The great Open Access swindle
This week is Open Access week, and we’ll be running a few pieces mulling over where Open Access has got to, and where it’s going. Here Martin Weller discusses some…
Hack4Health: London 2-4 November
In the first November weekend – 2-4 November – the UK Open Data Institute in London will host Hack4Health, organised by Coadec, Healthbox Accelerator, the Cabinet Office, NHS Hackday and…
Data Party: Tracking Europe’s Failed Banks
This blog is cross-posted from the OKFN’s Open Economics blog. This fall marked the five year anniversary of the collapse of UK-based Northern Rock in 2007. Since then an unknown…
From Laura to Lucy
In this post, Laura says farewell to her formal role with the School of Data – and welcomes Lucy Chambers, new Project Coordinator Extraordinare. As some of you may already…
Open Interests Europe Hackathon in London, 24-25 November
The European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation invite you to the Open Interests Europe Hackathon to track the lobbyists’ interests and money flows which shape European policy. When:…
Open Humanities Hack, 21st-22nd November
Where?: Guys Campus, Hodgkin Building, London, SE1 1UL When?: 21st-22md November Sign up: Please fill in the sign-up form Humanities Hack is the first Digital Humanities hack organised jointly by…
Data at the Karnataka Learning Partnership
Megha Vishwanath outlines how the Karnataka Learning Parntership have been working to collect and analyse data about public schools in India. Below, Megha talks us through the process of collecting…
US Congress data opened
Exciting news on open legislative data from the US. Eric Mills (from the Sunlight Foundation), Josh Tauberer (of GovTrack.us) and Derek Willis have been beavering away on a public domain…
Do bad things happen when works enter the Public Domain?
New research shows that the traditional arguments for copyright extension are as flawed as we always suspected. Copyright is generally defended in terms of the stimulus it gives to creative…
On the Road: African News Innovation Challenge TechCamp in Zanzibar
Out data wrangler Michael Bauer is on tour through Tanzania and Ghana. His first stop: The African News Innovation Challenge (ANIC) TechCamp in Zanzibar. Read his impressions below. How do…