Exploring Open Science n°3: DNAdigests interviews NGS logistics
NGS logistics is the next project featured in our blog interviews. We have interviewed Amin Ardeshirdavani who is a PhD student involved in the creation of this web-based application. Take a look at...
View ArticleExploring Open Science n°4: DNAdigest interviews Nowomics
This week I would like to introduce you to Richard Smith, founder and software developer of Nowomics. He kindly agreed to answer some questions for our post blog series and here it is – first hand...
View Article7 Predictions for “Open Data” in 2015
What’s going to happen to the “open data” movement in 2015? Here are Dennis D. McDonald‘s predictions: Some high profile open data web sites are going to die. At some sites the lack of updates and...
View ArticleOpen Data in the Philippines: Best practices from disaster relief and...
While attending Geeks on a Beach last month, we also spent some time in Manila to visit a few labs and agencies, and had several discussions on the state of open-data in the Philippines. Quick...
View ArticleAcross the Atlantic: Journalism++ opens its first chapter outside of Europe
Journalism++, the data journalism agency, opens its first chapter outside of Europe: Jornalismo++ São Paulo, also the first data journalism agency in Brazil. The Brazilian office will strenghthen...
View ArticleIndia Open Data Summit, 2015
Open Knowledge India, with support from the National Council of Education Bengal and the Open Knowledge micro grants, organised the India Open Data Summit on February, 28. It was the first ever Data...
View ArticleMozilla German-speaking Community Meetup 2015 in Berlin
I had the pleasure to be invited to the annual Mozilla german speaking community meetup in Berlin this year. Although I am based in Albania and not in Germany, Austria or Switzerland; I contribute from...
View ArticleOpen Source Conference Albania, OSCAL 2015
OSCAL (Open Source Conference Albania) is the first international conference in Albania organized by Open Labs to promote software freedom, open source software, free culture and open knowledge,...
View ArticleMozilla Weekend is coming to Berlin
In less than 2 weeks, Berlin will be lightened up by one of the flagship Mozilla community events: Mozilla Weekend, organized on the 11th and 12th. As the name suggests, the whole weekend is dedicated...
View ArticleMy experience building a 100% Open Source based Open Data platform
During the great OKFest 2014, we were lucky to re-encounter the folks from EWMI and Open Development Cambodia (ODC), a non-for-profit organization advocating for transparency that we could get to know...
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