Open Knowledge Festival
15-17 July 2014 - Berlin
Kathleen Luschek
Open minds to open action
"Encourages people from all over the world,
irrespective of distinction or privilege,
to utilise open and indiscriminate knowledge
in order to empower themselves
and their communication."
3 Narrative Streams
Discourage knowledge silos
and facilitate cross-exchange of ideas
- Knowledge
- Tools
- Society
Knowledge
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informs change
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open access
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open research data
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open educational resources
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open science
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data journalism/campaigning
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data visualisation
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literacy
Tools
- enable change
- nonprofit technology
- open source software
- open hardware
- arts
- design
- architecture
- urban planning
Society
- effects change
- designing institutions
- building communities
- protecting environments
- open gov
- transparency
- privacy
- open tech businesses
- open development
Kulturbrauerei
Volunteers
Social Media
Session: open access global review
(Cameron Neylon & Peter Murray-Rust)
etherpad: https://pad.okfn.org/p/Open_Access_Global_Review
- What country are you from?
- What info is already available about OA?
- What additional info do we need?
- What would you like to see happen & how?
Outcomes
- a need for explaination of better licensing
- a need for better understanding of policies
- need to centralize what's happening in OA
- a need for actual stats and figures
- where does the money go?
- a need for more open tools & peer review
- exercise was useful for those countries considered "behind" to see what other countries have done
- a need for a place to share what you've learned
session: Skills & tools
for web native open science
(Karthik Ram, rOpenSci)
Tools to master
etherpad:https://pad.okfn.org/p/Skills_and_tools_for_web_native_Open_Science
SESSION: OPEN SURVEILLaNCE?
Take-aways
- Connections/Networking
- Meeting people old and new
- New Projects
- Many people want to work with PLOS
- Perspective
- How OA differs country to country
- Educational
- Learning not just about Open Science
