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Open Data Day

🇳🇬 Open Data Day 2025 in Owerri: Leveraging Open Data for Child Advocacy

Posted byby Leonard Onumajulu

🇳🇬 Open Data Day 2025 in Owerri: Leveraging Open Data for Child Advocacy

January 13, 2026

This text, part of the #ODDStories series, tells a story of Open Data Day‘s grassroots impact directly from the community’s voices. The event ‘Leveraging Open Data for Child Advocacy in…

Open Data Day

🇧🇩 Open Data Day 2025 in Sunamganj: Harnessing Open Data for Flood Preparedness

Posted byby Zobaer Rahman

🇧🇩 Open Data Day 2025 in Sunamganj: Harnessing Open Data for Flood Preparedness

January 13, 2026

This text, part of the #ODDStories series, tells a story of Open Data Day‘s grassroots impact directly from the community’s voices. On March 4, 2025, the YouthMappers Chapter at the…

Newsletter

Posted byby OKFN

🚀 Trustworthy AI for the Open Data Ecosystem – OKFN Newsletter End-of-Year 2025

December 18, 2025

Annual Report, New Partnerships, Digital Public Goods, CKAN and Open Data Editor, Open Science and more.

Open Data Editor

Open Data Editor in Action: Advancing Data Quality in Academic Library Services in India

Posted byby OKFN

Open Data Editor in Action: Advancing Data Quality in Academic Library Services in India

December 9, 2025

The Central Library of IIT Delhi used ODE to help identify errors in large spreadsheets and educate colleagues on key aspects of data quality

Open Data Editor

Open Data Editor in Action: Interrogating Data for Investigative Journalism in Mexico

Posted byby OKFN

Open Data Editor in Action: Interrogating Data for Investigative Journalism in Mexico

November 28, 2025

ODE helped Data Crítica to quickly identify reliable variables for their data journalism investigations and ensure their stories are built on solid foundation

Frictionless Data

Frictionless Data Community Call November 2025

Posted byby Renu Kumari

Frictionless Data Community Call November 2025

November 27, 2025

At our last call we discussed the Zenodo Integration of the Data Package and an Action Plan for the community reactivation in 2026.

The Tech We Want

[VIDEO] Meet Open Knowledge’s Digital Public Goods

Posted byby OKFN

[VIDEO] Meet Open Knowledge’s Digital Public Goods

November 26, 2025

OKFN is the proud creator and one of the maintainers of two officially recognised digital public goods (DPGs): CKAN and Open Data Editor (ODE).

Advocacy

Open letter: Harnessing open source AI to advance digital sovereignty

Posted byby OKFN

Open letter: Harnessing open source AI to advance digital sovereignty

November 13, 2025

Dear President Macron,Dear Chancellor Merz,Dear President von der Leyen, Europe is at a crossroads. The Summit on European Digital Sovereignty marks an important milestone for the EU and its member…

100+Conversations

Travis Gerke: ‘Academia is still very supportive of the singular hero scientist. But most things take teams’

Posted byby OKFN

Travis Gerke: ‘Academia is still very supportive of the singular hero scientist. But most things take teams’

November 11, 2025

Biostatistician and epidemiologist Travis Gerke joins us to discuss the barriers to open science, the promise and pitfalls of AI, and why we need to rethink how we share health data

Open Data Editor

Open Data Editor in Action: Bridging the Gap Between Field Data and Research Insights in Ghana

Posted byby OKFN

Open Data Editor in Action: Bridging the Gap Between Field Data and Research Insights in Ghana

November 10, 2025

Open Science Community Ghana (OSCG) was able to streamline its work with agricultural data, significantly reduce the time needed to identify and correct errors, and introduce open data concepts to a non-technical team