[Sorvi-admin] Join the Academic Track at Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki 17-22.9!

[Leo Lahti]

Terve - syyskuun kansainvälinen Open Knowledge-Festivaali lähestyy.
Tapahtuma sisältää sessioita, joilla on tarjottavaa myös suomalaiselle
tutkimusyhteisölle. Alla olevaa sähköpostiviestiä voi levittää sopivilla
listoilla.

t. Leo


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Join the Academic Track at Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki 17-22.9!

>From *17th - 22nd September 2012* in *Helsinki, *the world's first
international Open Knowledge Festival will take place! Join us for a week
of participatory sessions, keynote lectures, workshops, hackathons and
satellite events. The event will include 170 sessions structured around 13
key Topic Streams, which range from Government Transparency to Open
Hardware and beyond. Find out more: http://okfestival.org/

Get your ticket here: http://okfestival.org/early-bird-okfest-tickets/


The Open Research and Education
stream<http://okfestival.org/open-research-and-education/>will offer
presentations, panel discussions, workshops and hackathons
geared particularly towards the academic community. Some of the  highlights
include:

* Open Source Drug Discovery – a keynote address by Mat Todd from the
University of Sydney

* Open Science at the European Commission – an interactive discussion about
the European Commission’s new open access policy, led by Carl-Christian Buhr

* Open Access in Practice – How? – featuring representatives from the
Sanger Institute, the World Bank, the Open Access Index and Open Access
India.

* Communicating Science Openly – a panel discussion with representatives
from Wikimedia, academia and beyond.

* Immediate Access to Raw Data from Experiments – with Mark Hahnel
(Figshare), Mark Wainwright (CKAN) and Joss Winn (Orbital project,
University of Lincoln)

* The free Science and Culture
Hackday<http://okfestival.org/open-culture-and-science-hackday/>to
work together on projects, technologies and tools around open science.

In addition, the stream will feature book sprints, peer review sessions, a
social and much more! See the
program<http://okfestival.org/open-research-and-education/>for
details. Buy your ticket now to join hundreds of change-makers and
experts from private, public and community sectors and help build an
international open knowledge ecosystem with us in Helsinki.

On behalf of the Open Science and Education team,
Leo Lahti and Laura Newman
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