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The official voice of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Posted byby OKFN
April 14, 2025

Open Data Editor in Action: Multiple defence spending data sources in a single quality spreadsheet

The Observatoire des armements was able to streamline its work with statistics on arms purchases and sales in France, significantly reduce the time needed to identify and correct errors, and train the team to work with open data.

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March 25, 2025

Announcing our new course: Quality and Consistent Data with the Open Data Editor

Part of our goal in developing the Open Data Editor (ODE) this year is to increase digital literacy among key communities. We’re thrilled to introduce our latest learning resource: a free, hands-on course designed to help non-technical users improve their data skills.

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March 20, 2025

The Tech We Want: Join us to discuss the future of Frictionless Data in a 3-hour online summit

At the summit, we want to promote successful cases and projects using Frictionless, and collectively discuss how such a long-running project adapts to the current context and Open Knowledge’s current vision of technology.

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March 13, 2025

Meet the organisations selected to pilot the Open Data Editor (1st cohort)

ODE in action: A new cohort of pilot organisations will start integrating the application in their work in March on issues as varied as environmental justice, health, peace, and public sector data.

Posted byby OKFN
March 10, 2025

Open Data Day 2025 – Activities & Impact Report

The open data community remains active and resilient in every corner of the planet! In 2025, we saw powerful bottom-up energy across 189 events in 57 countries and more than 15 languages.

Posted byby OKFN
February 28, 2025

Open Knowledge and Guatemala sign cooperation agreement to strengthen data openness

OKFN will coordinate, together with the Presidential Commission, projects and training programmes aimed at improving training and knowledge of public administration and open data, as well as the development of common goods and Digital Public Infrastructures (DPI) from the management of the Government of Guatemala.

Posted byby OKFN
February 28, 2025

Register now for our webinar ‘From data to metadata: enhancing quality across borders’

Join us on 7 March to celebrate Open Data Day and gain insights on data and metadata quality.

Posted byby OKFN
February 26, 2025

And the winners of the Open Data Day 2025 Mini-Grants are…

We are excited to announce the list of organisations that have been awarded mini-grants to help them host Open Data Day (ODD) events and activities across the world.

Posted byby OKFN
February 12, 2025

Open Data Day 2025 – Mini-Grants Open Call

We are excited to announce the launch of the ODD25 Mini-Grants to support organisations hosting open data events and activities. Find out all about the two open calls this year and apply.

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January 29, 2025

[Call for Organisations] Working with data but don’t know coding? The Open Data Editor pilot is for you

We are inviting organisations from any geography and any area of expertise to express interest in participating in a four-month funded pilot to learn how to integrate Open Data Editor into their work.

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’