Sensor Calibration and Certification with Puneet Kishor
In this fifth and final episode of the Sensor Journal Webinar Series, Lily Bui and I talk with Puneet Kishor of Creative Commons. We talk about the challenges of sensor calibration and certification,...
View ArticleToward an Educational Model for Sensor Journalism
In this episode, we talk with Catherine D’Ignazio (Emerson College, MIT Center for Civic Media), Don Blair (Public Laboratory of Science), Abbey Collins (Emerson College), and Amy Schmitz Weiss (San...
View ArticleThe Internet of Things & Smart Cities
Our latest conversation in the Sensor Journalism Series was with Yodit Stanton, Rob van Kranenberg and Michael Wayne. We talked the Internet of Things and Smart Cities. Both Yodit and Rob had critical...
View ArticleSensors & Journalism with Fergus Pitt
This first session in the Sensor Journalism Webinar Series discussed the Sensors & Journalism report from Columbia’s Tow Center with Fergus Pitt. You can view the archived video here. The next...
View ArticleAnnouncing: The Sensor Journalism Webinar Series
Sensor Journalism Series hosted by the OKCast and Sensor Journalism Lab Some exciting news! There’s going to be a webinar series on sensor journalism starting in March 2015. This is a new experiment...
View ArticleSeason #1 – Summer Break!
Dear listeners of the OKCast! A quick note that we’re on a summer season break. Life’s been busy for everyone involved, and we’ve been a bit slow to produce new episodes. But more importantly – we’re...
View ArticleEpisode #24 – Open Ecology and Conservation with Shah Selbe
This interview is with Shah Selbe. Shah is a National Geographic Explorer and, with colleagues at Nat Geo and elsewhere, is helping to shape the fields of open ecology and open conservation. As he...
View ArticleSensor Design & Deployment
The first official panel for the Sensor Journalism Series, with Matt Schroyer, Travis Hartman, Shah Selbe, and Willie Schubert took place on March 8th. There are several more events in the series, all...
View ArticleOpenEd 2014 – The Hubert Project and Open Educational Resources with Shannon...
Open Educational Resources, or OERs for short, were a big topic of conversation at OpenEd 2014. The Hubert Project at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs in Minnesota is building a repository of open...
View ArticleEpisode #23 – The Open Government Tour of Canada with Richard Pietro
Episode 23 is the first to roll out in 2015! But don’t let that fool you… we recorded it in 2014. But what might fool you is that there’s some new voices in town on the OKCast this year. I (Alex) was...
View ArticleEpisode #22 – Arfon Smith – GitHub, Open Science and Academic Culture Change
In this episode, I talk with Arfon Smith of GitHub.com. At GitHub, Arfon promotes academic engagement in open source code and open science. Prior to working at GitHub, Arfon worked in a number of...
View ArticleOpenEd 2014 – Prateek Mahalwar – Working for Openness at Max Planck Society
At Open Education 2014, I talked with Prateek Mahalwar, Open Access activist and student president at the Max Planck society. In this interview, he talks about the growing Open Access Ambassadors...
View ArticleOpenEd 2014 – Aria Chernik – Critical Pedagogy & Open Educational Resources
In this interview with Aria Chernik of Duke University at the Open Education 2014 conference, I talk with Aria about the intersections between critical pedagogy and open education / open educational...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Michael Carroll – Keynote Reflections on OpenCon
Michael Carroll, Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University College of Law, co-founder of Creative Commons, Inc., and open...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Carolina Botero – Open Access in Latin America
In this interview, I talk with Carolina Botero, a keynote speaker at OpenCon 2014 and an activist for Open Access in Colombia. She talks about her work on Open Access, problems with Open Access in...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Vladislav Dombrovskyy – Open Science and OpenCon Kyiv
In this interview from OpenCon 2014, I talk with Vladislav Dombrovskyy, the co-founder of open access publisher PROSTOScience, which publishes the IT and Economics journal. Vlad also helps organize...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Arslan Inayat – Open Access in Pakistan
In this interview with Arslan Inayat, we talk about Open Access scholarship in Pakistan, and the growing possibilities for Open Access around the world. Arlsan offers a number of insights well worth...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Jan Gondol – Open Access in Slovakia
In this interview, I talk with Jan Gondol of the Slovakian Ministry of the Interior. It’s a phenomenal interview – listen to him talk about his inspiring work! This post and podcast by Alexander Fink...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Daniel Mutonga – Open Access Africa
In this interview from OpenCon 2014, I talk with Daniel Mutonga, the Open Access liaison to Africa. Daniel talks about his experience working on Open Access issues in Africa – well worth a listen! This...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Célya Gruson-Daniel – HackYourPhd and Open Access in France
In this interview, I talk with Célya Gruson-Daniel of HackYourPhd and a doctoral student researching open science. Her group got a Go grant to host an Open Access event in Paris that grew involvement...
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