MCP for Open Data Portals: Trust Depends on Understanding the Data
Early lessons from OKFN’s Brazil and Uruguay pilots on what it takes to make AI-generated answers traceable, useful, and trustworthy
Roundtable Recap: How to digitise a physical archive to work strategically with AI?
This time, we learned from initiatives around the world that have breathed new life into dusty archives using both open and non-open technologies
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[Webinar] Traceable AI for Public Data: An Open Model for Latin America
Join OKFN and the UN Big Data Regional Hub to learn about our ongoing experiments integrating AI to public open data portals
We are learning AI by doing – OKFN Newsletter May 2026
AI Learning Labs, neurotech, public data, Open Technology Symposium, and more.
Announcing the Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 in Barcelona
We hope you will join us from 26–27 October at the historic University of Barcelona as we translate evidence-based research into actionable policy.
How can we build a responsible climate chatbot?
In one of our very first AI Learning Labs projects, we are teaming up to explore how to design a chatbot that draws on reliable science and systemic social analysis
The Neurotech Booth at RightsCon That Never Happened
What testing commercial neurotech has taught us, and why these technologies require informed engagement now.
Learning together, building together – OKFN Newsletter April 2026
AI Learning Labs, RightsCon, knowledge commons as critical digital infrastructure, Open Technology Research, and more.
Join Open Knowledge at RightsCon 2026, Zambia
Our team and network will discuss pressing issues such as reimagining AI, experiencing brain-computer interfaces, leveraging digital public goods, and more; check the full agenda
Introducing OKFN’s AI Learning Labs
We are partnering with organisations on high-impact social issues to experiment with AI and develop replicable methods together; you can join us
An Honest Reflection on the Integration of LLMs into Open Data Portals
‘We don’t trust AI,’ claims OKFN's Tech Lead in this text, in which he offers his sharp views on one of today's most pressing challenges