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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Collective Intelligence 2018: From Open Knowledge and Network Organizations to Technology-enabled Intelligence
This article is reposted here from the ResponsiveOrg Finland blog on Medium. I attended the Collective Intelligence 2018 conference was organized 7–8.7.2018 at the University of Zurich, the university where Albert Einstein received his PhD. Most of the participants of the Collective Intelligence 2018 conference were academics and the presentations reflected this but there were […]
Transparency, algorithms and data
Notes from the Data Transparency Lab 2017 in Barcelona As part of Open Knowledge Finland, I attended the Data Transparency Lab(DTL) Conference in Barcelona last December. Unfortunately I only managed to attend the second day but since the sessions were recorded, I will be watching the rest online soon. Nevertheless, the second day had a […]
