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OpenCon 2014 – Michael Carroll – Keynote Reflections on OpenCon

David and Michael Carroll at OpenEd 2014 - CC-BY Alexander Fink

Michael Carroll, Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University College...

OpenCon 2014 – Carolina Botero – Open Access in Latin America

In this interview, I talk with Carolina Botero, a keynote speaker at OpenCon 2014 and an activist for Open...

OpenCon 2014 – Lauren Maggio on the Open Knowledge MOOC

In this interview (conducted before OpenCon 2014), I talk with Lauren Maggio about the Open Knowledge MOOC: Changing the Global...

OpenCon 2014 – Audrey Watters’ Keynote – From “Open” to Justice

Audrey Watters’ Keynote Audrey is the blogger behind hackeducation.com and in this keynote, she addresses the problem of what counts as...

Episode #20 – What Lies Beneath the Surface: Infrastructure Groundtruth with Ingrid Burringon

Network, UWW ResNet, CC BY-NC-SA, http://flic-kr-s.njmu.s5.bt8.net/p/ctXmhf

This is The OKCast Episode 20. In this episode, I talk with Ingrid Burrington, a researcher and artist using technology and...

Civil Rights and Big Data

A new report by Robinson + Yu follows-up on Civil Rights Principles for the Era of Big Data with a...

Episode #16 – Web Literacy with Mozilla Webmaker’s Doug Belshaw

Web Literacy Map, http://webmaker-org-s.njmu.s5.bt8.net/%3F/resources

In this episode, I () talk with Doug Belshaw () of Mozilla . Doug is the Web Literacy Lead for...

Beginning a Public Open Data Infrastructure: An Interview with OpenAddresses

Address: YYC: 1304, Grant Hutschinson, http://flic-kr-s.njmu.s5.bt8.net/p/4jxrQ6, CC BY-NC-ND

We caught up this week with Ian Dees, founder of the OpenAddresses project. OpenAddresses is trying to collect address information...

OKFestival 2014 – Chris Taggart of Open Corporates – Mini-Interview

Open Knowledge Foundation-Festival 2014 at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin. Copyright: Gregor Fischer, 16.07.2014

Laura James (), co-director of Open Knowledge interviews Chris Taggart of Open Corporates soon after they reached their goal of...

OKFestival 2014 – Zara Rahman – School of Data – Mini-Interview

Photo by Alexander Fink, Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Listen to this mini-interview with Zara Rahman! I’ve been waiting to meet her for a long time and was...

Episode #13 – Data-Driven Detroit (D3) with Director Erica Raleigh

Kevin Chang, Detroit, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND, http://flic-kr-s.njmu.s5.bt8.net/p/dnQHBH

In Episode 13 we discuss the work of Data-Driven Detroit (also known as D3) with Erica Raleigh, their Director....

Open Data In Our World: #DataAsCulture

What are the implications of open data on culture? Lighthouse & FutureEverything explore this question in their new Brighton exhibit #DataAsCulture....

Open Referral 0.0 Draft Released – Check It Out and Contribute!

Here’s the announcement from Greg Bloom. We interviewed him about Open Referral in Episode #10. Go join the conversation...

Episode #11 – The Good Data and Data Cooperatives with Marcos Menendez

3D Visualization of Overwhelming Data, Creative Commons Elif Ayiter, BY-NC-ND http://flic-kr-s.njmu.s5.bt8.net/p/8HTiba

In this episode, we discuss the work of The Good Data with Marcos Mendendez. You can reach him on...

Episode #10 – Open Referrals with Greg Bloom

Creative Commons, BY-NC-SA, Eric Haynes, http://flic-kr-s.njmu.s5.bt8.net/p/aFfs2G

This is OK Cast Episode 10! In this episode, Bill Bushey () and Alex Fink () discuss the work...

Episode #8 – Global Opening Governments Survey and the World Bank Institute with Felipe Estefan

Sunciti Sundaram - Here Comes Water - Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA - http://flic-kr-s.njmu.s5.bt8.net/p/dwWruN

The OK Cast Episode #8 is OUT! Today we are discussing the work of the the Opening Government Survey...

Book Review: Visualising Information for Advocacy

Visualising Information for Advocacy, Tactical Tech Collective, CC SA License, http://visualisingadvocacy-org-s.njmu.s5.bt8.net/

French literary critic Roland Barthes wrote in Camera Lucida that excellent photographs have a punctum – a punch that...

The OK Review (Open Knowledge Around the Web) – April 7-12

Web 2.0 and Web 2.open NYC, Creative Commons, http://flic-kr-s.njmu.s5.bt8.net/p/7gZXeV

THIS WEEK EFF is Expanding into Student and Community Organizing, http://www.eff.org/… Recent events (which, I’m sure, include the Snowden releases...