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OKAU Board nominations

As discussed in the recent Board meeting there was an action for me to post on the process for rotating new people in through the OKAU Board. My suggestion was that two people each 3 month period would be obliged to vacate their their position. At this time any other nominations would be received for the […]

August Board Meeting for Open Knowledge Australia

Notes from board meeting: Intro discussion topic:<– Nick, Fiona, Flanders and questions from the board via Etherpad ODI Discussion: “activists vs economists”? Economic value of Open Data report? http://www.omidyar.com/insights/open-business Economists: efficiency gains, civil info, etc. Activists: petition signing, transparency of wealthy coporations, etc. 6:03pm start welcome to August meeting 5 items of agenda – timed […]

Opening Genomic data – it’s debateable

On a night threatening rain about 25 people came together to discuss Open Genomics in a lab at the Edge, overlooking the Brisbane river. The debate was led by two experts: Mark Crowe, a BioInformatics Scientist and Naveen Sharma, an Information Risk and Compliance Manager. Mark spoke in favour of opening genomic data and his […]