New Logo and Identity for Open Knowledge by johnson banks
Established in 2004 in Cambridge, UK, Open Knowledge is a worldwide non-profit network of people that advocate and campaign for the open release of information, particularly at national or large scale, and who monitor the level of openness worldwide. They are the organization behind CKAN, the leading open-source data portal platform where other governments and organizations can host and organize their data, and the Open Data Index, that tracks which countries have open data sets in different categories. Earlier this year, Open Knowledge introduced a new identity designed by London-based johnson banks. [The identity] was sourced directly from the data collected in one of their landmark projects, the Global Open Data Index. We extrapolated the symbol directly from the datasets of the then 72