Year: 2014

Posted byby OKFN
January 23, 2014

Myanmar – Developing a Knowledge Society from Scratch

This is a guest post by Waltraut Ritter from Knowledge Dialogues and Opendata Hong Kong/Open Knowledge Foundation Hong Kong, who recently visited Myanmar as basis for this interesting account. She…

Posted byby Francis Irving
January 20, 2014

The best data opens itself on UK Gov’s Performance Platform

This is a guest post by Francis Irving (@frabcus), CEO of ScraperWiki, who has made several of the world’s first civic websites such as TheyWorkForYou and WhatDoTheyKnow. This is the…

Posted byby Stefan Wehrmeyer
January 18, 2014

Let’s fix EU copyright!

Today is Day 6 of Copyright Week, organised by EFF, looking at Getting Copyright Right. The European Commission is currently holding a Public Consultation on the review of the EU…

Posted byby Michelle Brook
January 15, 2014

Copyright and Open Access 2014

This post is a guest post by Michelle Brook and Tom Olijhoek from the Open Knowledge Foundation Open Access Working Group. This week has been proclaimed Copyright week by the…

Posted byby Beatrice Martini
January 15, 2014

Join the “Get Ready For Open Data Day 2014!” Hangout on January 21!

Open Data Day 2014 is coming! On February 22 – just over a month! And you might wonder: what is it exactly, where does it come from – and how…

Posted byby Primavera De Filippi
January 14, 2014

Copyright Week: Public Domain Calculators

From 13 to 18 January the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is organising Copyright Week, an event focused on promoting six key principles for guiding copyright policy and practice. Each day…

Posted byby Tarek Amr
January 13, 2014

Tutorial: Data Visualisation for Print

Let’s say you want to produce a Bubble Chart, Dendrogram or Treemap out of some data you have. You also need to be able to manually edit the output visualization,…

Posted byby OKFN
January 8, 2014

Creative Commons 4.0 BY and BY-SA licenses approved conformant with the Open Definition

This post by Timothy Vollmer, Manager of Policy and Data at Creative Commons, originally appeared on the creativecommons.org website. In November we released version 4.0 of the Creative Commons license…

Posted byby Neil Ashton
January 6, 2014

Mapping the Open Spending Data Community

We’re pleased to announce the official release of “Mapping the Open Spending Data Community” by Anders Pedersen and Lucy Chambers, an in-depth look at how citizens, journalists, and civil society…

Open Technology Research Officially Launches to Strengthen Global Research Community

The Road to a Press Freedom AI Commons

Open Knowledge Foundation Priorities for the 2025 OGP

Travis Gerke: ‘Academia is still very supportive of the singular hero scientist. But most things take teams’

Andrés Vázquez: ‘90% of technological problems can be solved with tools that have been around for decades’

Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’

Our Network Contribution to Shape the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy

School of Data Returns: Scaling Digital Literacy Through Trainer Multipliers

Presentation & Expert Roundtable: ‘From Software to Society — Openness in a Changing World’