Welcome to the OKFI Super Day on December 15, consisting of Autumn General Meeting Workshops OK Xmas Party Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/753638621649092/ Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Open-Data-Finland/events/256750653/ Schedule The tentative timetable is as follows: 13-16.30 Workshops 16.30-17 Break + quick board meeting 17-19 Autumn general meeting 19 -> OK Xmas Party Workshops Current workshop plans include at least Mapping the […]
Be an open hero, run for the Open Knowledge board!
Do you want to use your skills for open and just digital society? Apply now to Open Knowledge Finland (OKFI) board and core team 2019! We are looking for candidates with varying backgrounds – techies, youth, activists, researchers, policy & communication people – open society enthusiasts come in many forms! The most important skill is […]
Finland remains a leading country in the transparency of academic publishing costs
The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture (MoE) just released the price information for academic publishing agreements for 2017. With this, the price information for virtually all academic publishers is now openly available for most academic institutions in Finland 2010-2017. The data is available for download under creative commons. Further information of this data release […]
Scaling up paywalled academic article sharing by legal means
“If you read a paper, 100% goes to the publisher. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and will be genuinely delighted to do so.” This recent tweet by Holly Witteman inspired Iris.ai to launch the R4R initiative (Research for Researchers) that […]
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 […]
