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News from the open community
25 Sept 2014 · Pieter Colpaert
E-gov awards Agoria (nl)
Verdient jouw project een egov award in 2014? Agoria ICT organiseert ook dit jaar de egov Awards om de meest verdienstelijke informatiseringsprojecten van de…
Read story →12 Sept 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Results of Wiki Survey and final steps
After launching our Public Consultation Call three weeks ago we have received 1533 votes on our All Our Ideas page Wiki Survey. Thank you for your…
Read story →5 Sept 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
The iron man of all hackathons in the Benelux is near.
The Dutch Open Hackathon, the ‘iron man’ of all hackathons in the Benelux is near and it still has a 100 spaces left. This hackathon, organised by Open State…
Read story →1 Sept 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Apps for Europe is looking for the best open data apps
With 10 Business Lounges happening throughout Europe this year, Apps for Europe is trying to find the best open data applications and startups that Europe has…
Read story →21 Aug 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Choose local open data with us
Open Belgium has been carefully planning the release of a Local Open Data Census, which is a benchmark, similar to the National Open Data Census, as a way to…
Read story →19 Aug 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Your view on the Dutch 4.0 Creative Commons license translations.
In the end of 2013, Creative Commons released the latest version of their licenses: 4.0. These licenses are the result of an intensive public consultation that…
Read story →6 Aug 2014 · Pieter Colpaert
Raising data quality by opening up in the city of Ghent
If you build it, he will come Field of dreams It is April 14th, 2011. In the city of Ghent a group of digital creatives gathers in a bar, to attend the third…
Read story →4 Aug 2014 · Pieter Colpaert
Third edition of the Open Data Day Flanders (Dutch)
Elk jaar organiseert de Vlaamse overheid de “Open Data Dag in Vlaanderen”. Meer dan 500 deelnemers uit binnen en buitenland hebben de eerste en tweede editie…
Read story →4 Jul 2014 · Pieter Colpaert
Have a picture of the Atomium? Think twice before sharing!
So you have created a nice picture of a panorama in Belgium? Think twice before you share it. Copyright legislation in Belgium doesn’t allow you to share the…
Read story →19 Jun 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Open Antwerp – Local Data Census
For those who are following our blog but haven’t heard of Open Antwerp yet, it is a free evening programme with three speakers about local city data and…
Read story →28 May 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
AppLAB2 – Visualise the City of Kortrijk
It’s time for the second edition of AppLAB. During this edition the city of Kortrijk is looking for software developers and designers to work in small teams to…
Read story →23 May 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Hack the elections presentation
Thanks for joining Hack The Elections and Good job, you found our presentation! For those who want to follow the whole presentation on their own device and get…
Read story →23 May 2014 · Pieter Colpaert
Relaunching BeLaws
Tim Esselens has launched BeLaws back in 2011. It is a search interface on top of all the laws in Belgium. We have done some maintenance on the server and have…
Read story →22 May 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Hack the elections – When social data meets open data
As you might know, well you should, on sunday 25th of May, everyone has to vote for the upcoming elections. With that in mind a new hackathon emerged under the…
Read story →30 Apr 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Attention to all datajournalists and devs.: The Pre-Dataharvest+ Hackaton is upon us
journalismfund.eu is organising the fourth edition of the Dataharvest+ conference next week. Investigative journalists, data specialists and coding whizzkids…
Read story →22 Apr 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
The return of open Summer of code
Spring is upon us in Belgium and that means Summer is around the corner. open Summer of code that is. open Summer of code? \oSoc14 is a three week project…
Read story →14 Apr 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
From parking data to mobility data in Ghent
Together with the City of Ghent , the Mobility Company of Ghent is evolving torwards open data and wants to open up more of their available data. There was…
Read story →10 Apr 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
eGov Mobility Hackathon
Last weekend was the eGov mobility hackathon Wallonia at the coworking Namur workspace hosted by our Open Belgium ambassadors Philippe and JeanYves. eGov…
Read story →10 Apr 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Hack for Health 2014, your startup opportunity in healthcare
Healthcare is a very innovative industry, but its digital tools are still stuck in the last century. HackforHealth would like to invite you to join them in…
Read story →4 Apr 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
BikeCityGuide and Nostalgeo win the Apps for Europe competition.
After a long and intense few days at FutureEverything, the winners of the Apps for Europe International Business Lounge 2014 were finally announced on Tuesday…
Read story →27 Mar 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
AppsforGhent IV – The after post
We’re proud to see that Apps for Ghent made it to its fourth edition. This year was marked by using environmental and health data, prefixed by a nice addition…
Read story →19 Mar 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
What’s on the Apps For Ghent IV Menu?
If there is one thing we learned from (co)organising hackathons, it’s that they’re fast and full of interesting talks and tracks. Apps For Ghent is no…
Read story →17 Mar 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Time for an Edit-a-thon
This saturday it’s time for Apps For Ghent, a short 6hour hackathon in the city of Ghent. I’ll be there all day and I want to start up a sidetrack during the…
Read story →10 Mar 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
The Chest Project – Call for ideas
CHEST (Collective enHanced Environment for Social Tasks) is a Collaborative project with support from the European Commission and since 31st January 2014…
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