Open Knowledge International Newsletter - April 2018

"April 2018 Issue

In our bi-monthly newsletter we update you on the latest news from on our projects, network activities and events. Probably most of you have been involved in this year's celebration of Open Data Day: a record amount of 406 events took place around the world! It was inspiring to see so much activity on the day itself also on social media, with over 10.000 tweets published on #OpenDataDay  (you can dive deeper into the data on our Labs blog). Following on the day we have been collecting and publishing reports of events funded through our mini-grants scheme. This year, each grantee was paired up with another grantee, which resulted in diverse blogs reporting on each of the four themes of this year from different angles. You can read up on them here.

In mid-April we participated in the Creative Commons Summit to talk about everything open. We co-hosted a session about the "State of Open Licenses" where we advocated for steps forward to reduce the number of open licenses in use. There were interesting conversations about the ‘Big Open’, or how the various open communities can work together more effectively. We started putting this in practice when we discussed OpenGLAM initiatives, and agreed that we would like to bring the community initiatives of the Open Knowledge network, Creative Commons and Wikimedia closer together. We would love to hear from you as well, so join the discussion on our mailing list.  If you would like to hear more, have a listen to the interview with Sander van der Waal that was recorded at the CC Summit."