The U.S. Department of Education announced today the launch of #GoOpen, a campaign to encourage states, school districts and educators to use openly licensed educational materials. As part of the campaign, the Department is proposing a new regulation that would require all copyrightable intellectual property created with Department grant funds to have an open license. … Read more
Institutions seeking to adopt the Open Data Charter should release a high-level public statement (issued by the Head of State, Minister, Secretary, Deputy Secretary, or other appropriate official) that articulates the adoption of the Open Data Charter and defines the following four key elements: Appointment of a key ministry, department, or agency, including a direct … Read more
Technology is transforming global cities. But we need to think hard about who controls a system where all people and things are tracked, all of the time. There’s the tank factory in Beijing that they have turned into an arts complex. There are the coffee joints around Tahrir Square, Cairo, where hijab-wearing women hunch over … Read more
LibrePlanet 2016 March 19-20 Greater Boston Register now LibrePlanet is an annual conference for people who care about their digital freedoms, bringing together software developers, policy experts, activists, and computer users to learn skills, share accomplishments, and face challenges to software freedom. Newcomers are always welcome, and LibrePlanet 2016 will feature sessions for a wide … Read more
GDELT monitors the world’s news media from nearly every corner of every country in print, broadcast, and web formats, in over 100 languages, every moment of every day. Global Reach GDELT monitors print, broadcast, and web news media in over 100 languages from across every country in the world to keep continually updated on … Read more
Open Education Europa has compiled and is releasing today as open data the analytical list of European Repositories of Open Educational Resources (OER). Open Education Europa: The European Hub for Innovation in Education from Open Education Europa The Open Education Europa portal: a key player to improve visibility of high-quality European OER The main goal of … Read more
The Collabora flavour of LibreOffice aimed at the public sector, officially rebranded GovOffice, will allow agencies to deploy the free office suite, leading to savings on Microsoft Office license fees and Collabora’s own licenses. According to an inside source, UK Government officials have been tasked with saving millions of pounds in tech spending nationwide, and … Read more
Not too long ago, free fonts were either low-quality or utilitarian, designed to substitute for common proprietary fonts like Times Roman or Helvetica. Today, however, a small but growing number of free-licensed fonts can match the best proprietary fonts. If you doubt that statement, consider the nine fonts listed below. The diagram below will give … Read more
From scientific research to lawmaking, open access enables participation Open access is the practice of making research available online, for free, ideally under licenses that permit widespread dissemination. This year’s theme for Open Access Week is “open for collaboration,” and that theme hits on what’s really exciting about open access. Open access—both in academia and … Read more
France’s policies on open source and open data are helping to create a market for French ICT service providers, says Didier Tranchier, Professor of Innovation Management at Institut Mines-Telecom, a research institute. Professor Tranchier, who coaches and invests in high tech companies, spoke at the Mindtrek OpenMind conference in Tampere (Finland) in September. “Open data, … Read more
