Earlier this week I had the pleasure of appearing on Danish national public radio Denmark’s Radio, in the technology program “Harddisken”. The topic of discussion was ‘The decentral web’, where we talk aboutdata silos, web ethics and privacy in addressing how today’s web measures up against the ideals on which it was built. […] Read More…
. . I had the pleasure of talking to national newspaper Børsen about the REMODEL program which I am developing in Danish Design Centre: An initiative to explore how manufacturing businesses can use open source methodology and principles to develop environmentally sustainable and economically sound business models in the manufacturing of physical products. Click here or on […] Read More…
. . Back in November I had the pleasure of attending and contributing to this years Smart City Expo and World Congress, which takes place in beautiful Barcelona. The event aims to present useful and up-to-date knowledge about smart cities based on real experiences and practices, as well as to debate about future visions, goals and challenges […] Read More…
. . National newspaper Politiken today has an extended article on copyright reform, which is being discussed heavily across Europe right now (following a hearing in the EU Commission) and I was asked for a comment. Composer’s guilds and rights organizations are heavily criticizing the very idea of reforming copyright towards allowing more sharing, where […] Read More…
. . Last week there was an interesting article in Danish national newspaper Information, which explained how Norway are planning to digitize and release all of their written cultural heritage – all of it: books, magazines, articles, etc. – and to make it freely available to all Norwegian citizens. This prompted me to comment on […] Read More…
During the recent Open Government Partnership Summit in London in late October, I was interviewed by a tv-news crew from The Guardian about the strengths of open governance. The short clip can be seen below. Caption: Christian Villum of the Open Knowledge Foundation says the Open Government Partnership Summit is a good way to […] Read More…
This morning I had the pleasure of getting up extremely early to visit Radio 24-7’s morning show with Danny Kreutzfeldt (aka. Periskop), whose album we’ll be releasing on our Uhrlaut label on Friday. The album consists of no less than 40 full length albums packaged as 1 vinyl LP and 39 digital releases on a […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Copenhagen, Copyright, Creative Commons, Culture, Interviews, Media, Music, Sharing, Uhrlaut
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Tagged electronic music, Periskop, Radio24syv
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. . A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed again in connections with a city development theme, this time by Dagbladet Holstebro – a regional newspaper from the city of Holstebro, a provincial city a couple of hundred kilometers south of Aalborg. There they are dealing with an abandoned meat packing complex in the […] Read More…
It’s busy times right now; we’ve moved Platform4 from the old venue to the new, launched the PlayForm Mobile Art & Technology Exhibition and released a new EP with Tone – while at the same time trying out a new rather rebellious sharing experiment in Aalborg, Aarhus and Copenhagen. To start from the end: The […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Aalborg, Aarhus, Activism, Art, Copenhagen, Copyright, Interviews, Media, Music, Open culture, Platform4, Sharing, Technology, Uhrlaut
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Tagged #platform4dk, Aalborg, Black Duck EP, Denmark, Henrik Daldorph, IFPI, Illutron, Jyllandsposten, Labitat, Nordjyske, Platform4, PlayForm, technology, Tone, TV2Nord, Uhrlaut Records
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People attending some of my recent talks have been kind enough to feedback online with their impression of the sessions – which I really appreciate. After my talk at MultimediaDays at Aarhus Business Academy last week, Jeanne Bødker Nissen wrote this one on the Multimediedesigner blog: Spændende oplæg om Creative Commons (in Danish) Also Berit […] Read More…
By Christian Villum
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Also posted in Creative Commons, Interviews, Media, Music, Open culture, Platform4, Presentations, Sharing, Uhrlaut
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Tagged Aarhus Business Academy, Danmarks Radio, DR, free music, KODA, LOC, MultiMediaDays, music business, Politiken, VIBE
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