Data Power Conference

2015-06-22 15.40.00-1Over the last two days I participated in the first DATA POWER conference at Sheffield University which featured a great collection tracks, topics and speakers (see here for the programme).The conference took place in the beautiful Cutler’s Hall.

My presentation was entitled: Open government data practices: Producing ‘open publics’ through civic hacking and included some of the first thoughts and insights on my postdoc project. You may find the full presentation here. → presentation slides

ENGAGE: An innovative community platform on open government data

I had the great pleasure to participate in the final ENGAGE review yesterday in Brussels. ENGAGE is one of the most sophisticated platforms on open government data and open research data in Europe. Researchers, citizens, civil servants, journalists can work collaboratively on a large selection of data sets making use of advanced visualisation tools and multi-language features. Here is a link to their Website: ENGAGE DATA.