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The official voice of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

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December 9, 2025

Open Knowledge Foundation and datHere Announce New Partnership to Strengthen Open, FAIR, AI-Ready Data Infrastructure Powered by CKAN

The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) and datHere have established a new partnership to advance open standards and AI-ready data infrastructure tooling, standards and practices. The collaboration aims to help develop…

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December 9, 2025

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

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

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December 8, 2025

New Field Guide: ‘The Tech We Want | Who Decides? A Quick Guide to Governance’

We at OKFN are questioning our own practices and learning how to do things anew. This new publication compiles some of these processes and invites you to put your community first.

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November 28, 2025

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

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

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November 26, 2025

[VIDEO] Meet Open Knowledge’s Digital Public Goods

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

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November 20, 2025

OpenForum Europe, Open Source Initiative, and Open Knowledge Foundation Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Open Technology Research

The Open Technology Research Network (OTRN) will strengthen the global open technology research community and advance evidence-based policymaking around open technologies.

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November 13, 2025

Open letter: Harnessing open source AI to advance digital sovereignty

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…

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November 11, 2025

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

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

Posted byby OKFN
November 10, 2025

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

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

Posted byby OKFN
November 10, 2025

Open Data Editor in Action: Enhancing Fiscal Governance and Transparency in South African Municipalities

ODE helped PARI restructure messy public financial datasets into a clean, consistent format, making them more presentable and ready for reliable analysis

Open Technology Research Officially Launches to Strengthen Global Research Community

The Road to a Press Freedom AI Commons

Open Knowledge Foundation Priorities for the 2025 OGP

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

Andrés Vázquez: ‘90% of technological problems can be solved with tools that have been around for decades’

Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’

Our Network Contribution to Shape the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy

School of Data Returns: Scaling Digital Literacy Through Trainer Multipliers

Presentation & Expert Roundtable: ‘From Software to Society — Openness in a Changing World’