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News from the open community
17 Oct 2013 · Katleen Janssen
EWI opens up research data!
On October 21st, the 6<supth</sup edition of Open Access Week kicks off. This global event is a key opportunity to bring open access to the attention of policy…
Read story →2 Sept 2013 · Pieter Colpaert
Apps for Culture
On Saturday September 21, 2013 creative developers can get their hands on open cultural datasets during the cocreation event Apps for Culture. The day consists…
Read story →11 Jul 2013 · Mathias Van Compernolle
Save the date: Apps For Energy 18 & 19 October 2013!
Together with Essent.be and other energy actors we’re organizing Apps For Energy this fall. During this cocreation weekend we want to stimulate and inspire…
Read story →28 Jun 2013 · Pieter Colpaert
Server outage and open Summer of code 2013
This Monday, Summer of code is starting. It is an event where 20 students will work on various open source projects with open data. They are hired thanks to a…
Read story →13 Jun 2013 · Mathias Van Compernolle
Data Dive on tourism
On July the 4<supth </sup we organize together with Flanders Tourism, DOK and the City of Ghent a Data Dive on tourism to share a number of ideas and to…
Read story →31 May 2013 · Mathias Van Compernolle
Apps for Flanders – Business Lounge
During the Open Data Day on the 14th of June, Apps for Flanders takes place at the same venue. During this event, main focus is on the economic value of…
Read story →10 May 2013 · Pieter Colpaert
Random Hacks of Kindness
It has become a tradition that OKFN Belgium plays a part in Random Hacks of Kindness: a weekend where programmers hack for a better world. OKFN Belgium will be…
Read story →4 May 2013 · Pieter Colpaert
Flemish Open Data licenses
Flanders has been working on their own Open Data Licenses. There are 5 licenses available in the guidelines: CC0, an Open Data License and 3 proprietary…
Read story →12 Apr 2013 · Mathias Van Compernolle
Almost there: new European rules on open data
Good news for European Open Data enthousiasts: Member states of the European Union have endorsed new rules for opening up publiclyfunded data to developers,…
Read story →9 Apr 2013 · Pieter Colpaert
Announcing #oSoc13: open Summer of code 2013
During the summer, a lot of companies hire students for a 1 month job. A student will work on a project that no one had time for before. Rumour has it that…
Read story →26 Mar 2013 · Pieter Colpaert
Sumocoders and 9K win Apps for Ghent
Apps for Ghent has been organised for the third time. It is the ideal moment for citizens of the city of Ghent to show that Open Government Data can make the…
Read story →10 Mar 2013 · Jan Vansteenlandt
The DataTank user group meeting
Communication is key in so many projects, and especially in community driven projects like The DataTank. That’s why in the past we have organized some meetings…
Read story →10 Mar 2013 · Mathias Van Compernolle
Info session Summer of Code 2013
After two successful events in 2011 & 2012 in Ghent, the Summer of Code ‘13 this year will be simultaneously organized in Bruges & Ghent. During three…
Read story →24 Feb 2013 · Mathias Van Compernolle
Apps for Students
On Saturday, the 2nd of March, Trissen, OKFN and Katholic University of Leuven organize a hackathon for IT students where they build applications that support…
Read story →30 Jan 2013 · Pieter Colpaert
Open Transport working group
We love transport data. Our Open Transport Working Group, iRail, has just netted a frontend engineering contract for SoLoMIDEM, a project to develop an…
Read story →27 Jan 2013 · Pieter Colpaert
We Open Data
We’ve launched an exciting new working group, called “We Open Data.” The group is for freelancers who have knowledge about open data tools (such as CKAN and…
Read story →22 Jan 2013 · Pieter Colpaert
Winter welcomes
We are really pleased to welcome three new colleagues, Michiel Vancoillie and Jan Vansteenlandt who join us as programmers, and Mathias Van Compernolle who is…
Read story →21 Jan 2013 · Pieter Colpaert
Friends find funding
ontoforce is a Belgian startup founded in 2011, that has been actively promoting Open Knowledge. The aim of ontoforce is to use this technology in order to…
Read story →19 Jan 2013 · Mathias Van Compernolle
Digital Battle: jobadvisor for and made by students
The Flemish Public Employment Service (VDAB) organizes a digital battle. The Public Employment Service in Flanders (VDAB) is organizing a ‘Digital Battle’ for…
Read story →26 Dec 2012 · Pieter Colpaert
Apps For Whisky
Apps For X is the working group led by Lieven Janssen which supports people who organise Apps For X events. With a bunch of volunteers he is setting up various…
Read story →26 Nov 2012 · Pieter Colpaert
Random Hacks of Kindness december 2012
For the third time we organize Random Hacks of Kindness in Belgium. Random Hacks of Kindness is a rapidly growing global initiative encompassing a community of…
Read story →25 Nov 2012 · Katleen Janssen
Open Data Index – Where’s Belgium?
In September, the World Wide Web Foundation published the first version of the Open Data Index. It is part of the Web Index, which measures topics such as…
Read story →22 Nov 2012 · Pieter Colpaert
Legislative version control
Recently someone pointed me towards a TED talk about “How the Internet will (one day) transform government“. In Clay Shirky’s talk, Clay is flirting with the…
Read story →20 Nov 2012 · Pieter Colpaert
Open Data is not for sprinters
Open data is not for sprinters, says Andrea Mi Maio in a blogpost at Gartner’s. Open Data is the logical next big step for IT infrastructures at governments.…
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