Open Culture and Science Hackday at OKFestival
At the OKFestival in Helsinki next month, the Open Heritage and Open Science streams will be kicking off their three days of activities with a joint hackday dedicated to working…
Open Data – Chennai
This is part 2 of 5 of the Open Data India Series. You can read the first post ‘Open Data – Bangalore’ on the OKFN blog. Chennai, formerly Madras, is…
School of Data: Live in India
Lucy Chambers and I recently travelled to India, to meet people working with open data and to explore the challenges they face. For more details of some of the discussions…
OpenDataMx: Open Data Hackathon in Mexico City
This weekend Mexico City will host OpenDataMx, a Hackathon of public open data lasting 36 hours, during which participants will develop creative technical solutions to solve various civil society…
Development Data Challenge – London, August 25-26
Where Do Development Questions Meet Development Data? Where: The Guardian (Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1P 2AP) When: Saturday and Sunday, August 25-26 2012 This weekend in London, coders,…
Open Data – Bangalore
Laura and Lucy from the OKFN team recently travelled to India to learn where the challenges and opportunities for open data in India lay. This is part 1 of 5…
A Brief Summary of the World’s First Open Knowledge Festival
With only 4 weeks left until the OKFestival week starts in Helsinki, here is our latest rundown of everything you need to know about the event. We’re very excited about…
OpenData Edinburgh meets again – August 30th at the Informatics Forum
As the comedians, acrobats and miscellaneous thespians prepare to leave the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for another year, it’s time for the open data crew to reclaim the city! Following on…
The very first Open Data and Democracy Initiative Hackathon, South Africa
If knowledge is power then data are the individual watts; one by itself is aesthetically pleasing, but functionally useless. It’s only when we add all the watts together that we…
Elva – Texting for Security
The 2008 war between Georgia and Russia has upturned the lives of thousands of citizens in the Georgian region of Shida Kartli. Four years after the intense five-day war,…