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Announcing the Frictionless Data Tool Fund: Apply for a mini-grant to progress and improve our specifications

Today, Open Knowledge International is launching the Frictionless Data Tool Fund, a minigrant scheme offering grants of $5,000 to help extend the implementation of software libraries — code that is used to develop software programs and applications—  for the Frictionless Data specifications by developing them in a range of programming languages.

Federación de Funcionarios organizó primeros juegos deportivos

Las competencias se realizarán hasta el viernes 20 de enero en las disciplinas de ajedrez, básquetbol, baby fútbol, voleibol, entre otros, en el Campus Deportivo Juan Gómez Millas y en la Facultad de Economía y Negocios. Este miércoles 18 de enero se iniciaron los 1° Juegos Deportivos de Verano Fenafuch 2017, competencia deportiva destinada a los funcionarios y funcionarias de nuestra Casa de Estudios.

Education startup helps refugees earn university degree

Springwise: “Berlin-based Kiron works with refugee students to put together an online course of study, rigorous enough to provide entry into a partner university’s second year of study. Using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Kiron helps students master their new country’s language while studying basic prerequisites for a chosen university degree. Already working with more than 1,500 students in Germany, Kiron recently expanded into France.

The Techno-Politics of Data and Smart Devolution in City-Regions: Comparing Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Bilbao

Paper by Igor Calzada: “This paper explores the substantial effect that the critical understanding and techno-political consideration of data are having in some smart city strategies. Particularly, the paper presents some results of a comparative study of four cases of smart city transitions: Glasgow, Bristol, Barcelona, and Bilbao.

Thesis, antithesis and synthesis: A constructive direction for politics and policy after Brexit and Trump

Geoff Mulgan at Nesta: “In the heady days of 1989, with communism collapsing and the Cold War seemingly over, the political theorist Francis Fukuyama declared that we were witnessing the “end of history” which had culminated in the triumph of liberal democracy and the free market.

Presenting the value of open data to NGOs: A gentle introduction to open data for Oxfam in Kenya

Open Knowledge International is a member of OD4D, a global network of leaders in the open data community, working together to develop open data solutions around the world. Here, Simeon Oriko talks about his work carrying out an embedded data fellowship with Oxfam in Kenya as part of the Open Data for Development (OD4D) programme. 

Replication is a matter of impact

In their first blogpost the authors argued for the conduction of more replication studies that e.g. use the same data. In this entry they look at how reputation and replication are entangled.... MORE

Now Available: Handbook on the Economics of the Internet

Now Available: Handbook on the Economics of the Internet

Zero Infinite #2 Postdigital Publishing

We proudly  present our second podcast, Postdigital Publishing.

Twitter to police abuse in major shift

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Waymo's Uber Lawsuit May Be Start Of A Google Patent War

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United States

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IBM gets a patent on “out-of-office” e-mail messages—in 2017

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United States

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Date published: March 1, 2017Ars Technica"The "invention" represented in the '842 patent is starkly at odds with the real history of technology, accessible in this case via a basic Google search.

IIPL & CIS Joint Research Meeting on Pervasive Technologies of Mobile Internet

IIPL has been working diligently with its research partner Indian Center of Internet and Society (CIS) on the Issues in Mobile Internet and Access to Knowledge. The joint project has been going for two years. A couple of research exchanges, in-person meetings or virtual calls, have been arranged. Both parties have been working on four chapters on copyright, licensing, patent and anti-trust related issues on the Mobile Internet respectively in Chinese and Indian legal environment.

Open innovation in the public sector

Sabrina Diaz Rato in OpenDemocracy: “For some years now, we have been witnessing the emergence of relational, cross-over, participative power. This is the territory that gives technopolitics its meaning and prominence, the basis on which a new vision of democracy – more open, more direct, more interactive – is being developed and embraced.

From big data to smart data: FDA’s INFORMED initiative

Sean Khozin, Geoffrey Kim & Richard Pazdur in Nature: “….Recent advances in our understanding of disease mechanisms have led to the development of new drugs that are enabling precision medicine.

Research Ethics in Social Computing: A Discussion

This is a liveblog of the town hall discussion "CSCW Research Ethics Town Hall: Working Towards Community Norms" at CSCW 2017.

Panelists from the SIGCHI Ethics Committee

Why you should take 10 minutes to look at the Open Data Roadmap this Open Data Day

March 4th is Open Data Day! Open Data Day is an annual celebration of open data all over the world. For the seventh time in history, groups from around the world will create local events on the day where they will use open data in their communities.
 

Five Global Challenges and the Role of University

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Berkman Faculty Associate, Juan Carlos De Martin with Berkman Klein founder, Charlie Nesson

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Five global, complex, interrelated and to some extent unprecedented challenges: in the coming years what can universities do to support society in addressing them?

Parent Event

Berkman Klein Luncheon Series

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Feb
28
2017
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Crowdsourcing Cybersecurity: Cyber Attack Detection using Social Media

Paper by Rupinder Paul Khandpur, Taoran Ji, Steve Jan, Gang Wang, Chang-Tien Lu, Naren Ramakrishnan: “Social media is often viewed as a senso

Open Knowledge Greece release algorithm prototype for analysing budgetary data – and other 2016 updates!

This blog post is part of our on-going Network series featuring updates from chapters across the Open Knowledge Network and was written by the  Open Knowledge Greece team.
OK Greece Team