The Tech We DON’T Want: Bring your scary tech story to our Halloween

Next Thursday, October 31st, 11:00 CEST, come celebrate Halloween – or Buggyween – at this open meeting with the Open Knowledge Foundation team.

Mapping Civil Society Organisations on Open Data in Francophone Africa: A Regional Meeting with Open Knowledge Foundation

This virtual meeting brought together various stakeholders in the field of open data in French-speaking Africa, with the main aim of mapping the civil society organisations active in this field.

‘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.

Bangladesh must immediately stop persecuting experts of the open movement

This week our thoughts are with the Open Knowledge community in Bangladesh, whose members have been deeply affected by internet shutdowns, curfews and arrests.

Follow us in Poland or online at Wikimania, the biggest gathering of the open community in 2024

It’s time to get together and unite. See the details of each session and come and say hello – in person or virtually.

‘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.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Yilo Krobo, Ghana 🇬🇭

Check out Women for Sustainability Africa’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Sokoto, Nigeria 🇳🇬

Check out Resource Connects for Education Initiative’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪

Check out Code For Africa’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

‘Digital literacy, not just access, is Africa’s biggest problem’

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

#ODDStories 2024 @ Zaria, Nigeria 🇳🇬

Check out Digital Grassroot’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Goma, DRCongo 🇨🇩

Check out DRM Africa’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮

Check out YouthMappersUAO’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Ningi, Nigeria 🇳🇬

Check out Mumsa Initiative’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Goma, DRC Congo 🇨🇩

Check out MSD Network’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Cuddalore, India 🇮🇳

Check out SWEAD’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Salvador, Brazil 🇧🇷

Check out YouthMappers UFBA’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Yaoundé, Cameroon 🇨🇲

Check out GeOsm Family’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Oguta, Nigeria 🇳🇬

Check out InspireIT’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴

Check out OpenStreetMap Colombia and YouthMappers Sagema’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Gurgaon, India 🇮🇳

Check out Management Development Institute’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Kathmandu, Nepal 🇳🇵

Check Open Tech Community Nepal’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

Open Knowledge Network: Introducing the Regional Hubs Prototype Programme

We’re thrilled to unveil today the latest addition to our Network, a programme to foster collaboration and expand our reach and impact across the globe.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Kigali City, Rwanda 🇷🇼

Check out EcoMappers’ report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Guatemala City 🇬🇹

Check out Diálogos’ report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Kibaale, Uganda 🇺🇬

Check out Rural Aid Foundation’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Detroit, USA 🇺🇸

Check out DETROITography’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Bandung, Indonesia 🇮🇩

Check out the UPI Youthmappers’ report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Caracas, Venezuela 🇻🇪

Check out Utopix’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Marsabit, Kenya 🇰🇪

Check out the Pastoralist Peoples’ Initiative’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Milan, Italy 🇮🇹

Check out the Geodetic and Photogrammetric Laboratory’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Quezon City, Philippines 🇵🇭

Check out the UP Resilience Institute YouthMappers’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Belém, Brazil 🇧🇷

Check out the Meninas da Geo’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

#ODDStories 2024 @ Kwara, Nigeria 🇳🇬

Check out the Learnovation Foundation Network’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

Open Data Day 2024 – Mini-Grants Open Call

We are excited to announce the launch of the Open Data Day 2024 Mini-Grants Application to support organisations hosting open data events and activities across the world.

End of the year with the Open Knowledge Network

Before we get to 2024, check out the heart-warming updates from around the world by the members of the Open Knowledge Network.

The South at the world’s centre: OKFN dive into Uruguay’s data marathon

At the beginning of November, I visited Uruguay in the capacity of Open Knowledge Foundation’s Partnerships Lead to take part in #MaratónDeDatos, a pool of various events focused on the work with data, open data and open knowledge, and a meeting point for the global community engaged with the topic. I first arrived in Montevideo […]

Csv,conf is going to Mexico!

The most beloved community conference for datamakers from all around the world is back in May 2024! After a very successful seventh edition in Buenos Aires in April 2023, we have decided to linger a little longer in Latin America. We are very excited to announce that csv,conf,v8 will take place in Mexico! The commallama […]

csv,conf,v6 is going ahead on May 4-5 2021

Save the date for csv,conf,v6! The 6th version of csv,conf will be held online on May 4-5 2021. If you are passionate about data and its application to society, this is the conference for you. Submissions for session proposals for 25-minute talk slots, and a new ‘Birds of a Feather’ track, for which we invite […]

Tell us how you think we can better support Open Data Day

This year has been such an eventful year for all of us. As 2020 nears its end, here at Open Knowledge Foundation we are starting to think about Open Data Day 2021. I checked my calendar this morning – and it’s only 4 months away ! Open Data Day is such a great opportunity for […]

DataStories Symposium

At the DataStories Symposium 2020 we will explore how people engage with data to create stories. Data is represented in different ways to allow us to understand and make use of it: in numbers, in text, in visualisations, in interactive stories and other forms. Data stories are relevant to many areas of our life – […]

2017: A Year to Remember for OK Nepal

This blog has been cross-posted from the OK Nepal blog as part of our blog series of Open Knowledge Network updates. Best wishes for 2018 from OK Nepal to all of the Open Knowledge family and friends!! The year 2017 was one of the best years for Open Knowledge Nepal. We started our journey by […]

An update from Open Burkina

Energy is fundamental to any development. The National Electricity Company of Burkina Faso (SONABEL) whose task is the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity in the Burkinabè population, works hard to enable citizens to benefit from this as an important resource. However, it is clear that SONABEL hardly fulfills this mission: hardly a day goes by […]

Fostering open, inclusive, and respectful participation

At Open Knowledge International we have been involved with various projects with other civil society organisations aiming for the release of public interest data, so that anyone can use it for any purpose. More importantly, we focus on putting this data to use, to help it fulfil its potential of working towards fairer and more […]

Why MyData 2017?

This is a guest post explaining the focus of the MyData conference in Tallinn and Helsinki later this month. By a famous writing tip, you should always start texts with ‘why?’. Here we are taking that tip, and we actually find many ways to answer the big Why. So, Why MyData 2017? Did you get […]

New Open Knowledge Network chapter in Nepal

We are happy to announce that this month a new Chapter at the Open Knowledge Network is being launched officially: welcome Open Knowledge Nepal in this new stage! Since February 2013, Open Knowledge Nepal has been involved in research, advocacy, training, organizing meetups and hackathons, and developing tools related to Open Data, Open Government Data, […]

Data Tables at csv,conf,v3

You may have heard that csv,conf,v3 is happening again this year, May 2nd and 3rd, in Portland, Oregon! We have a really great line-up of speakers from across the world on a set of topics ranging from the democratization of data analysis and election mapping to the very timely subject of emoji data science (?). […]

OK Belgium welcomes Dries van Ransbeeck as new project coordinator… and other updates from quarter 4

This blog post is part of our on-going Network series featuring updates from chapters across the Open Knowledge Network and was written by the Open Knowledge Belgium team. A lot of things has happened over the past few months at Open Knowledge Belgium. First, we welcomed Dries Van Ransbeeck as the new project coordinator. His […]

OK Sweden’s first ever EU Project (CLARITY), Open Knowledge Awards – and other quarter 4 updates

This blog post is part of our on-going Network series featuring updates from chapters across the Open Knowledge Network and was written by the Open Knowledge Sweden team. 2016 was a productive year for Open Knowledge Sweden! We are a team that is passionate about open knowledge, transparency, democracy and value creation. This post […]

Season Greetings from OK Ireland and 2016 in review

This blog post is part of our on-going Community series featuring updates from chapters across the Open Knowledge Network and was written by the team of Open Knowledge Ireland and edited by Flora Fleischer and Siobhan Denham. Our warm season greetings to all friends of Open Knowledge As we approach the final days of this year, we would […]

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