Involve citizens in open data through learning, peer networking and empowerment. Provide skills training to help citizens understand and use open data. Connect people locally and globally to share knowledge. Empower citizens by including them in initiatives that apply open data like social portals, mapping, and hackdays and app competitions.

1. OPEN DATATHROUGH LEARNING, PEER NETWORKING AND EMPOWERMENT
GETTING CITIZENS INVOLVED IN
CHRISTIAN VILLUM
@villum / @okfn
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3. Data are becoming
open - but how do
we make the most
of them?

5. Involve the citizens
Through learning, peer networking and
empowerment.

6. Learning
Give citizens the skills to use data

7. Turn data into knowledge

8. to
From
Turn data into knowledge

9. Providing context to open data

10. School of Data

11. School of Data

12. OKFN's Local Groups network

13. Open Data Handbook

14. Peer networking
Bring people together locally - and globally

15. OKFN's Working Groups network

16. OKFN's Local Groups network

17. OKFN's Local Groups network

18. OKFN's Local Groups network

19. OKFN's Local Groups network

20. Empowerment
Actively include and motivate citizens to
engage.

21. Social open data portals

22. Social open data portals

23. Mapping open government data

24. Creating economic transparency

25. Organizing hackdays and app competitions

26. Apps4Europe project

27. Involve the citizens
in making open data into knowledge

28. Join the OKFN global network
Local Group Spain
es.okcon.org

29. Open Knowledge Conference 2013
Geneva, Sept 17-18
www.okcon.org

30. Questions?
Christian Villum
christian.villum@okfn.org
@villum @okfn
okfn.org