Saturday 22nd February is Open Data Day! There will be more than 110 events worldwide and there’s still time to get involved, see the online planning video for ways to participate and eaves.ca blog post for inspiration.

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 of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments.

The events are open to anyone: from curious citizens to journalists, tech-geeks to scientists, designers to data wranglers.

The Open Education Working Group is really keen to promote all the Open Data Day events relating to education, so we have a little list for you!

• The Open Knowledge Foundation Ireland are organizing a book sprint to create an open source and free to use textbook for schools that will help kids get coding and computing. A Dublin Hackathon is also being organised supported by Dublinked and Fingal Open Data, one of the projects they will be working on is tidying up the Higher education statistics for Republic of Ireland
• In the US the Open New York Forum’s Open Data Day will take the form of three tracks, one of which is Planning the future of NYC’s Internet access, Education Policy, Open Government, and Technology Industry Policy via the NY Tech Meetup. At North Carolina State University Triangle2014 also focuses on three issues: Open data education; hacking for civic good and uniting the triangle through data.
• At the Kathmandu2013 Hackathon “Tracing Foreign Aid to Nepal, how much aid is going to Education sector?” has been suggested as one of the problem statements
• In Bandung, Indonesia the World Bank Indonesia will hold a one-day workshop of open data for development in the Bandung Institute of Technology. Education will be one of the themes of the Open Data Idea Challenge.

Other countries with open education data themes include Holland, Canada and Ghana.

Have a great Open Data Day!