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[VIDEO] Meet Open Knowledge’s Digital Public Goods
OKFN is the proud creator and one of the maintainers of two officially recognised digital public goods (DPGs): CKAN and Open Data Editor (ODE).
Our New Field Guide: ‘The Tech We Want | Read This Before You Build’
We at OKFN are questioning our own practices and learning how to do things anew. This new publication compiles some of these processes and invites you to put your community first.
Relive The Tech People Want Summit: 2025 Documentation
People want technology for people. Last week, the Open Knowledge Foundation hosted The Tech People Want Summit, bringing together 34 speakers from 19 countries to rethink how technology supports our…
Join us at The Tech People Want Summit and reimagine tech for real-world needs
In July, OKFN is bringing together non-technical professionals – including data practitioners, communicators, project managers, and advocates – to rethink how technology supports our work in conversational sessions.
Frictionless Summit: Review the recording and learn about the next steps for Frictionless Data
Following The Tech We Want vision, the community agreed to follow up on the two macro-topics: one for software simplification and core functionalities, and one for outreach and adoption.
The Tech We Want: Join us to discuss the future of Frictionless Data in a 3-hour online summit
At the summit, we want to promote successful cases and projects using Frictionless, and collectively discuss how such a long-running project adapts to the current context and Open Knowledge’s current vision of technology.
The Tech We Want: Reflecting on the Super Election Year 2024
See the summary of the event that brought together leading voices from around the world to reflect on the Super Election Year 2024, during which 3.7 billion people voted in 72 countries. This online event was part of the The Tech We Want initiative.
Event: Join us to discuss the role of tech in the so many elections of 2024
On 14 January 2025, we are hosting an engaging online event to explore in depth how technology shaped the global electoral process in the super election year of 2024, and to discuss the future we can build together.
Towards a knowledge society through the technologies we want
CEO Reflection Ahead of 2025 – We will continue to fight for a knowledge society rather than a surveillance society, one that benefits the many rather than the few and is built on the principles of collaboration rather than control, empowerment rather than exploitation, and sharing rather than monopoly.
Panel: We are Making the Tech We Want
With the skills that the panellists have, it would be easier to work for the mainstream tech industry and just go with the flow. But they've all chosen a different path: making software that makes sense. In this conversation, we'll share the trajectories of some open, free/libre, and alternative technologies, and discuss how to tip the scales in our favour amidst a solutionist discourse in an ultra-specialised industry.