I’m 13 and my best friend from primary school asks me if I have an account on Tumblr. I do, but I’m not sure if I want her to know. She broke the unspoken rule, you never share your blog with IRL friends, it’s taboo to talk about it. I hesitantly agree, and we exchange blogs. I take a look at her page.
Colloque souveraineté culturelle – appel à contributions pour étudiant.es chercheur.es
22 octobre 2025, Monastère des Augustines (Québec)
Investigators from QUT Digital Media Research Centre researchers have been awarded $898,788 in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects scheme.
The Linkage Program promotes national and international research partnerships between researchers and business, industry, community organisations and other publicly funded research agencies.
People want technology for people. Last week, the Open Knowledge Foundation hosted The Tech People Want Summit, bringing together 34 speakers from 19 countries to rethink how technology supports our work in conversational sessions. This wasn’t a summit about coding, but focused on non-technical professionals – including data practitioners, communicators, project managers, and advocates. Once...
17 July 2025 — Next week, on 22 and 23 July 2025, the High Court of Justice in London will hear the Wikimedia Foundation’s legal challenge to the Categorisation Regulations of the United Kingdom (UK)’s Online Safety Act (OSA).
The infrastructure researcher and CSO at Nym joins us for the seventeenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations with over 100 people about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement
The post Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’ first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.
Why is it that these two worlds have similar values but barely seem to connect? While both aim to promote free access to information, they seem to do so by different types of peoples associated with the separate movements.
The post Open Science & Open Knowledge – similar but yet different worlds first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.
Since October 2023, both pro-Palestinian groups and their opponents have increasingly relied on online political ads to shape public discourse. In the case of pro-Israeli ads, multiple state and nonstate actors have spent millions of dollars on disinformation campaigns on Google, Meta, X, and YouTube.
aau/MüllerWhenever a package weighing more than a drone needs to be transported to a disaster area, it takes several mini drones to get the job done. Aamna Piracha is researching decentralized formation control and collaborative slung payload transport with multiple UAVs operating as a collective system. She is particularly interested in enabling drone swarms to safely and autonomously maneuver in cluttered and unpredictable environments while carrying rescue packages, such as through collapsed urban areas or narrow streets.
Während des Betriebsausflugs ist die Uni-Zentralverwaltung am Donnerstag, 17. Juli 2025, nur eingeschränkt verfügbar. In der Studierendenkanzlei, dem Prüfungsamt und dem Career Centre wird von 8 bis 12 Uhr ein Jourdienst eingerichtet, der bei dringenden Angelegenheiten unterstützt. Die Zentrale Studienberatung kann über die Infotheke im Erdgeschoss oder telefonisch unter der Nummer (0931) 31-83183 erreicht werden.
Fungizide sind Pflanzenschutzmittel, die Pilze oder deren Sporen abtöten. In der Landwirtschaft dienen die Mittel dazu, Pilzkrankheiten zu bekämpfen und Felderträge zu sichern. Der Nachteil: Bei übermäßigem Einsatz können sich resistente Krankheitserreger bilden und sogar angrenzende Felder befallen.
UNESCO has declared 2025 the “International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.” Quantum physics has existed for around one hundred years, and since then, it has provided the theoretical foundation for numerous technologies. Quantum computing is regarded as one of the most important future fields of digital technology and is expected to bring abstract scientific concepts into application in a spectacular way. This requires a complex network of funding programs, international collaborations, and interdisciplinary lighthouse projects, as well as the creative curiosity of scientists.
The CEO of Nextcloud joins us for the sixteenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement
The post Frank Karlitschek: ‘No one can buy a product that is owned by the whole community’ first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.
What is the topic of the “Podcast about Data Sharing” – and what is our goal? We talk about this in the first episode. We shed light on some of what lies behind buzzwords like sharing economy, data silo, platform economy, or open science. And we explore the different understandings associated with sharing: voluntarily giving data for a specific purpose, mutually exchanging data with someone else, passing data along within a group, or making data openly available to everyone – these are not the same. Who benefits from this?
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