Reflections on Open Data Camp

Over the weekend of 21st – 22nd October, the UK Open Data Camp bandwagon rolled into town and ‘pitch’ed up at Queen’s University Belfast’s Computer Science Building.

Open Data Camp is run by a group of extremely enthusiastic volunteers from both the public and private sector in the UK. They were enticed to Belfast by the OpenDataNI team in the Department of Finance who formed the local organising team.

The Camp followed an ‘unconference’ format which is based around collaboration and peer-to-peer learning, giving everyone a chance to lead or just participate in a discussion on a topic related to open data.