Open Knowledge as an essential design principle for a fair, sustainable and open future
A word from our leadership as 2023 starts.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Measuring a crisis: Why data is crucial to ensure the right to education
The Open Knowledge Foundation has had a long-standing working relationship with the Right to Education Index, a global monitoring and accountability initiative aimed at ensuring that everybody can enjoy their…
Announcing the winner of the Net Zero Challenge 2021
Three months ago, the team at Open Knowledge Foundation launched a new project – the Net Zero Challenge – a global competition to identify, promote and support innovative, practical and scalable uses of open data that advance…
Watch the Net Zero Challenge pitch contest
This week, five shortlisted teams took part in the final stage of the Net Zero Challenge – a global competition to identify, promote and support innovative, practical and scalable uses of open data that advance climate action.…
Meet our panel of experts for the Net Zero Challenge pitch contest
The Net Zero Challenge is a global competition to answer the following question – how can you advance climate action using open data? Our aim is to identify, promote, support…