[euopendata] Welcome to Iceland and Norway!

Wed Jan 13 12:54:11 UTC 2010

Great stuff Hjalmar!
I'll certainly be back to you on several of those items, to get a bit more
info.

On a side-note, and as Iceland isn't all that populated: do you perhaps know
Smari McCarthy? I am involved with FabLab here in the Netherlands, and Smari
is part of the global network as well as running the Iceland FabLab. As he
is also involved in the .is society for Digital Freedoms FSFI, I though he
might be known to you.

best,

Ton

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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Hjalmar Gislason <hjalli at hjalli.com>wrote:

> Thanks Jonathan,
>
> Hello everybody.
>
> Just a quick introduction at this point. I'm the founder and CEO of a
> start-up company called DataMarket (http://datamarket.net/), located
> in Iceland. We are developing data services such as "The Icelandic
> Economy Data Market" (see:
> http://datamarket.net/request_data/icelandic_economy/). We also
> provide professional services in data aggregation, visualization and
> software development.
>
> I've been a vocal advocate for Open Data access in Iceland for more
> than two years now. I've been educating the media, government agencies
> and politicians about work such as OKFN, data.co.uk, data.gov, The
> Sunlight Foundation etc. As you may imagine, Iceland's spectacular
> economic crash has resulted in a wide-spread call for more
> transparency and less secrecy on all levels.
>
> Together with a small group of other Open Data nerds, I run a
> wiki-site called opingogn.net ("opin gögn" means "open data"), where
> we have translated the Open Definition, and are pulling together
> resources. Mainly links to various data sets and government agencies
> with commentary on their data access policies, whom to contact, etc.
>
> Some of my thoughts on Open Data can be found on my company's English
> language blog (http://blog.datamarket.net/). I think some of you might
> find my post on "brutal transparency" of particular interest:
>
> http://blog.datamarket.net/2009/08/26/iceland-restoring-trust-through-open-data-and-brutal-transparency/
>
> Unfortunately a lot of our work is in Icelandic only. This will change
> quite a lot in 2010, as we are trying to work a little more
> internationally.
>
> I look forward to participating in EU Open Data. Please don't hesitate
> to contact me if you have any further questions about Open Data in
> Iceland, DataMarket, the Icelandic Economy or the Northern Lights :)
>
> Best,
> Hjalmar Gislason
> Founder & CEO
> DataMarket
> M: +354 860 3800
> www.datamarket.net
> http://twitter.com/datamarket/
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
> wrote:
> > A big welcome to two new open data advocates: Hjalmar Gislason from
> > Iceland and Svein-Magnus Sørensen from Norway. Great to have you on
> > board guys!
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan Gray
> >
> > Community Coordinator
> > The Open Knowledge Foundation
> > http://www.okfn.org
> >
> > Twitter/Identica: jwyg
> >
>
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