Open Source
Hadley Wickham - open source data wrangler
Data scientist Hadley Wickham is developing open source ways to help people collect and analyse the information that surrounds us every day. He's yet to meet a data set he doesn't like and loves… Audio
Geeks' gathering goes under the media radar
A titan of tech was in New Zealand last week along with hundreds of the world’s “alpha geeks” to talk about huge digital-age issues affecting us all. But none of it got mentioned in our media. Did it… Audio
Publons: solving the problem of peer review
Typically researchers who review others work as part of the publication process get little or nothing in return, and with the rate of publication increasing publishers are struggling to find enough… Audio
Taiwan: rebuilding democracy with tech
Last year, shortly after visiting New Zealand, Taiwanese political activist and civic hacker Audrey Tang was appointed as a Cabinet Minister with special responsibility for solving communication… Audio
SafariSeat: turning bike parts into an open-source wheelchair
Conventional wheelchairs aren't really an option in many parts of Africa; they're too expensive and they just can't handle the conditions. Janna Deeble grew up in Kenya and saw the problem for… Audio
Moves to adopt more Open Source Software
More software that's free to use and repurpose should be being produced by government agencies in future thanks to a new document which outlines how agencies can use and license Open Source Software… Audio
Big tech companies lock up health data
New wearable technologies and smartphones are sweeping up ever greater amounts of health information in real time and big tech companies are swiftly moving to find ways to turn that data into profit… Audio
Open source lab equipment
Specialist laboratory equipment costs an absolute fortune. The market's small and the markup's big, and a large portion of research money ends up getting swallowed buying kit. That's why an increasing… Audio
Open innovation
GitHub is an online community of some 9 million coders and web developers sharing computer code and working together. Brandon Keepers is its head of Open Source and he's in New Zealand talking about… Audio
3D Printed Robot
Eduardo Sandoval and Tim Pomroy are making a life-sized robot from 3D printed parts to study human-robot interactions Audio
3D Printed Robot
Eduardo Sandoval and Tim Pomroy are making a life-sized robot from 3D printed parts to study human-robot interactions Audio
Wikihouses
The "Wikihouse" is a new global open source building movement that's trying to revolutionise how we build our homes. Designers Danny Squires and Martin Luff are hoping wikihouses can play a part in… Audio
Tech news: open Office
Peter Griffin on some alternatives to Microsoft's Office 2003 suite of office products now technical support's been withdrawn. Audio
Arduino: open source hardware
Arduino is a cheap microcontroller, a bit like a computer, that you can program to do things. We're speaking to one of Arduino's inventors, Massimo Banzi, and also to Mayur Panchal and Baxter and Kahu… Audio
Feature Guest - Paul Fenwick
Australian Paul Fenwick, on getting more people involved in open source software and how difficult it is to have privacy in this high tech age. Audio
Open source living
Sam Muirhead is going a year without using any product that has any intellectual propery associated with it. Eating, wearing clothes and using technology will be among his many challenges. Audio