By Katherine Maher, Chief Communications Officer, Wikimedia Foundation. Knowledge should be free, open, and collaborative. This is the idea at the heart of Wikipedia.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Everyone today knows about crowdfunding. In case you are just returning from a trip to Mars, crowdfunding is a new way to raise funds which involves hundreds or even thousands of individuals, the crowd. If you need money for a venture, instead of going to the bank for a loan or getting venture capital you can now use websites like Goteo, Indiegogo, Kickstarter, etc. You present your project on one of these platforms and ask people from around the world to fund you. Crowdfunding is either a donation scheme, people help you to achieve something without expecting much in return for themselves, only a good feeling for having contributed to a good cause, or a pre-sale scheme, people give you money upfront for a service or a product that doesn't need to be finished before the crowdfunding, that you will deliver a few months later. There is also crowdfunding for equity, where people give you money in exchange of shares in your venture, but very few countries have permissive laws for it.
Last December, Open Knowledge and Code for Africa joined forces to launch a new open government fellowship, a programme that seeks to empower open government pioneers by giving them the opportunity to test their ideas on how to best harness the power of digital technologies to improve the way governments and citizens interact.
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The weekly Open Knowledge working bee is for anyone with any skill set to get together and work on Open Data projects, to talk about Open Knowledge, work on Open Knowledge projects, learn about new and old technologies, and discuss the nature of the new world of big, and often less than private, data and what can be done to use it for positive outc...
The weekly Open Knowledge working bee is for anyone with any skill set to get together and work on Open Data projects, to talk about Open Knowledge, work on Open Knowledge projects, learn about new an...
People say that knowledge is power, well open knowledge is empowerment” From government spending or cultural heritage to the results of scientific research and the ingredients in our...
OPEN KNOWLEDGE - A corporate but non-profit website about climate change, energy, demographic trends, and more - At Open Knowledge, individuals, like-minded organizations and companies can share their thoughts, ideas and well-grounded opinions on ...
Free/open source software and design communities; hackerspaces and the do-it-yourself enthusiasts; movements for an independent Internet; initiatives for free/communal wifi and open access to knowledge; permaculture communities… What do all these have in common? Are they unrelated cases or coincidences? Or could they be seen as seeds of a new civilization full of contradictions and chances for renaissance and change? This documentary — a low-budget yet sublime production — narrates the story of several Greek-based, knowledge-oriented communities that are building the world they want, within the confines of the fragmented world they want to transcend.
The Open Economics Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation – Identifying best practice as well as legal, regulatory and technical standards for open economic data
“With great power comes great responsibility” – we have heard this before and often. The depth and warmth of global response to the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25, 2015, however, gave a different message – with great responsibility comes great power. Following the news of devastation, people around the world reached out to the first Nepalese they could think of. They would ask: what can I do for Nepal? In Nepal, people united to help each other. Responsibility is thus taken, not given. And therein lies the power of being responsible. The power to give. The power to motivate.
José De Buerba is the Senior Publishing Officer and Head of Marketing at The World Bank Group Publications. José manages a team responsible for maximizing the dissemination of Bank publications, administering the Bank’s copyright, ensuring compliance with the Bank’s Open Access policy, and developing and maintaining the Open Knowledge Repository (OKR), the Bank’s official Open Access repository. The AIMS Editorial team invited José to share the World Bank’s Open Access experiences in setting up and running the Open Knowledge Repository. We asked him the following questions:-
Open Knowledge today announced plans to develop Open Trials, an open, online database of information about the world’s clinical research trials funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The project, which is designed to increase transparency and improve access to research, will be directed by Ben Goldacre, an internationally known leader on clinical transparency.
Imagine what change we could bring about in the world if we shared our collective knowledge and repackaged it to talk to the people that need it - IDS launches new open knowledge hub.
Open Knowledge today announced plans to develop Open Trials, an open, online database of information about the world’s clinical research trials funded by The Laura and John Arnold Foundation. The project, which is designed to increase transparency and improve access to research, will be directed by Dr. Ben Goldacre, an internationally known leader on clinical transparency.
While university presidents learn that their funding is to be reduced by EUR 400 million, the Ministry of Research has decided, under great secrecy, to pay EUR 172 million to the world leader in scientific publishing Elsevier .
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