OKFestival 2014 – Burt Lum of Hawai’i Open Data and Bytemarks Café – Interview
I’m proud to say, I’ve finally met Burt Lum. Burt has been a lovely supporter of the OKCast since our inception. It was a joy to speak with Neal Bastek of Open Knowledge today and have him tell me to...
View ArticleOKFestival 2014 – Janet Gunter of the Restart Project – Interview
I spoke today with Janet Gunter of the Restart Project at OKFestival 2014. Janet talked to me about issues of technology repair and reuse, e-waste, and gender in tech and maker spaces. Listen to her...
View ArticleOKFestival 2014 – Anahi Ayala Iacucci – Internews – Mini-Interview
In this short interview with Anahi Ayala Iacucci, I ask her about her thoughts on the festival and her work with Internews. The post OKFestival 2014 – Anahi Ayala Iacucci – Internews – Mini-Interview...
View ArticleOKFestival 2014 – Brigid Pasco and Jeff Deutch – Artists Without a Cause –...
In this mini-interview, I talk with Brigid Pasco and Jeff Deutch of Artists Without A Cause. Listen in to hear about their cool project to connect artists and NGOs to the benefit of both! The post...
View ArticleOKFestival 2014 – Jaakko Korhonen – Open Knowledge Finland – Mini-Interview
In this mini-interview, I talk with Jaakko Korhonen (@jaakkokorhonen), founder of the Open Knowledge chapter of Finland. They brought nearly 27 Finnish attendees (two of whom are pictured in the...
View ArticleOKFestival 2014 – Sheba Najmi – Code for Pakistan – Mini-Interview
Sheba Najmi was a Code for America fellow and went on to found Code for Pakistan. In this interview, she talks about the creation of Code for Pakistan, hackathons there, and what the civic tech...
View ArticleOKFestival 2014 – Antonio Acuña – Data.Gov.UK and Open Data Manifesto –...
Antonio Acuña (@diabulos) is head of UK government’s Open Data group (http://data.gov.uk) and was working during the festival on the next steps of their soon-to-be-completed Open Data Manifesto....
View ArticleOKFestival 2014 – James Smith of the Open Data Institute – Interview
In this interview, James Smith (@Floppy) talks about one of his Open Data Institute (ODI) software projects: CSVLint. We also reflect on Eric Hysen of Google’s keynote address, discussing the...
View ArticleOKFestival 2014 – Chris Taggart of Open Corporates – Mini-Interview
Laura James (@LaurieJ), co-director of Open Knowledge interviews Chris Taggart of Open Corporates soon after they reached their goal of 10 million liberated corporate data points in 10 days. They...
View ArticleOKFestival 2014 – Max Ogden of CSV,Conf and Dat – Interview
I’ve been waiting to interview Max Ogden (@maxogden) of the Dat project for a long while. Lo and behold, I found him at CSV,Conf and #okfest14. We got a chance to sit down for an awesome interview. In...
View ArticleOKFestival 2014 – Joe McArthur of Right to Research Coalition and Open Access...
We’ve been wanting to talk with the Open Access Button team for a long while, which we finally got to do at #okfest14. I spoke with Joe McArthur (@mcarthur_joe) about the OA Button and about his work...
View ArticleKristof Van Tomme of WalkHub – an OKFestival 2014 Post-Interview
I caught up with Kristof Van Tomme of WalkHub after the end of the 2014 Open Knowledge Festival. Kristof is developing a powerful open source tool to help document the interfaces of the internet. They...
View ArticleMushon Zer-Aviv (@mushon) of Public Knowledge Workshop and Tin Geber...
In this interview, I speak with Mushon Zer-Aviv (@mushon, www.mushon.com) of the Public Knowledge Workshop and Tin Geber (@tingeber, at the Engine Room) of the Engine Room. We talk about a topic close...
View ArticleOKFestival 2014 – Patrick Alley of Global Witness – Post-Keynote Interview
Here’s our follow-up interview with Patrick Alley of Global Witness after his keynote presentation at OKFestival 2014 in Berlin. We’ll add Patrick’s keynote video once it’s available. In the mean time,...
View ArticleEpisode #14 – The Student Net Alliance with Alec Foster and Rob Davis
In this episode, we discuss the work of the Student Net Alliance with Alec Foster and Rob Davis. You can reach Alec on Twitter @alectivism and Rob @robdotd. The Student Net Alliance combines new...
View ArticleEpisode #15 – Code for Miami: A Code for America Brigade Does Open Civic...
In this episode, we discuss the work of Code for Miami with Rebekah Monson and Ernie Hsiung. You can reach Rebekah on Twitter @rsm and Ernie @ErnieAtLYD. Code for Miami a Code for America Brigade – a...
View ArticleBeginning a Public Open Data Infrastructure: An Interview with OpenAddresses
We caught up this week with Ian Dees, founder of the OpenAddresses project. OpenAddresses is trying to collect address information for every block all across the United States. They’re doing an...
View ArticleEpisode #16 – Web Literacy with Mozilla Webmaker’s Doug Belshaw
In this episode, I (@AlexFink) talk with Doug Belshaw (@dajbelshaw) of Mozilla @webmaker. Doug is the Web Literacy Lead for the Mozilla Foundation. He comes to this work through a history as a teacher,...
View ArticleEpisode #17 – Hacking Public Infrastructure with Alexandre Vallette
In episode 17 of the OKCast, I talk with Alexandre Vallette of ANTS. ANTS is an open knowledge company focused on building applications using machine learning, good user interface design, and what they...
View ArticleEpisode #18 – Citizen Science and Open Source Beehives with Tristan Copley-Smith
In Episode 18, I talk with Tristan Copley-Smith of the OpenSource Beehives project. Open Source Beehives is a network of citizen scientists saving bees and tracking bee decline. Using open source...
View ArticleEpisode #19 – Sensor Journalism and Citizen Science with Lily Bui
Lily Bui, Copyright Lily Bui, Used with Permission of Author In Episode 19 of the podcast, I talk with Lily Bui, a researcher and journalist exploring what she calls sensor journalism. Sensor...
View ArticleEpisode #20 – What Lies Beneath the Surface: Infrastructure Groundtruth with...
This is The OKCast Episode 20. In this episode, I talk with Ingrid Burrington, a researcher and artist using technology and mapping to explore interesting, often unseen places. I met Ingrid at an Open...
View ArticleEpisode #21 – Resistance, Activism and Hope in the Age of Big Data and...
In this episode, I talk with Alison Powell, Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics, where she researches digital media policy, open source culture, and big data. Alison has written a...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Interview with Penny Andrews: Inclusive Open Communities
In this interview I talk with Penny Andrews, activist and advocate for inclusion in Open Knowledge communities. Penny does a great job detailing some of the issues with inclusion in Open Knowledge and...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Interview with Juan Pablo Alperin: Open Access Advocacy
In this OpenCon 2014 pre-interview, I talk with Juan Pablo Alperin, (now former) activist for open access at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. In this interview, he shares tips and...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Karin Purshouse – Open Access Advocacy in Medicine
In this OpenCon 2014 pre-interview, I talk with Karin Purshouse about her open access advocacy in work in medicine, and the reasons behind it. It’s a short compelling interview, well worth a listen!...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Audrey Watters’ Keynote – From “Open” to Justice
Audrey Watters’ Keynote Audrey is the blogger behind hackeducation.com and in this keynote, she addresses the problem of what counts as “open”. The full keynote is available on OpenCon2014.org’s live...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Lauren Maggio on the Open Knowledge MOOC
In this interview (conducted before OpenCon 2014), I talk with Lauren Maggio about the Open Knowledge MOOC: Changing the Global Course of Learning and briefly about her research on open access in...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Meredith Niles – Open Access Policy Advocacy
In this interview with Meredith Niles, I talk with her about receiving the Right to Research Coalition award moments earlier, her Open Access Policy Advocacy, and the future of Open Access policy in...
View ArticleOpenCon 2014 – Erin McKiernan – The Open Access Pledge
In this interview, I talk with OpenCon 2014 Keynote Erin McKiernan about her talk and about open access advocacy in more detail. A great extension of her phenomenal talk. This post and podcast by...
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...
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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleSensor 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,...
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