civil society holds government to account. This is an agenda with implications for the short and long term: transparency, accountability and co-production are just some of the issues.

Civil Society 2.0 will set out how open data is already reshaping service delivery and campaigning in the UK and beyond. This workshop will explore what the implications of open data are, and what your organisation can do about it.

Speakers: (from left to right)

Hadley Beeman a leading proponent of the gov 2.0 agenda, @hadleybeeman
Dr Rufus Pollock Director, Open Knowledge Foundation  @rufuspollock
Rich Watts Director of Policy and Development Corporate Services, ecdp, @rich_w
David Kane Research Development Officer, NCVO @kanedr

Speaker Biographies

Further reading:

• What does open data mean?
• Opening up government
• Opportunities and challenges
• Voluntary sector, social care and the Big Society
• Transparency and data at ecdp
• Voluntary Sector Datastore
• Get the data
• A year of data.gov.uk

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