Making AI work for communities – OKFN Newsletter June 2026
AI and open data, archives and climate, BrainCommons, SkyCommons, MCP, CKAN, and more.
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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
New Uruguay/OKFN Partnership: Scaling reliable AI for open data across Latin America
Together with AGESIC, we are piloting a traceable AI system with Uruguay’s open data catalogue – so that citizens can receive verifiable answers from national data
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.
Brazil and OKFN partner to enable citizens to ‘talk’ to national data
Together, we are developing a tool that will bring public data closer to citizens, allowing them to get data by simply asking a question.
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
‘The Future of Open Data’: Video Documentation
Relive the online conference that brought the open data community together for a celebration of two decades of CKAN and to discuss the role of open data and data infrastructures today.