How a bad experience made an OKFN labs project
From theory to experimentation Back in November 2010, I faced a problem while teaching my students about the Semantic Web. I wanted to convey the idea that Semantic Web technologies can break down the...
View ArticleEpisode #22 – Arfon Smith – GitHub, Open Science and Academic Culture Change
In this episode, I talk with Arfon Smith of GitHub.com. At GitHub, Arfon promotes academic engagement in open source code and open science. Prior to working at GitHub, Arfon worked in a number of...
View ArticleFive reflections for an open data hackathon
I was asked to provide a short talk at the start of the Future Food Hackathon that kicked off in Wageningen, NL today, linked to the Global Open Data on Agriculture and Nutrition workshop taking place...
View ArticleEngaging Lunchtime Session
Last 11th of June the Open Data team from CYC held an internal event for its staff. This event, called “The Open Data World”, was part of the “Engaging lunchtime sessions” the Council organises...
View ArticleUnremembering the forgotten
Keynote presented at DH2015, 3 July 2015. Full slides available on SlideShare. This, you might be surprised to learn, is not the first time that Australia has welcomed some of the world’s leading...
View ArticleUSDA Participated in a “First of Its Kind” Camp for DC-Area Teens Focused...
Picture of the second session of the Open Data STEAM Summer Camp with 14-16 year olds. Summer has arrived and young people all over the country are enjoying their time spent in summer camps. And while...
View ArticleOpen Education India #2
Our first ever Open Education Around the World post was written in September 2013: Open Education India. It highlighted work going on in India to improve education using Open Education approaches such...
View ArticleTalking Tools for Use in Tanzania
Over the next couple of days, we’re looking forward to discussing open data tools with attendees of the Africa Open Data Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Every day, more and more data is added to...
View ArticleBasic questions about data
Over the past couple of years I’ve written several posts that each focus on trying to answer a simple question relating to data and/or open data. I’ve collected them together into a list here for...
View ArticleTeaching Open Data for Social Movements: a Research Strategy
This article aims to describe the experience of the course “Open Data and Social Movements”, conceived as a tool for research on open data engagement. While it focuses on training activists to...
View ArticleDealing with Data 2015 – Presentations now available
On the 31st August, over one hundred researchers from across the breadth of the University of Edinburgh met together in the Informatics Forum to discuss the challenges of dealing with the research...
View ArticleDon’ Panic – The Latest OU/Hans Rosling Co-Pro Has (Almost) Arrived…
To tie in with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals summit later this week, the OU teamed up with production company Wingspan Productions and data raconteur Professor Hans Rosling to produce a second...
View ArticleIdle Thoughts on “Data Literacy” in the Library…
In part for a possible OU Library workshop, in part trying to mull over possible ideas for an upcoming ILI2015 workshop with Brian Kelly, I’ve been pondering what sorts of “data literacy” skills are...
View ArticleSchool of Data Fellows: What Are They Up To?
Our brilliant 2015 School of Data Fellows are a busy bunch! We asked them to reflect on the first half of their fellowships; here’s a roundup of just a few of the highlights: Camila has run numerous...
View ArticleDatawijs, bridge between young people and open data
Open data is gaining more importance these days. Yet, a lot of young people don’t know what open data is, or how they can benefit from it. That’s where Datawijs comes in. It’s an interactive video...
View ArticleTeaching Open Data for Social Movements: a Research Strategy
Alan Freihof Tygel and Maria Luiza Machado Campo at the Journal of Community Informatics: “Since the year 2009, the release of public government data in open formats has been configured as one of the...
View ArticleOpen Data as Open Educational Resources: Case studies of emerging practice
Book edited by Javiera Atenas and Leo Havemann: “…is the outcome of a collective effort that has its origins in the 5th Open Knowledge Open Education Working Group call, in which the idea of using Open...
View ArticleProblem-Solving with Open Data: A Caribbean Perspective (Part 2)
A guest post from Maurice McNaughton Maurice McNaughton is actively involved in the emerging open data movement in the Caribbean as a founding member of the Caribbean Open Institute (COI). The COI is a...
View Article‘No more crossed wires’: how open innovation is born from company collaboration
‘No more crossed wires’: how open innovation is born from company collaboration Open Data Institute trainer Ben Cave shares the wide benefits of the open approach taken with eLearning developer Sponge...
View ArticleFour lessons from Banda Aceh’s open data experiment
A guide to starting an open data practice. The post Four lessons from Banda Aceh’s open data experiment appeared first on GovInsider. Report preview added by Open Data Aha! [gview...
View ArticleNew research paper on Open Data as Open Educational Resources
‘Open Data as Open Educational Resources: Towards transversal skills and global citizenship‘ is one of the research articles featured in the ICDE Prizes for Innovation and Best Practice journal 2015....
View ArticleOpen Data in a Day for Business
On November 5th 2015, I had the opportunity -not to mention the pleasure- to follow my very first open data related seminar entitled “Open Data in a Day for Business”, organized by the ODI Athens node…
View ArticleThe ‘data revolution’ will be open
Martin Tisne at Devex: “There is a huge amount of talk about a “data revolution.” The phrase emerged in the years preceding this September’s announcement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and has...
View ArticleOpen Data as an Educational Resource – 5 HE case studies over here!
Launched last Friday (4th Dec 2015) at UCL, this book (which is free to download or read online) contains five case studies about using open data sets for educational purposes, at undergraduate and po…
View ArticleOpenCon 2015 and open access in Nepal
November 14-16, 2015, Brussels witnessed OpenCon 2015, the conference for students and early career academic professionals on Open Access, Open Education and Open Data. Attendee Roshan Kumar Karn...
View ArticleOmidyar Network Invests $2m in Web Foundation Open Data Programme
Today, we’re delighted to announce that Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm, has invested $2m into the Web Foundation’s Open Data programme. Over the next three years, we’ll be using...
View ArticleCase Study of 21st-Century Civic Engagement
INTRODUCTION Code for America is a San Francisco-based non-profit that believes government can work for the people, by the people, in the 21st century. Over the last five years, we’ve partnered with...
View ArticleWhat is a smart city?
How can data, technology and smart infrastructure be used to future-proof our cities? What’s the role of citizens in shaping their design and development? Find out about all this and more by...
View ArticleODI Futures: How open innovation will transform agriculture
On 3 December we held an event focusing on the future of agriculture, in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Chaired by ODI Head of Research Dr Tom Heath, it...
View Article2015 – that was the year that was
This time last year, the Office of Scholarly Communication at Cambridge University had been in existence for one week. As the inaugural Head of the Office, I had landed in the UK from Australia on 1...
View ArticleHelsinki University Library Opens Data to the General Public
Helsinki University Library is making its data available to the general public. “Helsinki University Library’s open data web service api.hulib.helsinki.fi offers the vast majority of the library’s data...
View ArticleThe beauty in the data big bang
The beauty in the data big bang Dr Kim Nilsson, CEO, Pivigo 13th January 2016 During the holidays, I visited what could be the world’s first big data exhibition at Somerset House in London, called “Big...
View ArticleGetting Started with Data Science: Storytelling with Data
(This article was first published on eKonometrics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Earlier this month, IBM Press and Pearson have published my book titled: Getting Started with Data Science:...
View ArticlePractical Participation – 2016 update
Although this year my primary focus is on PhD write-up, I’m still keeping active with the two companies I’ve co-founded. So, a couple of updates – firstly, the annual Practical Participation...
View ArticleCrowd2Map Tanzania
“Crowd2Map Tanzania is a new crowdsourcing initiative aimed at creating a comprehensive map ofTanzania, including detailed depictions of all of its villages, roads and public resources (such as...
View ArticleUsing open data to stimulate new methods of human rights monitoring
Open Schools Kenya, which uses data from multiple sources to map education institutions in the capital of Nairobi. The traditional strategy of monitoring human rights violations goes like this: Local...
View ArticleChatting With ONS Data Via a Simple Slackbot
A recent post on the ONS Digital blog – Dueling with datasets – describes some of the design decisions taken when putting together the new Office for National Statistics website (such as having a...
View ArticleImproving safe routes to school through champions for open data
The following post is based on a presentation to a Safe Routes to School National Partnerships webinar, “Harnessing the Power of Data to Support Kids Walking and Biking.” The accompanying slides and t…
View ArticleOur Lives in Data – Science Museum Late Review
As mentioned previously on this blog, we were delighted to be involved in the ‘Late’ at the Science Museum on Wednesday August 31 as part of the ‘Our Lives in Data’ exhibition. It was great to see...
View ArticleTo boldly go… the librarian’s role in text and data mining
Jane Secker et al examine the ways in which librarians can facilitate the work of researchers who want to use text and data mining. The authors also argue that librarians need to encourage researchers...
View Article‘Bring Open Data to Your School’: connecting teens with open data in Argentina
With access to more data about their communities, teenagers can use it to shape decisions and plan their futures. Supported by the ODI’s mini-grants programme, the Argentine Government set out to...
View ArticleCreative Commons and Hope — How Open Access Journals Helped Me in a Dark Time
I’m bad with linear time. Sometime about two months ago, my daughter was four months old. She was healthy and happy and life was good for our family. When we brought her in for her four-month...
View Article19 Free Public Data Sets For Your First Data Science Project
This post was originally published at: https://www.springboard.com/blog/free-public-data-sets-data-science-project/ Completing your first project is a major milestone on the road to becoming a data...
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