Open Knowledge Conference

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The Open Knowledge Conference (also known as OKCon) is an annual event organized by the UK-based Open Knowledge Foundation. It is dedicated to the discussion of emerging approaches to transparency and openness in all sectors of society.

History

In October 2005, the Open Knowledge Foundation (founded in 2004) co-organized the 5th World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures in London, where topics ranged from free soft- and hardware to open licenses, open geodata and open knowledge. On this foundation, an Open Knowledge Conference has been held in London each spring since March 2007.

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The first Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon 1.0) was themed "Atomisation and Commercial Opportunity" and dealt with the diversification of formats in which information is presented on the World Wide Web, and with licensing issues derived from that. Since then, the range of topics covered in the program has widened to include open approaches to government, data, research, innovation as well as bibliographies, Linked data and the Semantic Web.

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