India Open Data Census
The India City Open Data Census is an ongoing, crowd-sourced measure of the current availability of the municipal datasets across India. It is run by Open Knowledge India and was conceptualized on the...
View ArticleWaiting for the new French Digital law
According to the last UN Survey on E-Government published this year, France proves to be at the top of the list of the countries embracing a high level of e-government development, reaching the 1st...
View ArticleSoftware Freedom Day 2014 celebrated in Nepal
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). In Nepal, FOSS Nepal Community has been regularly organizing and celebrating Software freedom day since...
View ArticleDiscussing the hottest topics of the decentralized web at GET-D
„If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” is a more than adequate motto chosen by GET-D‘s organisers to give character to this event, a conference aiming to explore the...
View ArticleVisualising Daily Traffic in Santiago metro
Santiago metro is one of the main transportation system for its 6.5 millions inhabitants. A data visualization of the average daily traffic density in Santiago metro, made by Data Publica and Inria...
View ArticleInfogr.am Ambassador Eva Constantaras helps Kenyan journalists explain lag in...
For four days, 14 journalists from North Rift Kenya came together for a data journalism workshop led by Internews data journalism trainers Eva Constantaras and Dorothy Otieno. They investigated how to...
View ArticleThe value of sharing your know-how openly
In June 2010 I graduated from the University of Sheffield with a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Electronic Engineering and quickly embarked up on the typical academic career trajectory: I participated...
View ArticleThe best of ConDatos, the top Open Data event of Latin America
Three weeks ago, a most important serie of Open Data events took place in Mexico City. The biggest megacity of the whole American continent was chosen to hold the second edition regional conference for...
View ArticleIntroducing the new Open Knowledge directory with PLP Profiles
During Open Steps’s journey around the world discovering Open Knowledge initiatives, the existence of a global community of like-minded individuals and groups became clear. Across the 24 countries we...
View ArticleWikiAkademia and AdaCamp in Berlin!
I’ve been to a number of open source and technical conferences over the last few years, most of which I’ve thoroughly enjoyed. But AdaCamp is a special kind of experience. AdaCamp is a conference...
View ArticleAnalysing journalistic data with detective.io
No doubt, the power of the internet has changed profoundly the way in which journalists gather their information. To keep up with the growing amount of data digitally available, more and more tools for...
View ArticleGiving research data the credit it’s due
In many ways, the currency of the scientific world is publications. Published articles are seen as proof – often by colleagues and future employers – of the quality, relevance and impact of a...
View ArticleExploring Open Science: DNAdigest interviews Aridhia
As promised last week in the DNAdigest’s newsletter, we are giving life to our first blog post interview. Be introduced to Mr Rodrigo Barnes, part of the Aridia team. He kindly agreed to answer our...
View ArticleDNAdigest Symposium: A tour in Open Science in human genomics research
This past weekend, DNAdigest organized a Symposium on the topic “Open Science in human genomics research – challenges and inspirations”. The event brought together very interested in the topic and...
View ArticleOpen Spending: Tracking Financial Data worldwide
If you have followed the activites of the OKFN these last years, you probably already know Open Spending, the community-driven project initiated in 2007 and which has considerably grown since then....
View ArticleExploring Open Science n°2: DNAdigest interviews SolveBio
DNAdigest continues with the series of interviews. Here we would like to introduce you to Mr Mark Kaganovich, CEO of SolveBio, who agreed on an interview with us. He shared a lot about what SolveBio...
View ArticleExploring Open Science n°3: DNAdigests interviews NGS logistics
NGS logistics is the next project featured in our blog interviews. We have interviewed Amin Ardeshirdavani who is a PhD student involved in the creation of this web-based application. Take a look at...
View ArticleExploring Open Science n°4: DNAdigest interviews Nowomics
This week I would like to introduce you to Richard Smith, founder and software developer of Nowomics. He kindly agreed to answer some questions for our post blog series and here it is – first hand...
View Article7 Predictions for “Open Data” in 2015
What’s going to happen to the “open data” movement in 2015? Here are Dennis D. McDonald‘s predictions: Some high profile open data web sites are going to die. At some sites the lack of updates and...
View ArticleOpen Data in the Philippines: Best practices from disaster relief and...
While attending Geeks on a Beach last month, we also spent some time in Manila to visit a few labs and agencies, and had several discussions on the state of open-data in the Philippines. Quick...
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