Around the web in week 42, 2012

Fundstücke published this week:

Privacywaakhond: privacybeleid Google in strijd met Europese regels16 Oct 2012, Janneke SlöetjesOp 16 oktober 2012 maakte de Franse privacywaakhond CNIL bekend dat Googles privacy policy in strijd…

Around the web in week 41, 2012

Fundstücke published this week:

Maakt het ons makkelijker, dat kost minder9 Oct 2012, Rejo ZengerIedereen is het er over eens: de Wet openbaarheid van bestuur (Wob) werkt eigenlijk niet en moet wor…

Open Knowledge Festival

A few weeks ago, in September, the Open Knowledge Festival brought together a world-wide community of people working on all sorts of “open”: open cities, open design, open government, open science, open hardware, open education, … and of course: ope…

The drugs don’t work: a modern medical scandal

The drugs don’t work: a modern medical scandal: The Guardian published an edited extract from Bad Pharma, by Ben Goldacre. A horrific story of where we have let the pharma industry take us. As terrible as the global banking crisis, with people actually…

Around the web in week 39, 2012

Fundstücke published this week:

How policy actors engage with information systems, and where knowledge intermediaries could best add value28 Sep 2012, S.J. BatchelorThis is a draft report to share some interim findings from the study – ‘Inf…

New publication: business intelligence in the aid sector

Announing a new publication: “An Information Platform for Business Intelligence in the Aid Sector based on Open Data and Documents; Integrated Access to structured and unstructured data using the document-oriented database CouchDB”, by Michiel Kuijper…

A protocol for IATI implementation by CSOs: your comments, please!

The International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) provides a standard to publish information on aid activities, and is intended to be used by (and useful for) all actors in development aid.
Interest is definitely growing and several organisations ar…

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