The Tech We Want Summit: Review the recordings of what was a great community moment in 2024

The event brought together our beloved community of technologists, practitioners and creators for two days to show that a different technology stack is possible.

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Panel: We are Making the Tech We Want

With the skills that the panellists have, it would be easier to work for the mainstream tech industry and just go with the flow. But they’ve all chosen a different path: making software that makes sense. In this conversation, we’ll share the trajectories of some open, free/libre, and alternative technologies, and discuss how to tip the scales in our favour amidst a solutionist discourse in an ultra-specialised industry.

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Our impressions after the Digital Public Goods Alliance Annual Members Meeting 2024

The meeting is a space for all members of the Alliance to get together once a year to discuss agendas, updates, next steps and participate in discussions about the future of Digital Public Goods.

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Report: Open Movement’s Common(s) Causes

This report outlines a shared advocacy strategy for the Knowledge Commons, based on a mapping of opportunities and threats facing the open movement that took place at Common(s) Cause, a Wikimania 2024 side event.

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Panel: The Tech We Want is Sustainable for People and the Planet

Eco, green, or simply sustainable technologies have several implicit meanings: long life, affordable maintenance, skilled people, resource-friendly, economical to use, renewable, regenerative, etc. In this panel, thinkers, practitioners and promoters of different aspects of software sustainability will discuss if and how it is possible to achieve a development model for people and the planet. Is there a way out of the disaster versus greenwashing narratives?

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Panel: The Tech We Want is Built and Maintained with Care

Digital technologies need people to care for them and keep them alive. In a time of obsession for innovation and disruption, in this panel we will shine a light on the invisible but essential work of maintenance.

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Open Knowledge Achieves US Charitable Organisations Equivalency Status

We’re thrilled to announce that the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) has achieved NGOsource Equivalency Determination (ED) certification, formally establishing our recognition as equivalent to a US public charity. This status represents a major milestone for OKFN and opens new avenues for partnerships and support from US-based donors and foundations.

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Mapping Openness in Europe: A Regional Meeting with Open Knowledge Foundation

The Europe regional call aimed to understand whether it would be helpful to map the connections between existing OFKN network and chapter members.

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Panel: The Tech We Want is Political

Since the Snowden revelations, citizen efforts have been focused in patching a broken system of surveillance, extractivism of people and the planet and rights erosion. This conversation will discuss the current state of the things and the viability of uniting technical and political efforts to move in a different direction.

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The Tech We DON’T Want: Bring your scary tech story to our Halloween

Next Thursday, October 31st, 11:00 CEST, come celebrate Halloween – or Buggyween – at this open meeting with the Open Knowledge Foundation team.

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Open Data Commons in the age of AI and Big Data

AI is bringing forth new types of capture, appropriation and enclosure of data that limits the realisation of its collective societal value.

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