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How to open a bank account in Sweden without personal or coordination number?

Bank Officers in Sweden declines students or new arrivals to open bank account but what they are doing is actually against the law and regulations. If you can prove your identity then you are entitled to have a bank account. … Continue reading

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Girls in Tech

What makes me happy is that when I see my old students coming to my courses as a guest and hold a session not only as a student who took the course but as an entrepreneur/innovator. I had this happiness … Continue reading

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Clarity Conference in Skellefteå

We had our final, closing conference of EU Funded Clarity project in Slellefteå. It was pleasure to be hosted by Skellefteå manicupality and as well as be part of the panelist at the conference. You may check the conference webpage, … Continue reading

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Swedish Entrepreneurship Education Presentation for German Guests

I was invited to participate  BildungsLab education conference  in Stockholm. Invitation came on behalf of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Nordic Countries Project) and International Institute of Sustainability Management (SRH-Hochschule Berlin). There were around 20 invited experts from both countries.  I think we had  productive … Continue reading

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Software that Harvest Student Homework

Palagarism is big issue. Due to vast amount of submissions universities decided to use special software to check whether content of the homeworks are novel or not. These software does not state that should be accepted as novel or not  … Continue reading

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Academic Publication Business Model

It puzzles me when I see existing structure of publication system. It is a great business, in deed. Imagine that, you are a software company, where most of your employees are contractors that work for free.  Your main employees are … Continue reading

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Do We Need Libraries?

When we are discussing open egovernment services, we should also consider not only “goverment” related services but openness of other services, too. We work towards drivers and changes on open egovernment services with our Clarity CSR project. Considering our work … Continue reading

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How Handelsbanken Can Provide Better Service with their DebitCard

I do not know what to do because I recall that I complained about it  via customer support but nothing changed. I think it is better that I write it publicly, I start to feel that it became only way … Continue reading

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My personal story of #OpenStockholm

We received an email from  our divisions IT administrator, that there was an emergency situation and we should not go to city center, then I checked dn.se and saw what happened. I had just had a lunch with a friend … Continue reading

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Summary of 2016 for Open Knowledge Sweden

This the post that is we submit to OKI website. Year 2016 was a productive year this year. We would like to list some of these projects below. Open Knowledge Sweden  (OKSweden) collaborated with KTH- Royal Institute of Technologies Industrial … Continue reading

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