Jonathan is Director of Policy and Ideas at the Open Knowledge Foundation, an award winning not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting open data, open content and the public domain in a variety of different fields.
In this role coordinates the Foundation’s policy, advocacy and outreach activities to expand the open knowledge commons and helps to catalyse new projects and collaborations that use this commons to improve the world.
He has helped to start numerous initiatives at the Foundation, including the Data Journalism Handbook, Europe’s Energy, the Open Data Challenge, the #opendata film, OpenGLAM, OpenSpending, the Panton Fellowships and The Public Domain Review.
He is an irregular contributor to the Guardian and has been interviewed by numerous publications about his work, including La Repubblica, O’Reilly Radar, and Zeit Online.
To see what he is doing at the Open Knowledge Foundation you can follow @jwyg on Twitter or see his Open Knowledge Notebook.
