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GovHack 2012 winners, UK Finch Group report, and UK GP data released

Local GovHack 2012 – winning mashups, data visualisations, and apps   Global UK Finch Group report on expanding access to published research UK GP data released   GovHack 2012 – winning mashups, data...

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UK Government releases Open Data White Paper and new Data.Gov.uk

The UK Government has recently released its revamped open data site, Data.Gov.uk, and published its Open Data White Paper: Unleashing the Potential. According to Rufus Pollock of the Open Knowledge...

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You’re invited to the OpenAustralia Freedom of Information Hack[s]fest

​Cross-posted from the OpenAustralia Foundation blog by Henare Degan, OpenAustralia Foundation volunteer As you may have heard, the OpenAustralia Foundation is really close to launching a new site that...

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What is ‘Open Knowledge’ and why should I want to join the OKFN in Australia?

What is the Open Knowledge Foundation (for me) and Why should I want to join? You can read all about the OKF via their website, blogs, projects and much more… But I want to tell you what OKF is to me...

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Monthly Melbourne Open Knowledge Meetups

It’s getting closer to that time of Year… ride my bike more, go on a crazy shake diet, stop smoking, etc – Welcome to the New Year’s resolution countdown. Just mentioning these things makes me want to...

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What did Aaron steal?

Tax-payer funded research is just that: funded by the taxpayers. But the outcomes of that research are conveyed through papers in academic journals that cost money to access. Why can’t the public view...

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The Data Newsroom

4th Feb 2011. Melbourne, The Age HQ – from ‘The Data Newsroom’ event. For the first time, The Age Newspaper opened their doors to hackers** asking them to dig into three datasets not previously...

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The Final Frontiers: an A-Z of ‘open knowledge’

Open Knowledge is naturally a very difficult thing to define, especially since it is defined by a community of people whose view of Open Knowledge is naturally kaleidoscopic. When people ask me what...

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Data.Hack.Map Art Gallery (&‘Data Carpentry’ Course)

“After doing this ‘Data Carpentry’ course module, I went back to use Google Maps for getting some directions, and I realized how much more beautiful a map can be; being taught TileMill gave me a whole...

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Event GovHack – Beautiful Data

As most of you will have heard, the Australian Government’s annual ‘open data’ event (GovHack) is taking place across the country this year with prizes from $500 to $5000 on offer!  GovHack this year...

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Announcing the Open Knowledge Public Lecture Tour featuring Dr. Rufus Pollock...

Your local OKFN Ambassadors and working group are very pleased to invite you to attend, one of five public lectures that Dr. Rufus Pollock** will be giving during a short lecture tour throughout...

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Rufus Pollock takes Sydney by storm!

Brilliant 2 days of talking about Open Knowledge and getting things launched in Sydney!  Rufus has been on fire! Monday night’s public lecture was brilliant – the most engaging public forum I’ve...

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Rufus Pollock a hit in Sunny Brisbane

In an overnight trip to sunny Brisbane Rufus Pollock delivered an interactive session attended by 30 people at QUT on Friday night and on Saturday morning gave the plenary talk for the Queensland...

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OKFN Board Meeting Sunday 1st of September 2013

Watch the full board meeting as video recorded here: http://youtu.be/wPX9z1TGlH8 Attending: Dr. Rufus Pollock, Pia Waugh, David F. Flanders, Dr Markus Buchhorn, Paul Szymkowiak, Clare Paine, Anna...

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The Buddy System

The Buddy System[1] It is important to recognise that Ambassadors come and go, there are far too many wonderful causes and reasons in the world to assume that you will only dedicate your volunteer...

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HealthHack: a datahack for medical research problems

The full HealthHack site is up! Go look!   What is HealthHack? HealthHack is a weekend datahack working on problems that medical researchers face. Medical researchers create vast amounts of data, but...

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Data Down Under and the CKAN Users Group

The open data train rolls on. Many states (and a territory) have data catalogues and now 3 states (SA, QLD, NSW) and the federal government (data.gov.au) have moved to a CKAN platform. CKAN data...

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Can we hack health? Researchers and hackers come together to find out at...

Watching GovHack grow to over 800 developers this past year was amazing (and it will be even more amazing this year!), however watching an event when it is just the sparkle in the eye of a small...

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Open government data – what can we do in 2014?

image by justgrimes CC BY The State of Queensland is ramping up activities in preparation for the G20 summit to be held in Brisbane in November 2014.  According to the official  G20 charter, its...

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Doing Open Knowledge in South Australia

Photo courtesy of the State Library of South Australia It’s been a big year for the Open Knowledge movement in South Australia. Adelaide played host to Dr Rufus Pollock, founder of the Open Knowledge...

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