Advancing in consolidating an open data community and practitioners in South America – Open Knowledge International Blog

"This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2018. On Saturday 3 March, groups from around the world organised over 400 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open data. 45 events received additional support through the Open Knowledge International mini-grants scheme, funded by Hivos, SPARC, Mapbox, the Hewlett Foundation and the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office. The events in this blog were supported through the mini-grants scheme under the Open Science and Equal Development themes.

After almost 5 years of working in the open data movement, it feels like we have come to a crossroads. We are now wondering if we should continue working on creating more generalistic open data or if we need to start opening with specific topics in mind. The reality is that we need to pursue doing both. A very good example of these two approaches are the Open Data Day events that happened in São Paulo and Quito this year. Here we narrate both events highlighting our learnings and outcomes.  

Dados e Feminicídios (Data and Femicides)

Femicides is a great problem in Latin America and in Brazil the numbers are worrisome. According to a study made in 2015, Brazil occupies the 5th place in the world with the highest index of femicides in the world. Because of this, we decided to work on open data from a Femicides perspective. To present our work and kick-off a collaboration with publishers and users of data relating to femicides we choose the Open Data Day...."