All posts with tag "ckan monthly live"

This first meetup was about connecting and refreshing the conversations around CKAN! We had a warm welcome from CKAN Project Co-Stewards Rufus Pollock and Steven De Costa. We kicked off the meeting with an introduction to CKAN, we talked about its website redesign, we touched upon what types of organizations use it and expanded on the use of data portals in corporate settings. We also explored the core CKAN feature set and its advantages as an extensible framework.

This month’s CKAN Monthly Live highlighted Joel Natividad - CEO and Co-founder at DatHere speaking about DataTables View: a modern resource view for tabular data.

This month’s CKAN Monthly Live highlighted the Open Data Portal of The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA). Our speakers - Nick Greenley and Craig Anderson - told us more about the main challenges they stumbled upon when trying to make more of their data open, encourage use and re-use while protecting the confidentiality of patients and keeping their data

This month’s CKAN Monthly Live was about harmonising health data around the globe. We had Fjelltopp - a technical consultancy building and maintaining CKAN instances for the United Nations AIDS relief fund (UNAIDS) tak about the AIDS Data Repository project that aims to improve the quality, accessibility and consistency of HIV data and HIV estimates by providing a centralised platform with tools to help countries manage and share their HIV data.

This month’s CKAN Monthly Live highlighted The Pacific Data Hub - a central repository of reliable, current Pacific data. PDH provides authoritative data on a wide range of topics, from education, fisheries, and geoscience to energy, the environment and economic development.

This month’s CKAN Monthly Live highlighted the Hale & Hearty project: Creating a Knowledge Base to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in Ireland. Hale & Hearty provide a comprehensive Health & Wellbeing knowledge base, available as Open Data on the National Open Data Portal data.gov.ie.

This month's meetup hightlighted CHISPA.DATA: promoting transparency and accountability in Cali, Colombia. CHISPA.DATA isn’t just a publicly available platform for transparency in the city of Cali, Colombia (2.5 million residents), it is also a movement to communicate complex civic issues to the public in a comprehensive and easy-to-understand manner.

This month’s CKAN Monthly Live highlighted the Hale & Hearty project: Creating a Knowledge Base to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in Ireland. Hale & Hearty provide a comprehensive Health & Wellbeing knowledge base, available as Open Data on the National Open Data Portal data.gov.ie.

In this blog post, we recap the enlightening discussion from our June 2023 CKAN Monthly Meetup, where Open Africa's lead, Emma Kisa, debunked myths about Africa's data scarcity and illuminated how her organization is harnessing the power of open data. Unravel how Open Africa, leveraging the robust capabilities of the CKAN platform, is liberating data from its physical confines and creating a unified, accessible repository.

Our July 2023 CKAN Monthly Live Meetup #19 presented an exclusive deep-dive into the comprehensive work of the POSE Project. Focused on strengthening the CKAN ecosystem, the team has been conducting a thorough analysis of data, engaging in insightful interviews, and hosting participatory workshops, all with the aim to improve CKAN's effectiveness as an open data, open government, and open science platform. This webinar provided a unique opportunity to delve into their preliminary findings.

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Discover how the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is using CKAN to streamline humanitarian data management, improve collaboration, and enhance data accessibility for field teams across 40+ countries.

The second CKAN Extensions Demo Day brought another round of focused, real-world solutions for CKAN-based data portals. Each extension demo tackled persistent challenges—from upload validation and custom data listings to cloud-scale performance and system diagnostics.

Explore how the Transport Data Commons, powered by CKAN, is transforming transport data from siloed PDFs into a global, interoperable, and reusable knowledge base—especially for low-emission mobility in the Global South.