Podcasts about open knowledge international

Adrià es Licenciado en Biología y Máster en Sistemas de Información Geográfica. Tiene más de una década de experiencia trabajando en los campos de Datos Abiertos y Tecnología Cívica. Es miembro del equipo técnico de CKAN y trabaja en diferentes proyectos en Open Knowledge International, ayudando a desbloquear el valor de los datos abiertos. Ideas: Sitio web personal de Adria: https://amercader.net/ GitHub: https://github.com/amercader Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriamercader/ CKAN: https://ckan.org

The State of Open Data – Histories and Horizons is a new book that provides a review of the first 10 years of open data. Join Mor Rubinstein, Tim Davies and Carla Bonina to discover insights gained and the challenges still to be overcome as open data enters its second decade The book brings together over 65 authors from around the world to examine open data from historial, sectoral, and regional perspectives, uncovering the issues that will shape the future of open data in the years to come. About the speaker Mor Rubinstein leads on designing and managing projects that use 360Giving data, commissioning online platforms and tools, as well as collecting and sharing learning about data use. Previously she was Capacity team lead at Open Knowledge International and Project Manager of the Global Open Data Index, a benchmarking tool for open government data publication. Mor has worked on open data around the world with the Public Knowledge Workshop (Israel) and the Oxford Internet Institute and has written several papers on open data use. Tim Davies is an activist, researcher, and social entrepreneur, who has been working on themes related to open data since 2009. He was Research Lead for the first two years of the IDRC/World Wide Web Foundation’s “Exploring the Emerging Impacts of Open Data in Developing Countries” research network and coordinated the first two editions of the global Open Data Barometer. He co-founded Open Data Services Co-op in 2015 to support ongoing development of open data infrastructures, including the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) and data standards for corporate transparency. He was series editor for the Open Data Charter Open-Up Guides on anti-corruption and agriculture. A social researcher by training, Tim has been a fellow of the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society and has studied at the Oxford Internet Institute and University of Southampton Web Science Centre. He blogs at http://www.timdavies.org.uk and tweets at https://www.twitter.com/timdavies. Carla Bonina is a social scientist and an expert on digital government and social innovation in Latin America. Carla provides strategic advice to governments, international organisations and philanthropic investors, such as Avina Americas, the OECD, ILDA, and the World Bank among others. She holds a PhD in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and is currently a lecturer at the University of Surrey’s Centre for Digital Economy.

Should AI systems be more human-centric? We look at how a trial of self-driving vehicles in Texas is focusing on what the technology can do now. Rufus Pollack, the founder of Open Knowledge International, discusses how freedom of choice promotes innovation. And, a simple solution to increasing productivity in India. Kenneth Cukier hosts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Should AI systems be more human-centric? We look at how a trial of self-driving vehicles in Texas is focusing on what the technology can do now. Rufus Pollack, the founder of Open Knowledge International, discusses how freedom of choice promotes innovation. And, a simple solution to increasing productivity in India. Kenneth Cukier hosts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bad data is everywhere. A CSV that doesn’t load, a spreadsheet that is badly formatted, a date column that has different formats, and so on. A lot of time is spent fixing these issues, instead of actually analysing the data. In this talk, you’ll hear about Good Tables, a tabular data validator that is able to check for issues like: All rows have the same number of columns There are no duplicate rows The data types are correct (e.g. a numeric column has only numbers, a date column has only dates in a specific format, etc.) It also allows writing custom checks using Python. Goodtables is useful both if you are a data publisher, by helping you to increase your data quality and facilitate the data reusability, and if you are a data user, by giving you a quick way to check the data for errors. It can be executed locally or via https://goodtables.io, a continuous tabular data validation service. You’ll also understand about how the Frictionless Data’s Data Package and Table Schema specifications can help you describe and load datasets. About the speaker Vitor Baptista is the engineering lead for the Open Knowledge International. Since joining in 2012, he worked on a range of projects related to open data, like building data portals using CKAN, improving fiscal transparency with OpenSpending, aggregating and releasing clinical trial data with OpenTrials, and more. His main interests are in how we can use data and data visualization to make better decisions to improve the world. He is currently based in Birmingham, UK.

According to the May 6th, 2017 issue of the Economist, data has officially displaced oil as the world’s most valuable resource. If you’re like me, the most surprising part of this declaration is that its taken until now for it to appear. Data drives the business models of most, if not all, of the world’s most valuable companies, governments rely upon data for safety and security issues and data availability is something so many of us take for granted when we’re driving from our homes to an unfamiliar destination. As the world’s most valuable resource, you’d think that data would be locked in safes, or hidden from view or, basically, hoarded whenever possible. And you’d be correct. However, what we also know is that there is an absolutely mind boggling amount of data that is publicly accessible, or “open”, for anyone to access and use. And there is a powerful movement, which continues to gain popularity, that seeks to unlock, set free and make useful as much of the world’s data as possible. My guest for the 161st Terms of Reference Podcast, Pavel Richter, sits at one of the focal points of open data movement. He is is the CEO of Open Knowledge International, a worldwide non-profit network of people passionate about openness, using technology to unlock information, and enabling people to take action on pressing social problems. And, Pavel is no newbie to open data, before joining OKI, Pavel was Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutschland for 5 years, and pioneered the internationally acclaimed Wikidata project which is now the fastest growing project for open structured data. I’m sure you’ll enjoy our conversation, where we discuss topics such as what open data means, the ethics of open data, where open data “lives”, if open data used for “evil” and even how different cultures interpret what “open” means.

Die freie Verfügbarkeit und Nutzbarkeit von (öffentlichen) Daten ist immer noch ein Desiderat. Auch wenn die „Befreiung“ von Daten in jüngerer Zeit Fortschritte gemacht hat, tun sich gerade hierzulande immer noch große Widerstände auf. Im „Global Open Data Index“ befindet sich Deutschland nur auf Platz 26. Es gibt also noch viel zu tun, auch und gerade im Bereich von Wissenschaft und Forschung. Wir sprechen deshalb in dieser Folge mit Pavel Richter, der lange Zeit Geschäftsführer von „Wikimedia Deutschland“ war und heute in gleicher Funktion bei „Open Knowledge International“ tätig ist. Dort setzt er sich dafür ein, offenes Wissen zu erzeugen und zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure bei der Nutzung und Verbreitung zu unterstützen.