OKCon 2013 Guest Post: Connecting Open Resource Flows for Development

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To complete the dozen in our guest posts by OKCon speaker we asked Mark Brough to write something about the workshop ‘Connecting Open Resource Flows for Development’ in the Open Development & Sustainability programme, that he will present together with Anders Pedersen, Openspending on Monday 16 September, 17:15 – 18:45 @ Room 20, Floor 3…. Read more »

OKCon 2013 Guest Post: How Linked Open Data supports Sustainable Development & Climate Change Development

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Guest post number eleven in the OKCon speaker series is from Florian Bauer, Denise Recheis and Martin Kaltenböck. They have organized and will be holding the workshop ‘How Linked Open Data (LOD) supports Sustainable Development & Climate Change Development’ in the Open Development & Sustainability programme, on Wednesday 18 September, 11:45 – 13:15 @ Room… Read more »

OKCon 2013 Guest Post: New approaches to working with information for advocacy

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Our tenth guest post in the OKCon speaker series is from Maya Indira Ganesh. She will be speaking in the session ‘Data-driven storytelling’, as part of the Evidence and Stories programme, on Wednesday 18 September, 14:45 –16:00 @ Main Stage Room 2. Evidence & Influence New approaches to working with information for advocacy Two years… Read more »

Opendata.ch welcomes you to OKCon 2013 in Geneva!

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Opendata.ch is the Swiss chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation. In September they will be co-hosting OKCon 2013 in Geneva. Hannes Gassert, vicepresident of Opendata.ch, has agreed to introduce the Swiss Open Data community and what they have been doing so far Switzerland is a place known for secrecy, not for openness. Our banks are… Read more »

OKCon 2013 Invited Speakers: John Ellis

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[Photo: CERN] We are excited to announce that Professor John Ellis (CERN, King’s College London) will be one of the keynote speakers at OKCon 2013. John Ellis is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists, and also a great communicator. He has been influential in setting CERN’s strategic direction and contributed to the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson…. Read more »

OKCon 2013 Event Update

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The OKCon 2013 conference on Open Data – Broad, Deep, Connected is being held in Geneva, Switzerland in September. OKF Events and Marketing Team Beatrice Martini and Elaine Shaughnessy have been to check out the venue and to meet up with our colleagues from OpenData.ch – Andre Golliez, Hannes Gassert and Jan Zuppinger and with… Read more »

Extending The Call For Volunteers Until 2nd June

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What. Volunteering at OKCon 2013 When & where. 16th-18th September 2013, Geneva, Switzerland. How. Find the call and the submission form here Deadline. The deadline to submit your application is 2nd June, 23:59:59 GMT. We are very grateful for the huge response to our original Call for Volunteers and for the amazing applications that we received…. Read more »

OKCon 2013 Call for Proposals deadline extended to 31st May!

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Event. OKCon 2013 – 17th-18th September 2013, Geneva, Switzerland. Call for Proposals. Find the call, FAQs and the submission form on the OKCon 2013 Call for Proposal webpage. Deadline. New deadline to submit your proposals is May 31st, 23:59:59 GMT. Results will be published by 17th June, 23:59:59 GMT. Tickets. Early Bird tickets are on… Read more »

OKCON 2013 Invited Speakers: Ellen Miller

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We’re glad to announce that Ellen Miller, executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, will be one of our keynote speakers at OKCon 2013. As co-founder and executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, Ellen Miller advocates the use of the internet to inspire greater openness and transparency in government. She founded two further organisations, the Center… Read more »

Welcome to the OKCon 2013 Blog!

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Welcome to the OKCon 2013 Blog! Follow us to be the first to know all the news and updates about OKCon 2013! Subscribe: RSS Twitter: @OKCon Facebook: OKCon 2013 – the Open Knowledge Conference A look at CICG, the OKCon 2013 venue. Join us in Geneva, get your Early Bird ticket now!