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 […]
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 […]
MyData is taking off in the public sector – what is its impact?
MyData is a model for making the data economy work for the people. Open Knowledge Finland, and particularly the MyData Working Group, can take a good chunk of the credit for formulating MyData as an idea, as well as lobbying others to take it seriously. Some of the early research on the topic was done in collaboration […]
