[Okfn-se] [Okfn-dk] question : suggestions for nordic cooperation

Mattias | OKFSE mattias at okfn.se
Wed Aug 12 16:45:19 UTC 2015


Thank you for your contribution Thomas! It reminded me of an idea I have
had for a while about what OK Nordics easily can do. I have mentioned it
earlier to some but not on lists. It goes close in line with Thomas
suggestion and that is School of Data for the Nordics with specific
target groups. It is a concrete and dynamic project example. I think I
mentioned in my earlier e-mail as it is also applicable to giving
courses online & through adult educational centers in Sweden.

There's actually right now a perfect project funding opportunity for it
from IIS (https://iis.se) in Sweden. We can (and hopefully will) apply
at Internetfonden (http://internetfonden.se/) for this suggestion
Thomas' wrote. It would be great to have all of OK Nordics on board
supporting & committing. Why? Because we can gain chances of getting
economic support. And if we do the main work or collaborate around it,
we can localise it easily throughout or after the project.

It is the perfect timing in this funding opportunity because it has an
OER focus
(https://www.internetfonden.se/om/oppna-digitala-larresurser/). If we
get the project support and create a great course then it can also make
it into IIS' course material used in Webbstjärnan (The Web Star).
Webbstjärnan is their educational offer for schools. It promotes schools
and their teachers and pupils who embrace the open Internet to the best
extent. School of Data with Open Data course material would go hand in
glove with that. Would this be an interesting thing to apply for,
collaborate around but also bring to the workshop meeting? I definitely
think so. Let's arrange a call about it @Miska, @Thomas and whomever
wants to join (looking at you OK Iceland, Norway & Denmark! :)

Best,
Mattias
http://okfn.se/

On 2015-08-12 11:21, Thomas Kvist wrote:
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> Hi Miska and everyone!
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> Empowering individual citizens is of course  a good thing but I think
> that the NGO:s is forgotten in the Open Data context. I guess that
> quite small associations (föreningar) involved in youth football, all
> kinds of culture etc is a significant part of the life in at least the
> smaller cities. Empowering those associations would empower the
> citizens. I think some kind of education package describing and
> exemplifying how Open Data empowers NGO:s could be created on a nordic
> basis. It should preferably be webbased and involve cooperation with
> other similar associations in other nordic countries. A theatre group
> in Denmark cooperates with theatre group in Sweden when doing the
> course etc.
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> Regards
> Thomas
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> *Från:*okfn-se [mailto:okfn-se-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *För *miska knapek
> *Skickat:* den 11 augusti 2015 13:33
> *Till:* Martin Malthe Borch
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> okfn-se at lists.okfn.org; okfn-is at lists.okfn.org; Okfn Dk
> *Ämne:* Re: [Okfn-se] [Okfn-dk] question : suggestions for nordic
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> Hey Martin,
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> Very good plan. That would be very cool. 
> From sustainable decentralised energy power to sustainable
> decentralised people power :) 
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> On 8 August 2015 at 01:37, Martin Malthe Borch <mmborch at gmail.com
> <mailto:mmborch at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> One idea..
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> I would suggest that we organise a one week summer curse on a peoples
> highschool (Folkehøjskole).
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> This movement have already been central to the development of the
> Scandinavian democracy and was the free educational frame in which one
> of the first big wind turbines where build.
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> Who knows maybe it could develop into a full program at the school and
> a yearly summer event where people could meet chat and collaborate..
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> 2015-08-06 10:01 GMT+02:00 miska knapek <miska at knapek.org
> <mailto:miska at knapek.org>>:
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>     Hey good open data/knowledge folks,
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>     Forgive me for being a bit vague, but I promise it’s to your
>     benefit ;) (erhm… though maybe not entirely “open” ;)
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>     I wonder whether you'd care to offer some ideas and reflections on
>     Nordic cooperation. Some of us inter-Nordic ones will meet
>     physically to discuss what can be done, and how, in terms of
>     developing Nordic cooperation in open data/knowledge, at the end
>     of the month.
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>     It would be really great to gather some ideas from civil society
>     about what kind of efforts that could be good and what kind of
>     activities one could run, in a Nordic open data context.
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>     Though it’s very kind of governments being the primary pushers of
>     this workshop, I fear there might be some ‘innovation’ centric
>     ideas being pursued. It would be good to balance this out with
>     some civil society perspectives.
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>     This is where you come in :)
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>     While of course, a lot of things are primarily realised on a
>     national level, as there are many impressive Nordic examples of,
>     there are initiatives that are easier realised once there's Nordic
>     Council / governmental pressure to realise things, such as
>     something that could come out of a Nordic cooperation (and maybe
>     even some government support :)
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>     We need ideas and things to suggest.
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>     Please list ideas where Nordic cooperation could be good - eg.
>     ideas that aren't possible to realise locally due to political
>     pressure, lack of people, data, and/or funding. Or just mention
>     project that would be great to do internationally, in the Nordics :)
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>     Any notes are very welcome!
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>     Thanks and all the best,
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>     miska
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