In November 2022, Open Knowledge Sweden started a project to support mobile EU citizens, i.e. Europeans settling in another Member State to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis. Mobile citizens are today underrepresented when it comes to voting in local and European elections and the project therefore aims at supporting and encouraging […]
We – Open Knowledge Sweden and the Latvian NGO MyVoice – have just concluded the project “Open Cities for EU Citizens” (OpenCit) but we are already planning a follow-up. The OpenCit project supported mobile EU citizens with information about the rights to participate in the European Parliament and municipal elections, gave EU citizens living in […]
Open Knowledge Sweden together with the NGO Mana Balss (My Voice in English) in Latvia and with Belarusian partners has concluded the project “Open data for civic participation”. The goal of the project was to exchange knowledge and experiences between NGOs in Sweden, Latvia and Belarus about the availability and the use of the open […]
Vi har publicerat fallstudier om öppna data i Sverige, genomförd som en del av projektet Open data for civic participation finansierat av Nordiska ministerrådets program för NGO-samarbete i Östersjöregionen. Fallstudien analyserar läget för öppna data i Sverige och tittar på tre fall av dataaktivism: Trafiklab – en öppen plattform för innovation inom svensk kollektivtrafik. Skjutsgruppen– […]
The final version of the brief that was initially drafted in October 2021 i out. Special thanks to Jonathan Crusoe, Daniel Dersén, Sumbat Daniel Sarkis, Per Hagström for valuable contributions! The aim of the brief, and of the interviews that lead up to it, was to carry out awareness-raising and to engage stakeholders in discussions […]
Open Knowledge Sweden joins new project to foster the development of digital tools to fight corruption in the Nordic-Baltic region Photo by Adrian Trinkaus on Unsplash Open Knowledge Sweden is partnering in a new project funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Latvia and led by Transparency International Latvia, called “Harnessing digital tools […]
Data produced by the public sector constitutes a comprehensive and valuable resource that can benefit society as a whole. The value of just a minor share of all the data available – so called high-value open data – is estimated to be SEK 10-21 billion per year for Sweden. At the same time, several open […]
Offentlighetsprincipen gör det möjligt! Har du någonsin funderat över hur mycket pengar din kommun betalade för den där nya byggnaden i staden? Eller kanske har du läst en nyhetsartikel om en myndighets arbete och funderat på de omständigheter och fakta som ligger bakom artikeln? Kanske är du intresserad av en fastighet i närheten av ditt […]
Nu startar projektet Open Up! som ska öppna upp data om offentliga upphandlingar i Sverige. Projektets mål är att ta fram en prototyp för en plattform där användare kan visualisera och analysera upphandlingsdata. Parallellt med detta ska samma data bli tillgängliga via dataportal.se. Trots att det är lag i Sverige på att fakturor som ställs […]
Sweden needs better coordination, skills and concrete incentives to drive the work on open data forward The assessment of Sweden’s commitments in the framework of the Open Government Partnership (OGP)* has just been published. The assessment shows that Sweden’s third OGP action plan led to greater access to public service information. However, Alina Östling, the […]
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