Excellent news. Great signal too!

Kudos,

Lodewijk

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 7:00 AM Eric Luth <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We – Wikimedia Sverige – put together a brief translation on Diff
> <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/07/19/statistics-sweden-adopts-cc0-license-for-open-data/>,[1]
> of an article where we help Statistics Sweden
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_Sweden>, the Swedish government
> agency responsible for national statistics, announce that they have marked
> all their open data with CC0.
>
> This means of course that their open data can be imported to Wikidata.
> They are responsible for data on, among other things, population,
> demographics, economics, politics, education, geography, etc. We have just
> started looking together with them on what to prioritize for Wikidata. One
> area where we are looking into possibilities for collaboration is around
> data on the global goals, as Statistics Sweden is responsible for most of
> this data. It will be interesting to explore how to, where possible, model
> such data on Wikidata.
>
> We will also use this piece of news to urge more government agencies in
> Sweden to adopt CC0. Perhaps this can also encourage conversations with
> statistical agencies in other countries?
>
> Best,
> *Eric Luth*
> Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
> Advocacy
> Wikimedia Sverige
> [email protected]
> +46 (0) 765 55 50 95
>
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>
> [1]
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/07/19/statistics-sweden-adopts-cc0-license-for-open-data/
> <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/07/19/statistics-sweden-adopts-cc0-license-for-open-data/>
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