This year’s Open Government Data Camp and Open Knowledge Conference are joining to form a week-long celebration: the Open Knowledge Festival! This pioneering event will include a full week of lectures, seminars, workshops, hackathons, coding jams, and interactive sessions that will bring together individuals and organizations from a wide variety of backgrounds to exchange ideas, make things and meet new people. OKFest will also highlight the diversity of Helsinki’s open knowledge communities to a new international audience, with a specific effort to encourage the participation of representatives from Nordic nations. OKFest is now looking for ideas about potential sessions, satellite events, topics and other collaborations.

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