Hackday for News Apps at OK Fest
GOAL: You have six hours to make a working news app. There are three of you, a coder, a graphic designer and a journalist. Is it possible? Yes. Five times in the last two years the biggest Finnish...
View ArticleOpenDataMx: Opening Up the Government, one Bit at a Time
On August 24-25, another edition of OpenDataMx took place: a 36-hour public data hackathon for the development of creative technological solutions to questions raised by the civil society. This time...
View ArticleOKFestival Green Hackathon
When: 19th-20th of September Where: Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Hämeentie 135 C Helsinki (Hack workshop 3) Welcome to two days of hacking for openness and sustainability...
View ArticleOpen Humanities Hack, 21st-22nd November
Where?: Guys Campus, Hodgkin Building, London, SE1 1UL When?: 21st-22md November Sign up: Please fill in the sign-up form Humanities Hack is the first Digital Humanities hack organised jointly by the...
View ArticleOpen Interests Europe Hackathon in London, 24-25 November
The European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation invite you to the Open Interests Europe Hackathon to track the lobbyists’ interests and money flows which shape European policy. When:...
View ArticleData Party: Tracking Europe’s Failed Banks
This blog is cross-posted from the OKFN’s Open Economics blog. nuklr.dave CC BY This fall marked the five year anniversary of the collapse of UK-based Northern Rock in 2007. Since then an unknown...
View ArticleHack4Health: London 2-4 November
In the first November weekend – 2-4 November – the UK Open Data Institute in London will host Hack4Health, organised by Coadec, Healthbox Accelerator, the Cabinet Office, NHS Hackday and the Open...
View ArticleHackathons: the How To Guide
Hackathons are a wonderful way to introduce people of all walks to the amazing possibilities of open data. Here in British Columbia we are fortunate to have a very active open data community which has...
View ArticleFollowing Money and Influence in the EU: The Open Interests Europe Hackathon
This blog post is cross-posted from the Data-driven Journalism Blog. Making sense of massive datasets that document the processes of lobbying and public procurement at European Union level is not an...
View ArticleFor Australian Data Geeks, an OpenStreetMap Hackathon in Melbourne this January
Living in Australia? Local Group organisers in the region are organising an all-day hackathon on Saturday, January 5th 2013 from 10 am onwards to create an OpenStreetMap-based bicycle map of...
View ArticleOpen Research Data Handbook Sprint – 15-16 February
On February 15-16, the Open Research Data Handbook Sprint will happen at the Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4JE. The Open Research Data Handbook aims to provide an introduction to...
View ArticleUrban Data Challenge
Calling all Transport Hackers! The Urban Data Challenge has launched, a semi-competitive open transport data hacking spree featuring datasets from San Francisco, Geneva, and Zurich. The idea is to...
View ArticleOpen Data Day 2013
Saturday 23rd Februrary is Open Data Day 2013! Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses...
View ArticleWrapping up Open Data Day 2013
Open Data Day 2013 took place on the 23rd of February – and it was great! From curious citizens to journalists, tech-geeks to scientists, designers to data wranglers, hundreds of people got together to...
View ArticleCity Spending Party around the world
Last weekend more than a hundred budget nerds and engaged citizens gathered at 20 spending data parties to open up city spending and budgets. From Lagos to Kathmandu groups dived into budget data...
View ArticleOpen Education Handbook Booksprint
Yesterday seventeen open education experts came together to begin writing the Open Education Handbook. The handbook is part of the LinkedUp project, and the project team have chosen to also make it...
View ArticleCKAN Hackathon and Local Group launch, Dublin
The following is cross-posted from the Open Government Partnership blog A CKAN hackathon is taking place on Saturday, 28th September at TCube in Dublin, bringing together IT specialists, political...
View ArticleCKAN hackathon: Hello from Ireland!
This post was written by Denis Parfenov, our Ireland Ambassador, and Flora Fleischer, a member of the new Local Group for Ireland. Last Saturday, the ‘Open Data Ireland’ community and the Open...
View ArticleOpen Legislation Working Group Relaunched at OKCon
Legal questions are at the heart of what openness is about, and there has always been interest at the Open Knowledge Foundation in open legislation – both in theory and in practice. Remarkable...
View ArticlePlanning Your Open Data Day 2014
Open Data Day is coming! On February 22, 2014 in a timezone near you! What is it? Open Data Day is a global community initiative to make and spread open data. People from all around the world gather...
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