The Open Knowledge Festival, 17th – 22nd September 2012, is a bold experiment in international collaborative event organising, with topics from open democracy and government data to open and smart cities to open business and corporate data to open design and open hardware to data journalism. You can look forward to a full week of participatory sessions, keynote lectures, workshops, hackathons and satellite events in Helsinki.

The main organisers of the event are the Open Knowledge Foundation, Aalto Media Factory and the Finnish Institute in London.