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100+Conversations

How can openness accelerate and strengthen struggles against the complex challenges of our time? This is the key question behind the 100+ Conversations to Inspire Our New Direction (#OKFN100) project.

Posted byby Lucas Pretti
June 30, 2026

Design choices for a responsible AI chatbot: a conversation with #semanticClimate

Renu Kumari and Udita Agarwal, researchers from #semanticClimate, discuss the technical details behind the Climate Academy Chatbot (CABot), which uses AI responsibly and with safeguards in place

Posted byby OKFN
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 Lucas Pretti
August 26, 2025

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

The senior developer at Open Knowledge, a specialist in CKAN, joins us for the eighteenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement

Posted byby OKFN
July 16, 2025

Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’

The infrastructure researcher and CSO at Nym joins us for the seventeenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations with over 100 people about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement

Posted byby OKFN
July 15, 2025

Frank Karlitschek: ‘No one can buy a product that is owned by the whole community’

The CEO of Nextcloud joins us for the sixteenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement

Posted byby Lucas Pretti
May 20, 2025

Ivana Feldfeber: ‘There is no evidence that more technology makes people better’

DataGénero co-founder joins us for the fifteenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations with over 100 people about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement

Posted byby Lucas Pretti
April 28, 2025

Patricio Del Boca: ‘What we need is concrete tech for the people who need it, and nothing else’

The Open Knowledge Foundation's new Tech Lead joins us for the fourteenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations about the current challenges and the paths of action of the open movement.

Posted byby OKFN
August 22, 2024

‘Open knowledge is still seen as very technical in Asia, which excludes a lot of people’

Members of the Open Knowledge Network from the Asia Hub join us for the thirteenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement.

Posted byby OKFN
August 1, 2024

‘A vicious circle is preventing openness from flourishing in Francophone Africa’

Members of the Open Knowledge Network from the Francophone Africa Hub join us for the twelfth #OKFN100, a series of conversations about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement.

Posted byby OKFN
July 15, 2024

‘There are many data gaps in Latin America and we lack collection methods’

Members of the Open Knowledge Network from the Latin America Hub join us for the eleventh #OKFN100, a series of conversations about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement.

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

Design choices for a responsible AI chatbot: a conversation with #semanticClimate

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’

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’