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Posted byby Patricio Del Boca
September 12, 2023

OGP remarks: lots of open government, not so much FOIA, congruency missing

Check out the observations of our developer and long-life open activist Patricio Del Boca after attending the OGP for the first time: "We should start practicing what we preach"

Posted byby OKFN
July 5, 2023

#OpenGovRetrospective – What we’ve done inspires what comes next

Join us in looking back on open government past projects and in re-igniting the conversations in such a challenging time for democracies.

Posted byby OKFN
June 5, 2023

Civil Society Statement on democratic digital infrastructure

Together with 40 others, we're calling on the EU to support open-by-design alternatives to commercial digital infrastructures & promote interoperable, transparent spaces that respect privacy, democratic values & net neutrality.

Posted byby Andrés Vázquez
May 10, 2023

Legislative transparency: How the Parliament of Córdoba became the most transparent in Latin America

The Open Knowledge Foundation team closely followed this process and shares the experience in this short text.

Posted byby Lucas Pretti
January 16, 2023

Open Knowledge as an essential design principle for a fair, sustainable and open future

A word from our leadership as 2023 starts.

Posted byby OKFN
October 21, 2022

Nine recommendations for civil servants to enhance national digital transformations

Many efforts are being obstructed by the lack of IT infrastructure investment, lack of available, accessible datasets and lack of mature data organisation, data management and data governance.

Posted byby OKFN
March 3, 2022

An urgent call for peace and solidarity

At the Open Knowledge Foundation, we urge to ramp up all the diplomatic and political efforts for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and that ceasefire to extend to all the…

Posted byby OKFN
January 10, 2022

Frictionless Planet – Save the Date

We believe that an ecosystem of organisations combining tools, techniques and strategies to transform datasets relevant to the climate crisis into applied knowledge and actionable campaigns can get us closer…

Posted byby Meg Foulkes
July 28, 2021

Applications for the CoAct Open Calls on Gender Equality (July 1st, 2021- September 30th, 2021) are open!

CoAct is launching a call for proposals, inviting civil society initiatives to apply for our cascading grants with max. 20.000 Euro to conduct Citizen Social Science research on the topic…

Posted byby James Hamilton
July 12, 2021

Calling all legal practitioners – you are invited to an interactive workshop on immigration and automation

– Are you a lawyer, campaigner or activist working in the UK immigration system? – Do you want to learn how automated decision systems are currently used in the immigration…

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

Irina Bolychevsky: ‘CKAN has spread because it makes maintaining data more cost-effective and stimulates the economy through data reuse’

‘Traceability is the answer to AI and open government data’

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

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’