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New Chair of the board
Introducing OKFIs new chairperson of the board Mehalet Yared “Mehalet has a long history of engaging in grassroots activism. Throughout her career for over a decade, she worked in global organisations in developing programs and tools that support active citizens’ participation and building more resilient communities.”
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AvoinGLAM reboots
AvoinGLAM reboots its activities by bringing Open Knowledge Finland, Creative Commons Finland, and Wikimedia Finland around the same table to promote Open Access to cultural heritage in Finland. Discussion events We are kicking off the spring program with a series of biweekly online discussions on Thursdays, and AvoinGLAM “Coffee & cookies” chats on alternating Thursdays.
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New board and action plan
OKFI autumn general meeting was held on 7.12. Meeting decided, among other things, action plan, budget and board for 2021. Action items for 2021 include a new webinar series, participating in Open Data Day, Open Education Week and Open Access Week, initiating and hosting openness related projects and of course continuing and developing collaboration with
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Enlivening the Community at Open Knowledge Finland Retreat 2018
A merry gang of 17 people got together on 12-13.10.2018 for our annual Open Knowledge Finland 24h retreat at Kisakeskus near Raasepori, about 90 km from Helsinki. The weekend featured talks, good food including Tapola’s black sausage, booze an evening at the sauna where Mika lost his glasses and a bunch of bonding. Art of