ePSI Open Data Days, Warsaw, February 21-23
The ePSI platform team have announced “three days of open data fun” in Warsaw next month. The big day is the 2013 ePSI platform conference on 22nd February, but you’re…
My Environment App Competition
Natural England, in partnership with the Environment Agency, is launching a new web-portal service called My Environment. To celebrate its launch, My Environment is running an Apps competition. From the…
Urban Data Challenge
Calling all Transport Hackers! The Urban Data Challenge has launched, a semi-competitive open transport data hacking spree featuring datasets from San Francisco, Geneva, and Zurich. The idea is to merge…
The Year in Review: Top Stories from 2012
So it came and it went, and we seem to all have survived the End of the World. It’s been a big year, so as we bid it farewell and…
Open Data BC Summit – Call for Speakers
A little note on behalf of Nelson Lah, Chair of the Open Data Society of British Columbia, Canada. The Open Data Society of BC is hosting the BC Open Data…
The Open Knowledge Foundation Newsletter, December 2012
Well here in the northern hemisphere the days are drawing in and winter is upon us. Autumn’s been ace though, and as busy as ever! OKFest went better than we…
COMMUNIA statement on open access to EU funded Horizon 2020 research
Horizon 2020 is the EU’s proposed new programme for research and innovation, which would run from 2014 to 2020. The programme would create an “Innovation Union” with a budget of…
More jobs at the OKFN – Apply now!
Following on from our recent announcement of seven new jobs at the Foundation, we’re really pleased to say we’ve got even more opportunities available! CKAN, the world’s leading open-source data…
Members of the public asked to help tend Feynman’s Flowers
A project at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) is making fantastic use of the Pybossa tool (a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Citizen Cyberscience Centre) in…
US Doctor Data to be “Open Eventually”
Here’s an interesting project using slightly unorthodox means to get data out into the open: crowdfunding the purchase of US healthcare data for subsequent open release. The company behind the…