OpenSpending CSO Workshop – Sarajevo
The full story from Sarajevo can be found on the Open Spending blog A while back, we wrote about the kickoff of our project to deliver the budget of Bosnia…
Following Money and Influence in the EU: The Open Interests Europe Hackathon
This blog post is cross-posted from the Data-driven Journalism Blog. <img alt="" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8199/8220416586_26ef2f90c6.jpg" style="float: left;width: 250px;height: 375px;margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px" />Making sense of massive datasets that document the processes of lobbying…
The Open Knowledge Foundation Needs Your Support
We have never been so busy! Over the past 18 months we have been working with hacks and hackers, citizens and civil servants, students and scientists to open up knowledge which should…
Open Data and Privacy Concerns in Biomedical Research
Privacy has long been the focus of debates about how to use and disseminate data taken from human subjects during clinical research. The increasing push to share data freely and…
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…
The Myth of European Term of Protection Harmonisation
This blog post is based on Christina’s paper, “The Myth of European Term Harmonisation – 27 Public Domains for 27 Member States”. This is a shortened version of the post…
The Tamiflu story: Why we need access to all data from clinical trials
The BMJ Open Data Campaign has been attracting a lot of attention. Here Dr Tom Jefferson, one of the people whose attempts to provide reliable information on the anti-flu drug…
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…