Sara Petti
Sara leads the Open Knowledge Network, which brings together experts of the open movement globally. The Network's main focus is the intersection of tech and democracy. Sara also supports open source and open data communities, and is passionate about all issues linked to community care and health, like governance. Before joining Open Knowledge Foundation, she was part of a project advocating for public libraries to be on the EU agenda (notably for the review of the Copyright Directive), and was part of the team that grew Khan Academy in French. She has an ongoing research project about pottery masters from her small village in the South of Italy, which she is slowly but surely bringing on Wikipedia too.
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People spend much more time than they would like cleaning datasets from errors, and don’t have the technical skills to accelerate/automatise that work. How to help non-tech communities work with better data and spend less time doing this tedious job?
Open Data Editor is a lightweight desktop application helping people spot mistakes in their datasets. It works offline and runs smoothly on any kind of hardware, making it ideal for lower resource countries.
We are currently piloting the application with small organisations from around the world, so instead of the usual demo we propose a return on experience and genuine discussion about ODE with the organisations that have actually integrated it in their work.
ODE is developed in the framework of The Tech We Want initiative, Open Knowledge's effort to reimagine how technology is built and used, so that is more useful, simple and long-lasting.