Slides from Denis Parfenov, Ambassador for Ireland at Open Knowledge Foundation at 'Maximising Digital Creativity, Sharing and Innovation', National Gallery of Ireland, January 2014. Event organised by Creative Commons Ireland and Faculty of Law, University College Cork. http://www.creativecommonsireland.org

1. Developing an Enabling Ecosystem
for Open Knowledge Society
National Gallery of Ireland, January 2014
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Denis Parfenov @okfirl[.org] / @prfnv[.org]
Ireland
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2. We are an global network working for since 2004 to
open up data and see it used to empower citizens and
organizations to answer questions that matter and
drive positive change

3. http://opendefinition.org/

5. What is Open Knowledge?
Open Knowledge is what Open Data & Content
become when they are made useful - accessible,
understandable, meaningful, with the capacity to
help someone to solve a real problem.

6. Why Open Knowledge?
Open Knowledge is empowering it enables us to understand and change
our world and our lives
The Open Knowledge culture of
collaboration, community and sharing
is a better and more fulfilling
way to learn, create and improve things

7. Create tools, skills and
communities
Data
=>
Knowledge & Insight

8. 3 E’s
Economy
Efficiency
Empowerment

9. Irish Data vs. UK Data
Ireland
United Kingdom
42nd in OKF Global Open Data Census 20131
29th in Open Data Barometer 20132
1st in OKF Global Open Data Census 20131
1st in Open Data Barometer 20132
Versus
http://census.okfn.org/country
http://www.opendataresearch.org/dl/odb2013/Open-Data-Barometer-2013-Global-Report.pdf

10. OKF Ireland
developing an enabling ecosystem to help
everyone to make
better informed, evidence-based decisions
with Open Knowledge

11. upply side

14. http://data.opendata.ie/

15. Meetup #12
Open Education
When: Thursday, 23d January 18:30
Where: Room 1.07, Western Gateway Building, UCC
Reg page: https://tito.io/open-data-ireland/meetup-12

16. Booksprint
When: Thursday, 22nd February 9:00
Where: TBC
Reg: https://tito.io/open-data-ireland/

17. http://okfirl.org/
http://opendata.ie/
http://data.opendata.ie/
http://okfn.org/