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Posted byby OKFN
April 16, 2025

Open Knowledge joins the OFA Symposium 2025 as content partner to amplify its vision and drive impact

The OpenForum Academy (OFA) is pleased to announce its roster of Content Partners for the upcoming OFA Symposium 2025. This year’s Symposium will benefit from the perspectives and expertise of three leading organisations in this space as Content Partners: the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, and the Digital Public Goods Alliance.

Posted byby Renata Ávila
March 27, 2025

Why I am dedicating time to the CSTD Working Group on Data Governance and the 2025-2026 UN Working Group on Safeguards for Digital Public Infrastructure

Renata Ávila, CEO of OKFN: "I will suggest the 'open by design' principle for datasets and systems becoming the backbone of our future, highly digitised societies. If designed with opacity, without meaningful participation and accountability, these risk entrenching exclusion, corruption and control."

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 Sara Petti
February 11, 2025

CHAOSScon 2025: Key Takeaways on Open Source Health and Metrics

CHAOSScon 2025 reinforced the importance of defining, measuring, and sustaining OSS health. As open source continues to evolve, these discussions provide a roadmap for ensuring sustainability, security, and inclusivity.

Posted byby Sara Petti
February 11, 2025

Open Source Policy and Europe’s Digital Sovereignty: Key Takeaways from the EU Open Source Policy Summit

With the EU entering a new legislative cycle, the discussions focused on how open source can enhance digital sovereignty, competitiveness, and innovation.

Posted byby Patricio Del Boca
December 19, 2024

Our impressions after a huge Open America event

The event was a great success, with hundreds of people attending, and we dare say there were representatives from every state in the Americas. We have learned some lessons from Open America.

Posted byby Patricio Del Boca
November 20, 2024

Our impressions after the Digital Public Goods Alliance Annual Members Meeting 2024

The meeting is a space for all members of the Alliance to get together once a year to discuss agendas, updates, next steps and participate in discussions about the future of Digital Public Goods.

Posted byby OKFN
November 18, 2024

Report: Open Movement’s Common(s) Causes

This report outlines a shared advocacy strategy for the Knowledge Commons, based on a mapping of opportunities and threats facing the open movement that took place at Common(s) Cause, a Wikimania 2024 side event.

Posted byby OKFN
September 11, 2024

Unlocking the Power of Data for Peace: Highlights from the Policy Driver Document for Data Accessibility and User-Friendliness in Peacebuilding

In July 2024, peacebuilders, activists, academics, third sector and staff from intergovernmental organisations such as the United Nations and the OSCE, came together for a policy hackathon at the Austrian Forum for Peace Conference in Burgenland near the Hungarian border.