Open Knowledge Foundation is a global non-profit organization focused on realizing open data's value to society by helping civil society groups access and use data to take action on social problems.
Yet the “human and organizational resistance to new practices and behaviors is significant, and the pressures to change philanthropic behavior are...more
ScraperWiki, the British startup website which enables people to write code to "scrape" sites for public data, has won a grant of $280000 from the Knight Foundation to help expand its...more
The proposed Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR) has UK civil society and social organizations stirred up this season. The supposed tax relief on investment in social impact bonds will support the UK social economy.