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Updates, events and reflections from Open Knowledge Belgium and its projects — 130 stories and counting.
9 Nov 2022 · Open Knowledge Belgium
Open Knowledge Belgium General Assembly 2022
The Belgian open data community is thriving, and we are inviting anyone interested to be more involved with Open Knowledge Belgium to become an official member!
Read story →22 Oct 2022 · Jonathan Beliën, Joost Schouppe
OpenStreetMap Belgium annual report 2021
OpenStreetMap Belgium just released their annual report for 2021
Read story →11 Jan 2022 · Astrid Steenackers
Open Knowledge Belgium is looking for a Business Developer & Project Manager (F/M/X)
We are looking for a business developer & project manager. We need *you* if you have a passion for everything open, and can infect other people with your enthusiasm. Our organization consists of plenty of people with ideas, and we know there are many partners out there that like to support or work with us. We need you to turn those ideas into projects. You know how to open doors, get the right people together and keep them on the right track.
Read story →28 Jul 2021 · Yaiza Narganez Gomez
Learning @osoc21
Open summer of code isn’t only a summer program for students and coaches alike, it’s also a great learning opportunity 🤯🎓 The following story highlights how #osoc21 helped our participants grow, share their knowledge and improve their expertise.
Read story →11 Jun 2021 · Jonathan Beliën, Joost Schouppe, Ben Abelshausen
OpenStreetMap Belgium annual report 2020
OpenStreetMap Belgium just released their annual report for 2020. 2020 has been a pretty busy considering the circumstances: A few successful projects:…
Read story →15 Mar 2021 · Lien Arits
HackYourFuture Lab @ Ghent brings newcomers closer to IT companies.
HackYourFuture Belgium has launched HackYourFuture Lab @ Ghent in collaboration with Artevelde University of Applied Sciences. This project will bring newcomers, and especially refugees and women, closer to the IT field - thanks to the Social Innovation Fund from the City of Ghent.
Read story →26 Jan 2021 · Dries Van Ransbeeck
New year, new challenge! I’m leaving Open Knowledge Belgium after 4 fantastic years
After more than 4 fantastic years, I have decided that it is time to pass on my role as general coordinator and I’ll make room for new projects. Thank everyone very much for the way we have worked together.
Read story →12 Jan 2021 · Lien Arits
Vacancy: Partnership & Communications Coordinator at HackYourFuture Belgium
We’re looking for someone who creates value and opportunities with the outside world for HackYourFuture Belgium and our students. Working with the General Coordinator, Educational Coordinator, and our dedicated community of volunteers, you will help HackYourFuture bring new talent into the tech world.
Read story →10 Nov 2020 · Astrid Steenackers
Open Knowledge Belgium defines 5 priorities for the federal digital agenda
1. The federal open data strategy The cabinet of Minister De Croo introduced a federal open data strategy in 2015 (1), setting out some generic guidelines.…
Read story →5 May 2020 · Dries Van Ransbeeck
Exceptional times call for new and open solutions: #osoc20 will be fully remote
A virus is throwing a spanner in the works for businesses and organisations around the globe. At the same time, we are witnessing a surge in innovation,…
Read story →3 Mar 2020 · Dries Van Ransbeeck
EqualStreetNames Brussels: Launch of open data visualisation
Less than 7% of street names have been named after a woman in Brussels: launch of EqualStreetNames.Brussels Open Knowledge Belgium, an association advocating…
Read story →3 Feb 2020 · Dries Van Ransbeeck
Towards Equal Street Names with Open Data
We are using Open Data to build a map visualizing the streets names of Brussels by gender. We need your help! The names of public spaces (streets, avenues,…
Read story →16 Jan 2020 · Dries Van Ransbeeck
We’re hiring a Community & Communications Coordinator for HackYourFuture Belgium with up to 3 years of experience (F/M/X)
Open Knowledge Belgium (nonprofit/vzw/asbl), as local chapter of Open Knowledge Foundation, is an umbrella organisation for various open knowledge and open…
Read story →28 Mar 2018 · Julia Thomaschki
5 Lessons We Learned From Open Belgium 2018
On March 12th, the World Wide Web’s 29th birthday, 250 Open Knowledge and Open Data enthusiasts gathered in LouvainlaNeuve, ready to enable access for everyone…
Read story →5 Mar 2018 · Thomas Duvivier
Open data day : Towards Clean Air with Open Data!
On Saturday 3rd March took place the Open Data Day, for the occasion, no less than 355 events occurred around the globe. One of them, “Towards Clean Air with…
Read story →31 May 2017 · Dries Van Ransbeeck
Open Knowledge Belgium is preparing for open Summer of code 2017
In the last few months, the open community in Belgium has had the chance to gather multiple times. Open Knowledge Belgium organised a couple of events and…
Read story →5 May 2017 · Dries Van Ransbeeck
Launch of Civic Lab Brussels
Last week Open Knowledge Belgium launched, in collaboration with Wikimedia Belgium, Civic Lab Brussels, a biweekly actionoriented gathering of open enthusiasts…
Read story →21 Feb 2017 · Dries Van Ransbeeck
Open Education Kickoff Meeting
Belgium is lacking behind when it comes to opening up their educational data. Therefore some bottomup action is needed in order to make this possible. As a…
Read story →20 Nov 2016 · Dries Van Ransbeeck
Open Belgium: Open Programme Gathering
Open Belgium is a yearly communitydriven conference on Open Knowledge and Open Data in Belgium. In just one day community members, researchers, industry…
Read story →31 Oct 2016 · Dries Van Ransbeeck
Here I am; excited to take up the challenge at Open Knowledge Belgium
Yihaa, I’m very happy to have recently joined Open Knowledge Belgium as its new project coordinator. Being the successor of driving force PieterJan won’t be an…
Read story →28 Sept 2016 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
A new challenge for me is a new opportunity for Open Knowledge Belgium
I remember it like yesterday, sitting in a bar to discuss joining Open Knowledge Belgium as a fulltime employee. I was a fresh off the boat socialmedia manager…
Read story →24 Jun 2016 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Introducing W4P, a crowdsourcing for open, social and local projects.
After 10 months of figuring what we need to build, building it and then testing it in real life situation we can now say: W4P is alive! Or at least in a solid…
Read story →22 Apr 2016 · Anastasia Valeeva
Belgium in the Open Data Barometer: Half way through
Yesterday the World Wide Web Foundation has released the third edition of the Open Data Barometer. A collaborative research that covers 92 countries and ranks…
Read story →19 Apr 2016 · Anastasia Valeeva
Diplohack Datad(r)ive Webinar summary
This is the Diplohack Datad(r)ive Webinar Blogpost. About all that you saw (or didn’t) and more. <iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0"…
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