Berlin, 5 April 2011,

(by Ton Zijlstra)

The annual Open Knowledge conference will take place in Berlin this year on June 30th and July 1st.

A Call for Proposals has been issued at http://okcon.org/2011/cfp/:

"Open knowledge promises significant social and economic benefits in areas ranging from governance to science, culture to technology.

How can we make more [government and other] data available, how can we connect it together, how can we use it to collaborate and share our work? We will explore these issues, and more, at OKCon 2011 in Berlin."

Proposals can be submitted at http://okcon.org/submit/ and are welcomed "on any aspect of creating, publishing or reusing content or data that is open in accordance with http://opendefinition.org. Topics include but are not limited to":

• Open Data Technology
• Open Science and Open Data in Academic Research
• Open Law, Society and Democracy
• Open Culture, Education and Commons Research

These four categories are specified in more detail in the call for proposals page http://okcon.org/2011/cfp/