Category: 4.1 Society (General)
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Call for proposals: 2nd Open Data Dialog
November 18-19, 2013, Berlin “Open data has the potential to transform society, government and the economy, from how we travel to work to how we decide to vote,” declared Rufus Pollock, co-founder of Open Knowledge Foundation, at the 1st International Open Data Dialog, which took place in December 2012 in Berlin. With this year’s motto…
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Call for participation: OC13 – Open Commons Kongress in Linz, Austria, 2013-05-14
Please consider participating in the Open Commons Kongress, OC13, in Linz, Austria (I’m on the advisory board.) More information below (in German). [DR] OC13 – Open Commons Kongress 14.05.2013, 9:00 – 16:30 Uhr Wissensturm Linz, Austria Lernen und Leben mit digitalen Gemeingütern Zum zweiten Mal veranstaltet die Johannes Kepler Universität Linz und die Open Commons…
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Looking back on one year of public policy consulting
2012 was the year when I first did some serious public policy consulting. I found it quite informative to see how politicians work and what the impact of lobbyists is. I’m a professor of computer science at a German technical university. I also have an M.B.A. from Stanford. I consult on open source, software development,…