Today, Ben Knapen, the Dutch State Secretary for development cooperation, presented the “Resultatenrapportage”, the “reporting of results” on Dutch efforts in development aid in the period 2009-2010 . He used the occassion to also present the first…
What are the effects of open development?
At “Open Data for Development Camp” in Amsterdam, Marijn Rijken of the Dutch research institute TNO presented on “open data opportunities in development”. Together, we’re now drafting a research proposal to gather answers on pertinent questions around …
Aid Transparency Barcamp Nepal on August 4th
Aid Transparency Barcamp Nepal, run jointly by YoungInnovationPvt. Ltd and aidinfo, is a conference to raise the awareness of the foreign aid scenario in Nepal. It intends to create a platform to initiate conversations and connections on the effective…
“Everything I need to know about open data, I learned from open source”
BoF BerlinBut what did we learn from open source? Two days of Open Knowledge Conference gave lots of food for thought. And lots of inspiration as well: plenty of projects doing interesting work, and experiences to share. And to add a cherry to the cake, we had a great “open lunch for development” with several people active in development aid. My (delayed) take-aways for Open for Change.
"World Bank Institute: We’re also the data bank"
At the Activate Conference, Aleem Walji of the World Bank Institute gave a brief overview about their first experiences with open data (their data catalogue website gets more visitors than their home page now, and Google translated the top indicators …
Open for discussion: the "Open for Change" Manifesto
Ever since we started networking as “development 2.0 pioneers”, we wanted to express our core values, so we can grow our network into a movement.
In January we adopted the name “Open for Change”, and worked to organise the world’s first “Open Data for …
Getting my GSM modem working under Ubuntu
Another “hack post”, to capture how I got mobile broadband working on my Sony laptop. Sony makes laptops with cutting-edge features (small, solid-state disk, full HD screen) and a stylish look, but doesn’t like to help you take full advantage of it unless you’re on Windows. Undocumented tweaks to the hardware, hard-to-find technical information, and so on.
I bought a Sony VPCZ1 (to be more precise: VPCZ13C5E) with a WWAN module installed, with the idea that I could be online anywhere, without any dongles sticking out, or having to connect by tethering it to my phone over Bluetooth or USB. I’ll pay the extra fee… provided it works.
I have installed Ubuntu 10.10 (which was an effort in itself), and went on an excursion to get mobile broadband running.