Open data is a rapidly growing trend enabling a wide range of innovative uses. Yet most campaigners barely know what it is let alone how to use it for campaigning.

Here Tim Davies and Rolf Kleef lead a presentation to introduce open data to eCampaigning Forum participants (http://fairsay.com/ecf) and explore how it can be applied to campaigning.

They were speaking at the 2011 Global eCampaigning Forum in Oxford, UK. Event participants are primarily part of the eCampaigning Forum community.