We are @OKFN initiative in #Ireland empowering #openknowledge by making useful publicly funded Irish data open, usable and used.

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"Our mission is to create a more open world – a world where all non-personal information is open, free for everyone to use, build on and share; and creators and innovators are fairly recognised and rewarded." #openknowledge #opendata #opendataIRL
15 years ago the Open Knowledge Foundation was founded blog.okfn.org/2004/05/24/ope…. We look forward to continue working towards a fair and free knowledge economy for another 15 years: join us to work towards a more open future blog.okfn.org/2019/05/20/for… #OKF15
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28 Oct 2019
Thanks for sharing, will be looking forward to reading! #informationsupportingcommunities - work of Pobal is here: maps.pobal.ie/ because yes, we need more open data for the public good @OKFirl

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So happy and so proud to see people enjoying @MoLI_Museum ! I ❤️❤️❤️ my job and tonight I feel like the luckiest person ever! @NLIreland @ucddublin @kmcsharry @kellehmv @simplesimon_ie My face hurts from smiling so much ☺️
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#RT: To my knowledge, this is the first #OpenAccess and 100% reproducible #PhDThesis since the establishment of @unibirmingham in 1900. 📗Thesis: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.33841… 💻Github: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.33842… 📄Website,🖼️slides,📺video,📎links more: mxochicale-phd.github.io/sit…
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Here is why a global censorship-resilient openly licensed distributed infrastructure needed for long-term preservation of scientific research outcomes (data, code, papers) in interoperable, verifiable and discoverable formats. #DaMaHub
Geopolitics / cybersecurity enters the world of scholarly publishing and peer reviewer choices. "IEEE bans Huawei scientists from reviewing papers". The publisher says it feared “severe legal implications" from continuing to use Huawei scientists. sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/…
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Seeing such hype, fear, and excitement about the rollout of 5G, I thought I'd share this brilliant piece by @TheRegister debunking its major myths. Well, well worth a read. theregister.co.uk/2019/04/25…
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Note for @IRLDeptPER
Celebrating 15 years of @okfn: Our world-leading open source #CKAN software has been used to publish more than 2 million open datasets. There are hundreds of deployments around the world including those from governments in the USA, UK and Brazil: bit.ly/30vI8l7 #opendata
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'a “serious deficiency” in providing even the most basic information on the health service. It was “beyond disgraceful” for instance that Ireland was unable to provide a breakdown of healthcare costs by age, as most other European countries do.' << legacy of @R1chardatron & Co.