Get Involved/Open Government and Democracy

if you are passionate about government transparency, there are countless ways that you can get involved with the Open Knowledge network. Whether you are a member of civil society, a government employee or a civic hacker help us make governments all over the world are efficient, effective and transparent.

Open Government
Over the past decade, the Open Knowledge network has been a pioneer in open government around the world. Together, we have created global momentum through our events and activities including the first ever convening of interested parties at the 2010 Open Government Data Camp. You can get involved by joining our Working Group on Open Government Data, building open source software to support government data release (CKAN and OpenSpending) or helping us determine how open government data really is through the Open Data Census.

Open Spending
Join the Open Spending community to help map public financial information. Whether you want to code, wrangle data or help translate, we are all looking for help grow!
 * Get Started Here
 * Want to Code? Help build and run the OpenSpending platform
 * Want to wrangle data? Prepare and load data into OpenSpending or help others do so!

Open Government Data Working Group
Made up of civic hackers, civil servants and civil society groups, the open government data working is the place to go to find out whats happening in the Open government data space. Our monthly calls feature lightening talks from experts from around the world. We are currently revamping the group and launching a community survey to find out more about who we are, where we are from, what we do and how the group can help us unlock more government data faster!
 * Join the Mailing List
 * Join the Monthly Talk or Email us at getinvolved [at] okfn.org if you want to give a talk. Monthly Call on 1st Thursday of every month month at 16:00 UTC / 17:00 BST / 18:00 CEST via Google Hangout.

Open Legislation Working Groups

 * Help assess the state of judicial and legislative data around the world by contributing to the Open Lax Index