About us:Greece loves open knowledge. We are a National Group of professors, hackers, programmers, government and civil society representatives who came together to create the Hellenic chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation. Please browse our Vision, Blog and About pages for more information.If you participate in an organization that manages public data, you can read the open data handbook (in Greek) and promote their openness in the most optimal manner |
Good news: OKFN Greece after 1,5 year becomes an official chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation! During this time OKFN organized various meet-ups. The second one was a real breakthrough for OKFN:Greece, as the group had the honour to have Mrs. Braybrook invited as the OKFN’s representative as well as Dr. Soren Auer, coordinator of [...]
This Saturday 23/03 I had the chance, to attend the “Apps for Ghent” event organized by the chapter of Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium and other partners (the City of Ghent, iMinds, Ghent Web Valley and Ghent Living lab). The event was organized in a fitting combination of speeches and inspiration sessions related to Open Data in [...]
Public open data is becoming a first priority for governments around Europe and the US. OKFN Greece has developed and now hosts the Greek open data hub. The data hub integrates OKFN’s open source data cataloging software, CKAN which is also the basis of the UK, the European and the US portals. The Greek open [...]
Have a look what happened today in history Nowadays, the scientific world becomes familiar with the concept of interconnected data and new possibilities are given to developers. Wikipedia is an online, open encyclopedia. It contains a large amount of information, which is only loosely structured and, as a result, if somebody wants to find anything [...]
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