Meet some of the members in Open Knowledge Sweden’s organisation.

Our organisation is made up of experienced and committed people. As a team we have expertise in everything from civic tech to open source, and public participation.

Elenor Weijmar

Elenor runs the Handlingar.se platform, a service that helps citizens, companies and associations to request information from authorities in Sweden. She also works as a technology trainer and coaches young people in business and entrepreneurship. Works at Public Insight AB.

Email: elenor[at]okfn.se

Mattias Axell

Mattias runs the Handlingar.se platform, a public web service that helps citizens, companies and associations to request public documents and public data from authorities in Sweden in accordance with the principle of public access to official records and the Data Act. He works as a trainer in metadata, open data, shared data and closed data at MetaSolutions AB which is owned by not-for-profit The Swedish Internet Foundation.

Email: mattias[at]okfn.se

Alina Östling

Alina has a PhD title in Political Sciences from the European University Institute, and a strong professional background in democracy, public participation and new technologies. In addition to her academic expertise, she has a long experience in providing research, evaluation and policy support to the European Commission, international organisations (UNDP, UNICEF, OSCE/ODIHR) and civil society organisations (Transparency International, Open Government Partnership). Works at RISE.