[open-economics] Call for Participation: First Open Economics International Workshop

Tue Sep 18 22:11:35 UTC 2012

Hi John,

Thanks for your mail.

The workshop is aimed at generating impact and change in economic
research, so economic history as a branch is certainly relevant. The
aspects of getting data, as well as the licensing issues are crucial.
So I would suggest you sign up, stating your exact background,
interests and skill sets so we can consider your formal application.

In the meantime, if you are interested in open data issues in
economics, I highly suggest you join the Open Economics Mailing List
at:

http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-economics

Talk to you soon,

Guo

On 18 September 2012 20:08, John Levin <john at anterotesis.com> wrote:
> On 17/09/2012 13:26, Velichka Dimitrova wrote:
>>
>> *Dear all,*
>> *
>> *
>> We just published a Call for Participation blog post about the first
>> Open Economics International workshop:
>> http://openeconomics.net/2012/09/17/open_economics_workshop/
>> *
>> *
>> *We would like to invite PhD students and academics with relevant
>> experience and research focus to apply to participate in the first Open
>> Economics International Workshop, which would take place on December
>> 17-18, 2012 in Cambridge, UK.
>>
>> The aim of the workshop is to build an understanding of the value of
>> open data and open tools for the Economics profession and the obstacles
>> to opening up information, as well as the role of greater openness in
>> broadening understanding of and engagement with Economics among the
>> wider community including policy-makers and society.
>>
>
> Could I ask if economic history would be relevant to this? Although I'm
> about to start a Phd relating to debt in the c18th, my interest here is more
> in getting historical series of data (such as prices etc) made available
> under free licenses, making it easily findable, browsable and hackable.
>
> I'm also interested in making the works of economic theorists freely
> available, in quality editions, a la open philosophy.
>
> John
>
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