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10 Mar 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Apps for Dummies
Workshop Apps 4 Dummies Saturday, 22 March, 2014 – 10:30 to 12:30 Are you a proud citizen or fan of the City of Ghent with lots of ideas for digital…
Read story →7 Mar 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
#ddays14 Apps for Europe Business Lounge
We’ve truly been inspired by the contestants during the Apps for Europe business lounge during the Data Days Conference. We had 5 participants with a solid…
Read story →5 Mar 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Apps For Ghent IV DataDive: The Prequel
May the fourth be with you. Oh yes, the fourth edition of Apps For Ghent is right around the corner and to inspire the digital minds in Ghent, we’re organising…
Read story →3 Mar 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Media-hack-a-thon? A creative hackathon concept in Belgium.
We’ve blogged about a few hackathons before but this one deserves a separate category. So what is this mediahackathon? Simple, on saturday 15 March at 11 AM…
Read story →27 Feb 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Next saturday: Apps For Students
Next saturday on the 8th of March, SITE or ‘Student IT Entrepreneurs’ is organising the second edition of Apps for Students in Leuven. Good news for all…
Read story →26 Feb 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
The Open Belgium conference picture show
This is our last blogpost dedicated to the Open Belgium conference on the 17th of February. Here’s a small selection of the pictures that were taken by Thomas…
Read story →25 Feb 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
A look back to the Open Belgium Conference 2014
Last monday, on the 17th of February 2014, the first edition of the Open Belgium Conference was held in the STAM Museum in the City of Ghent as part of the…
Read story →12 Feb 2014 · Pieter Colpaert
The true concept of Open Government
“8 principles of Open Government Data” is the title of the now famous manifesto published on December 8th 2007. Over time, the word “Government” was often…
Read story →11 Feb 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
The City of Antwerp releases 210 extra datasets on their Open Data Portal
Great news for all the developers, startups and development enthousiasts who use Open Data in their applications. Since yesterday, the 50 available datasets of…
Read story →11 Feb 2014 · Mathias Van Compernolle
The future: My Open Data most wanted
Although there’s a lot of attention paid to Open Data, we must not forget that the pursuit of opening public datasets and the corresponding open data movement,…
Read story →8 Feb 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Data Days goes social
As Openbelgium.be is a community website, the conference day has some social aspects we hold dear as well. We hope that all datawranglers, local policy makers…
Read story →6 Feb 2014 · Yannick H'Madoun
Creative Commons and data projects. One license to rule them all
As open data and open data projects are becoming increasingly important as value creators in the modernday economy, it is nice to see that important efforts…
Read story →4 Feb 2014 · Pieter Colpaert
PSI-Directive implementation path, what can we expect?
In June 2013, a revision of the Directive has been adopted by the Union legislator. Member States now have 2 years to transpose the provisions of the revised…
Read story →29 Jan 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Apps4EU: Turning data into business
Final Call for Apps! – deadline 7th February 2014 Are you an open data based startup? Apps for Europe is running an online competition to find the best app…
Read story →27 Jan 2014 · Ben Abelshausen
OpenStreetMap @ DataDays
OpenKnowledge is what happens when OpenData become useful. MT @zoerobinson1: What is \openknowledge? It’s “what \opendata becomes when it is made useful”…
Read story →23 Jan 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
#ddays14, not just a conference hashtag
(If TL;DR: Share the Belgian data you want to see Open with us on Twitter through ddays14) Most of you who’ve read this blog know about the OpenBelgium event…
Read story →16 Jan 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Apps4K will start this month
The city of Kortrijk kicks off the Open Data and hackathon season with Apps4K. From 30 January 2014 until 1 February 2014 application builders and creative…
Read story →14 Jan 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Open Belgium – The Conference
Some of you might have seen the video on the home page about the Open Belgium conference we are organising. So now we want to officially invite all the Open…
Read story →6 Jan 2014 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Welcome to OpenBelgium.be
Although Open Data is a known concept in Belgium for several years, according to the ranking on the Open Data Index, Belgium only ranks 58th out of the 70…
Read story →20 Dec 2013 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
The FOD Economy will open up their collected enterprise data
The Belgian Federal Government is taking the next step to Open Governance in Belgium, which we applaud with great enthusiasm. The FOD Economy announced that in…
Read story →10 Dec 2013 · Pieter-Jan Pauwels
Community coordinator at OKFN Belgium
Let me introduce myself. I’m PieterJan and from now on I’m the new community coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium. I’ll be lead on projects…
Read story →5 Dec 2013 · Pieter Colpaert
The DataTank: New version, professional support.
The DataTank is taking it to the next level. New version. Professional support. The DataTank is open source software, just like CKAN, Drupal or Elastic Search,…
Read story →25 Nov 2013 · Pieter Colpaert
Data Days – The Hackathon
We have already sent out a Save The Date for Open Belgium, the conference part of Data Days 2014 in Ghent the 17th of February. As part of Data Days (dd2014),…
Read story →23 Oct 2013 · Ben Abelshausen
OSM Belgium joins OKFN Belgium
The Open Street Map Belgium (OSM Belgium) community is joining the Open Knowledge Foundation Belgium (OKFN Belgium) umbrella. As OSM is now a working group at…
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