Shuttleworth Highlights for April 2011

As part of my Shuttleworth Fellowship I’m preparing monthly highlights of Fellowship-related activity.

Talks, Events and Posts

• Building the (Open) Data Ecosystem
• Data Hubs, Data Management Systems and CKAN
• Talk at UKSG Annual Conference on Open Bibliography
• Talk at REPUBLICA on Open Data

Projects

• Open Government Data:

  • #opendata: New Film about Open Government Data
  • The Open Data Challenge – a pan-European open data competition

• CKAN Software and CKAN Sites

  • Lots of improvements to the software – check out the CKAN.org blog
  • One personal contribution: Improved Resource Preview

• Where Does My Money Go? / Open Spending

  • Italy in OpenSpending - Where Does Italy’s Money Go?
  • EU Budget and EC Financial Transparency System Finances in OpenSpending
  • Many other countries in process including Argentina
  • Work on OpenSpending Import Format etc

• Open Economics Working Group

  • YourTopia - Development beyond GDP - Yourtopia wins 3rd prize at World Bank Contest

• Planning next steps for Open Data Manual

• OKCon coming together - OKCon Preview