Check our action plan for 2023 or read some highlights of OKFI’s accomplishments.
MyData
MyData has become the de facto standard for activities around personal data and its use. OKFI started the annual MyData conferences and in the fall of 2018, coordinated the creation of MyData Global ry, the first ever global NGO based in Finland and Finnish law.
Online courses for open data
We produced and published courseware for two courses, one for publishers of open data, and one for reusers of open data. We also conducted massive open only courses on one of them.
Freedom of information service: tietopyynto.fi
We created and keep hosting tietopyynto.fi, which anyone can use to send data requests based on the Freedom of Information Act to any public official in Finland.
Finnish standard on open licenses
Finnish public sector institutes are guided by a set of official recommendations. Our representatives were involved in the working group that created JHS 189, The license for using open data in 2014. This recommendation posits Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 and Creative Commons Zero as the two licenses to use when Finnish public sector publishes open datasets.
Master classes on open data publication
We created two parallel master classes, one for the GLAM sector and one for the public sector. The materials are published openly and the courses were completed successfully.
Digirights online course
As the GDPR was happening, we produced a massive open online course for citizens to know their new privacy rights. In Finnish at digioikeudet.info and in English at digirights.info.
Hackathons
We’ve organized numerous hackathons such as Hack4FI, Demokratiahack and Perustulohack.
Annual reports
Open Knowledge Finland ry’s annual reports from all fiscal periods:
