Nominations for Open Knowledge Awards for 2018 is Open! This year, in order to have better judgement of year 2019, Open Knowledge Awards for 2018 will be held on February 27th, 2019. You are welcome to nominate an individual, group, or organization for each category from now on. The schedule of the nomination process as […]
Stockholm, 2017/10/17 – Open Knowledge Sweden is pleased to announce the Open Knowledge Awards 2017. Open knowledge is knowledge, often in the form of data, available for everyone to freely use, reuse and redistribute without any sorts of restrictions. Open Knowledge Sweden envisions enlightened societies where everyone has access to key information in order to […]
Open Knowledge Sweden expresses solidarity with the “Refugees Welcome” movement. In our modern, turbulent world access to the knowledge is power. We believe that information helps to keep a balance of power in the world, enabling freedom to make our own, informed choices. Access to information is not possible without access to a safer life. […]
Do you want to be involved in developing new smart services? Do you want to take part in inspiring seminars on digitization and open data? Then you should sign up for the Gothenburg event during the Nordic Open Data Week 2015. It is free and you can compete for great prizes. On May 30, 2015 […]
Open Data is quickly gaining ground and have the potential to change society in major ways. But what will this major change entail? What will the effect be for you as a researcher? Will it just mean more work? Or will Open Data be valuable for future research? How can you as a researcher contribute […]
I had a pleasure to be one of speakers at Swedish Standards Institute’s ‘ Forum for geodata’ on October 16 2014. Forum covered these topics: specifications for urban planning and construction, thoughts on 3D, data quality, environmental geodata, innovations with open data, GIS / spatial data in training. I gave general information about Open Innovation […]
This is simultaneously a reflection on the Open Knowledge Festival in Berlin and the whole “Open” movement. For a person with a sociologically inclined background I like to turn the mirror around at the participants of the event to contrast its disseminated content. Open Knowledge is an extremely diverse movement, and thus has a propensity for […]
Open Knowledge Foundation’s Sweden team is proud to support eGovlab’s “Apps4eGov Innovation Challenge” with the aim to innovate public service with use of Open Data. The contest is open for all students. Three finalists of the competition will be selected and will be offered an internship at the eGovlab in order to develop the app with […]
OKFN Sweden is proud to invite you to a seminar about OpenSpending! We are delighted to announce support from the global OKFN Central Team’s Tryggvi Björgvinsson. Tryggvi, hailing from Iceland, is the Technical Lead for OpenSpending at the OKFN Center and will present on the basis of the project and elaborate on related topics. The seminar […]
OKFN promotes openness and open data. When governments are open, then these governments can be more transparent, accountable. One of the issues that limits citizens ability to have transparent, open and accountable government is secret contracts. A new campaign has just started by OKFN to stop secret contracts. OKFN has announced it with a press […]
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