Over the past year I have been part of a great, small team in the EU H2020-funded Distributed Design Project (initially titled ‘Distributed Design Market Platform’) to put together a book that outlines the current state of ‘distributed design’: A new emerging field in which technology, makers and new design practices challenges how things are […] Read More…
Last week we had the pleasure of publishing the ‘Made With Creative Commons’ book on Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books as well as promote it at the Creative Commons Global Summit 2017. The book is the third publication of the Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books venture that I am running with Niels Peter Hvillum and which aim to “explore topics such as knowledge sharing, […] Read More…
On March 9 2016, with the new publishing company Ctrl+Alt+Delete Books I’ve started with Niels Peter Hvillum, we published our first book, ‘TagTomat: Vejen til grønne fællesskaber i byen’, which translates to something along the lines of ‘RooftopTomate: The path to green urban communities’. The book is put together and compiled by Mads Lauritsen from TagTomat; […] Read More…
. This week Creative Commons, the non-profit for which I do volunteer work, released their annual State of the Commons report, which outlines the developments of CC-license usage around the world as well as the general state of sharing culture in general. Overall things are progressing tremendously and this year we passed an important threshold: More […] Read More…
. BIG NEWS! We’re making a book about Platform 4 – a tale about all the years of art and technology, projects, events and ideas written by some of the international superstars that visited as well as local Platform 4 die-hards. But we need your help. To raise funds we’re launching a KICKSTARTER CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN […] Read More…
This past Saturday was global Open Data Day, and in more than 300 cities worldwide volunteer open data advocates organized events to promote not only open data, but “open-everything” culture. So we did in Copenhagen; in a collaboration between Open Knowledge Denmark, Wikimedia Denmark and the Danish Open Street Map community we held […] Read More…
. Today marks the one year anniversary of Open Knowledge Denmark, the Danish Local Group of the international Open Knowledge network. The group was booted a year ago and in the past year we’ve organized a series of events including an electoral data sprint, a workshop about the European patent system, a screening of Tactical Tech’s Exposing […] Read More…
. . Inspired by the many discussions surrounding the release of the Aaron Swartz documentary, “The Internet Own Boy”, I’ve put together a blog post with some thoughts about the future of science and the challenges we’re facing as a society with our current academic knowledge financial schemes: These past few weeks have highlighted the […] Read More…
. . For the sake of convenience I’ve gone through the toil of making what I believe (and hope) is a complete overview of all Danish projects that use Creative Commons licenses – at least the ones I know of as Public Lead for CC Denmark. Check it out here – and a short introduction to the […] Read More…
Aaron Schwartz, who sadly passed away last year, is an iconic front figure of the open movement and needs no introduction. One of his most powerful creations was the formulation of his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, which outlines not only the failures of the global proprietary academic publishing scheme which silos scientific, academic and […] Read More…
