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This month's meetup hightlighted CHISPA.DATA: promoting transparency and accountability in Cali, Colombia. CHISPA.DATA isn’t just a publicly available platform for transparency in the city of Cali, Colombia (2.5 million residents), it is also a movement to communicate complex civic issues to the public in a comprehensive and easy-to-understand manner.

This month’s CKAN Monthly Live highlighted The Pacific Data Hub - a central repository of reliable, current Pacific data. PDH provides authoritative data on a wide range of topics, from education, fisheries, and geoscience to energy, the environment and economic development.

This month’s CKAN Monthly Live was about harmonising health data around the globe. We had Fjelltopp - a technical consultancy building and maintaining CKAN instances for the United Nations AIDS relief fund (UNAIDS) tak about the AIDS Data Repository project that aims to improve the quality, accessibility and consistency of HIV data and HIV estimates by providing a centralised platform with tools to help countries manage and share their HIV data.

This month’s CKAN Monthly Live highlighted the Open Data Portal of The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA). Our speakers - Nick Greenley and Craig Anderson - told us more about the main challenges they stumbled upon when trying to make more of their data open, encourage use and re-use while protecting the confidentiality of patients and keeping their data

This first meetup was about connecting and refreshing the conversations around CKAN! We had a warm welcome from CKAN Project Co-Stewards Rufus Pollock and Steven De Costa. We kicked off the meeting with an introduction to CKAN, we talked about its website redesign, we touched upon what types of organizations use it and expanded on the use of data portals in corporate settings. We also explored the core CKAN feature set and its advantages as an extensible framework.

Effective data management is crucial for public administrations, who collect large amounts of diverse data on a daily basis. Open data, i.e. the provision of administrative data for public use and dissemination, is the cornerstone of open government.

CKAN Monthly Live - a series of monthly events to showcase CKAN to people - it’s #FreeToJoin and #OpenToEveryone. These virtual events are designed for end users, a space for our community to meet, get to know each other, and learn about uses and applications of CKAN. Each event includes multiple sessions and a live Q&A forum. Join our next meetup: it’s an opportunity to connect with the speakers, the other attendees and the whole CKAN community!