Other Organizations
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Listing of other organizations and individuals interested in, or working on, open knowledge issues (including those affiliated with the OKF). Please put contact details and a summary of the organization's/individual's activity.
Organizations
Affiliated
| Linux Centre | free software training, translation & dissemination; open access to information and knowledge; human rights in cyberspace: legal and political aspects |
| Free Culture UK | |
| Public Geodata | working on publicly available data for GIS |
| OSGeo | concentrating in open source tools for geospatial work |
In Contact With
| Alexandria Archive | Interested in open archaeology |
| AMEE | attempts to provide "personalized answers to millions of environmental questions" |
| CJD Alliance | a community interested in diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) |
| COMMUNIA | |
| COST A32 | |
| Creative Commons (Global, UK) | |
| dbpedia | Extracting structured data from Wikipedia |
| datalibre.ca | urging governments to make data about canada and canadians free and accessible to citizens |
| Dropping Knowledge | |
| ePSIplus | |
| Free Culture US | |
| Free Our Data | UK campaign set up by the Guardian |
| iCommons | |
| Internet Archive | |
| JISC | |
| Knowledge Politics | "think-tank dedicated to exploring the implications and possibilities of the development of an ‘information society’, and to influencing the debate over its meaning and future." |
| http://www.libre.org/fkf Free Knowledge Foundation (FKF) | |
| Local Government Asset Management | wiki set up to allow Australian Councils share Asset Management Information |
| http://www.openstreetmap.org/ OpenStreetMap (OSM) | |
| http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/ OAK law project | |
| OPSI | |
| Open Library | |
| Open Knowledge Society, Kerala | |
| http://pleiades.stoa.org/ Pleiades | ancient geodata |
| http://www.public-domain.org/ Union for the Public Domain | |
| Science Commons | Publishing (open access), licensing, data (Neuro Commons) |
| SPARC | |
| Wikimedia Foundation | |
| WorkNets | a culture of, by and for independent thinkers |
To Contact
| Open Archaeology |
| iBiblio |
| Center for the Public Domain |
| Digital Future Coalition |
Other
| OpenEI |
| http://web.mit.edu/cet/strategy/commons.html |
| Open Sustainable Learning Opportunities (OSLO) Group |
Individuals
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- Chris Armbruster (Innovation study of knowledge overlay services based on open source, open content and open access, Berlin, Germany) - http://ssrn.com/author=434782 (for research articles and reports). Also Founder and Executive Director of the Research Network 1989 (EastWest flow of knowledge) - http://www.cee-socialscience.net/1989/ (homepage). For contact: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisarmbruster
- Jordan Hatcher, lawyer and legal consultant conducting the study Usage of Creative Commons by cultural heritage organisations and working on an open data licence.
