Australian Government
The Australian Government uses CKAN to make available public data from over 800 different organisations.
Government of Canada
Tens of thousands of datasets making Canada's governmental data more accessible to everyone.
Singapore Government
The Singapore Government uses CKAN as an open data portal for economic, education, environment, finance, and health data.
openAFRICA
The openAFRICA initiative aims to be the largest repository of open data from across the African continent. The initiative, run by civic tech and data journalism organisation Code for Africa, works to make diverse datasets more accessible with support from the World Bank and Google.
Open Data Denmark
Open Data DK is an association of Danish municipalities and regions that since 2016 have collaborated to open their data, i.a. on a common open data portal.
Helsinki Region
The Helsinki Region Infoshare (HRI) has over 900 datasets. The site has Finnish and English versions, and gives a comprehensive and diverse outlook on a variety of urban phenomena, such as living conditions, economics and well-being, employment and transport.
United States Government
The US government announced in January 2013 that they were moving to CKAN for their open data catalogue, combining datasets previously published in different places. The relaunch went live in May 2013.
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The sheer flexibility and modular nature of CKAN really sets it apart.
Doug Young Data Cluster Coordinator at Scottish Cities Alliance
Energi Data Service
Energi Data Service is a free and open data portal where anyone can get data about the Danish energy system such as CO2 emissions and consumption and production data.
Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX)
The Humanitarian Data Exchange uses CKAN as a feature that essentially allows organisations working with sensitive data sets to give visibility to their work without sharing the actual data.
National Grid ESO Data Portal
The Electricity System Operator Data Portal (ESO) is one of the main custodians of energy data in Great Britain.
LEGO®
The office of the CIO for LEGO Group looked to CKAN to implement a proof of concept internal Data Hub as the basis for an internal catalogue for global corporate data holdings.
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Soon, all our civil servants will be using CKAN. It makes publishing data openly a business-as-usual activity, as opposed to a specialised, ‘techy-flavoured’ task.
Iain Fleming Open Data Strategy Lead at Open Data Northern Ireland