Bloggers, hackers, designers, statisticians and other citizens who are interested in Open Data and Transparency will gather online and offline for the International Open Data Day [2] on February 22, 2014. The event takes place to encourage governmental data openness.
Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments.
Anyone can organize a local event in their city as long as the event is open for others to join. The attendees can participate in creating anything related to Open Data, be it with local or global applications, visualizations, scraping data from a government website to make it available for others or even organize a series of workshops with government officials, journalists or other stakeholders affected by open data.
The hashtag that will be used for the even is, #ODD2014 [3]. Some Twitter users have already started posting their comments on the hashtag.
#OpenData [4] Day is community powered in a timezone near you. http://t.co/ImmMztmcUM [5] #ODD2014 [6] it's gonna be on 22 Feb so mark your calendar!
— Clarice Africa (@ClariceAfrica) February 10, 2014 [7]
Dozens of cities are participating in the hackathon.
Announcements are also made on Twitter for local events in different places.
يوم البيانات المفتوحة – مصر http://t.co/PdqDzokxcP [9] #ODD2014 [6]
— Yamen Bousrih (@yamenbousrih) February 9, 2014 [10]
The Open Data Day in Egypt, http://t.co/PdqDzokxcP [11]
Anything going on in #Cambodia [12] for #ODD2014 [6] ? http://t.co/YQwaz5ETkM [13] @s_channe [14]
— Philippe Ceulen (@pceulen) February 5, 2014 [15]
Hurray! Welcome @antoniocuga [16] and Peru to Open Data Day 2014 – #ODD14 [17] #ODD2014 [6]
— HeatherLeson (@HeatherLeson) February 3, 2014 [18]
Apparently the crew in Japan has decided they are going to OWN #opendata [19] day 2014 #odd2014 [20] http://t.co/IN8gE0dZun [21]
— David Eaves (@daeaves) December 19, 2013 [22]
Add your city to the list [23] if it is not already there, and start planning for a local event there.