This document discusses why open data makes the author smile. Specifically, it smiles because open data allows for (1) ideas to be freely used, reused and redistributed; (2) people to build cool things together as a team; and (3) the formation of global communities around sharing information openly.

1. hello FROM
THE OPEN KNOWLEDGE
FOUNDATION.

2. i’m @kat_braybrooke,
community coordinator.
i’m here to explain
WHY OPEN DATA
MAKES ME SMILE.

3. WE ALL have a
digital
dream...

4. WE ALL believe
POWER
IN THE
of
“open.”

5. but what does OPEN
ACTUALLY MEAN?

6. maybe
OPENNESS
is explained
through
SMILING.
through seeing
things that we
find inspiring.

7. I LIKE TO SEE used, reused and
redistributed ideas.

8. I LIKE TO SEE PEOPLE
BUILDING COOL THINGS
AS A TEAM, TOGETHER.

9. OPEN SOURCE
HANDBOOKS
that explain how
to open up and
work with data.

10. PROJECTS THAT
UNLOCK
the Public Domain.

11. TOOLS THAT power datasets
and share government spending.

12. I LIKE TO SEE
PEOPLE BUILD
COMMUNITY.

13. A GROUP
about open
WORKING GROUPS
science.
from open science to open design.
(Researchers unite!)

14. LOCAL GROUPS
from Germany to
Australia, from
Brasil to Finland.

15. CONFERENCES AND CAMPS
that experiment with open initiatives,
international ideas and new collaborations.

16. A NEW GLOBAL
FESTIVAL in Helsinki...

17. WELCOME TO THE NETWORK!
tell us what makes @okfn
YOU smile: http://okfn.org