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" BBC Radio 4 'In Business' with Peter day 11th Jan 2007. A great introduction to 'open source'. The history and future of the phenomenon of open source computing. This is highly relevant to our July 4th KIN Workshop on 'open innovation' where we will explore whether the open-source model can apply to other business innovation."

"Ashley Good from Toronto, Canada is recognized as no less than "a world expert on failure". Working on several development projects around the world she was faced with the need to address the inefficiencies, and sometimes ineffectiveness of development work. Based on her experience she created AdmittingFailure.com and FailForward.org in 2010 to spark a shift in how civil society perceives and talks about failure. In her opening keynote titled "What's So Great About Failure?" at FailCon Oslo June 6, 2013 she shares her story and some ideas for the audience to apply the Fail Forward approach to their contexts."

Syngenta is a global agriculture business that helps farmers make better use of their available resources, primarily through agrochemical and seed production. In order to continue to advance crop productivity, it invested more than $1.4bn in research and development (R&D) across 150 international sites in 2014.

Nick Temple is one of our speakers at the KIN Winter 2012 workshop

" Tim O'Reilly mashes it up... In the first segment of a two-part interview, technology guru Tim O'Reilly outlines his views on open source in an interview with the BBC World Service programme Go Digital. "

It's a BIG presentation - takes a while to download and open (doesn't seem to work in Chrome at all)

ounded in 2004 we're a not-for-profit organization promoting open knowledge: that's any kind of information - sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata - that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed.

Stephen Wolfram and his team have created an astonishingly powerful collection of information. As he puts it on the Wolfram blog, the dream is to make this "computable knowledge" available to immediately enhance any program that's connected to the service. Today's announcement is a big step forward to opening it up to far more developers, but it will need much more computer-readable results before it will really fulfill that promise. Do you agree, or am I misunderstanding the power of the API as it is right now? Are there existing applications beyond the handful that Wolfram highlight?

"EdCast is a Silicon Valley based company founded by serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Karl Mehta. EdCast's Open Knowledge cloud platform, built on OpenEdx, allows anyone to create a platform to host their own online classes."

Amazon is pursuing an open-systems approach that allows quick development of many features, while Apple is taking a slower route, asserting more control over the technology in order to assure security and ease-of-use.

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"In Outside Innovation, Patricia Seybold, argues that the only way organizations can break out of the pack is to open up their entire business to passionate customers and welcome them into every aspect of product and service design."

"This book explains the power of collaborative production; a compendium of ways to throw open previously guarded intellectual property and to invite in previously unavailable ideas that hide within the populace at large. A primer for mass collaboration possibilities. This review link is to Amazon.com. It is also available from Amazon.co.uk "

Following Richard Wallis' presentation at the KIN Winter Workshop, here is a great example of how open linked data can add value, managed by LGID

while you write your blog post in Blogger, Zemanta opens up a sidebar next to the Blogger post editor. After you've written a few sentences, Zemanta analyzes the words in your post and suggests images and video that are relevant to your post; with one click, it inserts them into your post.

Microsoft Professional Program in AI, the latest learning track open to the public. The program provides job-ready skills and real-world experience to engineers and others who are looking to improve their skills in AI and data science through a series of online courses that feature hands-on labs and expert instructors.

"Relying on counterfactual explanations as a means to help us act rather than merely to understand could help us gauge the scope and impact of automated decisions in our lives. They might also help bridge the gap between the interests of data subjects and data controllers, which might otherwise be a barrier to a legally binding right to explanation."