During the recent Open Government Partnership Summit in London in late October, I was interviewed by a tv-news crew from The Guardian about the strengths of open governance. The short clip can be seen below. Caption: Christian Villum of the Open Knowledge Foundation says the Open Government Partnership Summit is a good way to […] Read More…
. . These last few months I've been part of the spearheading of a very interesting project called the Open Data Index, based on another project titled the Open Data Census. Developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation, where I act as ao. International Community Manager for Open Government Data activities, the Open Data Census is […] Read More…
. By initiative of Niels Erik Kaaber Rasmussen, I've joined the efforts to start a Local Group of Open Knowledge Foundation in Denmark. We're a small group by now, but hopefully more members will join in the months to follow and help shape the path going forward. We'll begin by organizing some meetups and getting the […] Read More…
. These last few days - September 16-19 - I've been in Geneva with most of the other Open Knowledge Foundation staff to organize the world biggest event for open knowledge, the Open Knowledge Conference, with over 900 people attending from over 55 countries. The full program of the conference was chug full of sessions focusing […] Read More…
. During my recent visit in Paris to attend the OuiShare conference I was interviewed by Swedish National Radio, whose weekly show "Klotet" (Swedish for "Sphere") was focusing on sharing culture. This means I got a chance to practice my Swedish-Danish once again (I apologize to both languages for the abuse). Listen to the program […] Read More…
