Episode #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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