Helsinki, 3 October 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
A recent Finnish study on the impact of marginal cost pricing of geo-data or making it freely available, in contrast to full cost pricing, has now been published in English. The study is titled Does Marginal Cost Pricing of Public Sector...
Tampere, 21 September 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
The first large scale event on data driven journalism in Finland is taking place next week on 29 September, in Tampere.
The event brings together journalists, coders, media companies, academics and others. The event aims to create a...
Amsterdam, 16 September 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
During the three day PICNIC conference and festival in Amsterdam last week, one of the little buildings in the makeshift conference city that was build on the former NDSM shipyard was dedicated to cooking with data: the Helsinki Data Studio.
In the...
Helsinki, 30 June 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
The Finnish guide "Public Data - an introduction to opening information resources" has been translated into English. The availability of this guide in English is hopefully of use to governments and public service bodies all over Europe who are taking first steps in making government held information and data resources...
Helsinki, 27 June 2011
(by Ton Zijlstra)
The 2011 edition of the Apps4Finland competition is under way again. Entries will be accepted until 23 October 2011. You can compete in four categories: ideas, applications, data visualizations, and opening data sets.
There are also special prices for data...
