News, industry reports and announcements.
We welcome new faces to the CKAN Tech Team, and say bye to two long-standing contributors
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DigitalFems, a non-profit organisation that promotes the presence of women in open-source communities, is opening a call for female and non-binary gender developers to contribute to CKAN.
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We stand in solidarity with our friends and colleagues in Ukraine, and hope that they remain safe and will soon be able to continue contributing to the project.
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This month's meetup hightlighted CHISPA.DATA: promoting transparency and accountability in Cali, Colombia. CHISPA.DATA isn’t just a publicly available platform for transparency in the city of Cali, Colombia (2.5 million residents), it is also a movement to communicate complex civic issues to the public in a comprehensive and easy-to-understand manner.
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This month’s CKAN Monthly Live highlighted the Hale & Hearty project: Creating a Knowledge Base to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in Ireland. Hale & Hearty provide a comprehensive Health & Wellbeing knowledge base, available as Open Data on the National Open Data Portal data.gov.ie.
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Get the latest fixes, as well as support for Solr 8 on CKAN 2.9
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This month’s CKAN Monthly Live highlighted The Pacific Data Hub - a central repository of reliable, current Pacific data. PDH provides authoritative data on a wide range of topics, from education, fisheries, and geoscience to energy, the environment and economic development.
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This month’s CKAN Monthly Live was about harmonising health data around the globe. We had Fjelltopp - a technical consultancy building and maintaining CKAN instances for the United Nations AIDS relief fund (UNAIDS) tak about the AIDS Data Repository project that aims to improve the quality, accessibility and consistency of HIV data and HIV estimates by providing a centralised platform with tools to help countries manage and share their HIV data.
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This month’s CKAN Monthly Live highlighted the Open Data Portal of The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA). Our speakers - Nick Greenley and Craig Anderson - told us more about the main challenges they stumbled upon when trying to make more of their data open, encourage use and re-use while protecting the confidentiality of patients and keeping their data
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