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Making Data Work Easier: Highlights from the Global Voices Summit 2024
How often do you interact with data in your daily tasks? For many of us, working with data has become a regular part of our professional and personal lives. But, do you have the coding skills needed to clean and prepare data for deeper analysis? The Open Data Editor is here to help.
Read moreLooking back on 2024 and looking ahead to 2025 with the Open Knowledge Network
This year has been a journey of innovation, resilience, and collaboration, demonstrating the power of openness in fostering global change. We cannot imagine doing any of this without collaborating with the Network of course. The power of collaboration is a cornerstone of our vision, and we stand by our motto: better together than alone.
Read moreTowards 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.
Read moreOur 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.
Read moreOpen Data Editor: learnings from the user testing sessions
Here is a short text explaining how we tested the Open Data Editor before its official stable release and what we learned from the process.
Read morePrototype Fund: a successful story of project replication within the Open Knowledge Network
Prototype Fund offers funding with a lightweight structure for public interest tech, allowing individuals and small teams who do not have professional grant-writing skills to easily access public funding.
Read more[Announcement] Open Data Editor 1.2.0 stable version release
The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) is happy to announce the release of Open Data Editor (ODE) 1.2.0, now a stable open source desktop application that makes working with data easier for people with little to no technical skills.
Read moreOpen Data Editor user testing: feedback from the ACIJ team
As part of releasing the first stable version of the Open Data Editor, we publish the feedback from the team at ACIJ, an Argentine non-profit working to promote a more just and inclusive society, free from poverty and discrimination.
Read moreOpen Data Editor user testing: feedback from the StoryData team
As part of releasing the first stable version of the Open Data Editor, we publish the feedback from the team at StoryData, a Barcelona-based agency with experts in data research, analysis, visualisation and communication.
Read moreOpen Knowledge Anglophone Africa Meeting: Promoting openness, collaboration and capacity building on the continent
The recent Open Knowledge Anglophone Africa meeting was an important opportunity to assess the current state of the open movement, explore collaboration strategies, and chart the course for future projects and initiatives.
Read moreMapping Communities: Open Knowledge in Latin America
A summary of the last Latin America regional call, where we met with regional members of the Open Knowledge Network to share a relaxed and focused talk about our needs, and to present the map of communities we have been working on these last few months.
Read morePanel: 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.
Read moreOur 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.
Read moreReport: 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.
Read morePanel: The Tech We Want is Sustainable for People and the Planet
Eco, green, or simply sustainable technologies have several implicit meanings: long life, affordable maintenance, skilled people, resource-friendly, economical to use, renewable, regenerative, etc. In this panel, thinkers, practitioners and promoters of different aspects of software sustainability will discuss if and how it is possible to achieve a development model for people and the planet. Is there a way out of the disaster versus greenwashing narratives?
Read morePanel: The Tech We Want is Built and Maintained with Care
Digital technologies need people to care for them and keep them alive. In a time of obsession for innovation and disruption, in this panel we will shine a light on the invisible but essential work of maintenance.
Read moreOpen Knowledge Achieves US Charitable Organisations Equivalency Status
We’re thrilled to announce that the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) has achieved NGOsource Equivalency Determination (ED) certification, formally establishing our recognition as equivalent to a US public charity. This status represents a major milestone for OKFN and opens new avenues for partnerships and support from US-based donors and foundations.
Read moreMapping Openness in Europe: A Regional Meeting with Open Knowledge Foundation
The Europe regional call aimed to understand whether it would be helpful to map the connections between existing OFKN network and chapter members.
Read morePanel: The Tech We Want is Political
Since the Snowden revelations, citizen efforts have been focused in patching a broken system of surveillance, extractivism of people and the planet and rights erosion. This conversation will discuss the current state of the things and the viability of uniting technical and political efforts to move in a different direction.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreOpen Data Commons in the age of AI and Big Data
AI is bringing forth new types of capture, appropriation and enclosure of data that limits the realisation of its collective societal value.
Read moreMapping 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.
Read moreOpen Data Editor: Our Open Source Dependency Just Disappeared
The sudden disappearance of this core dependency only reinforces the idea that we should aim to build simpler, less dependent technologies.
Read moreThe Tech We Want Summit: Review the recordings of what was a great community moment in 2024
The event brought together our beloved community of technologists, practitioners and creators for two days to show that a different technology stack is possible.
Read moreThe Tech We Want Summit: Full Programme Announcement
The Tech We Want Summit is just around the corner. Today we are announcing the full programme for day one, Thursday 17 October, featuring 28 speakers from all around the world across 5 panels and 2 keynotes.
Read moreThe Open Data Editor is now ready for the pilot phase
This week saw the release of version 1.1.0 of the Open Data Editor (ODE), the new Open Knowledge Foundation’s app that makes it easier for people with little to no technical skills to work with data. The app is now ready to enter a crucial phase of user testing.
Read moreAre you a developer? Help us test the Open Data Editor!
The Open Knowledge Foundation is looking for four developers with Python and React JS skills to test the Open Data Editor (ODE) desktop application between October and November and help us improve its functionality.
Read moreThreats, hopes and tales from the Open Knowledge Network gathering in Katowice, Poland
Our annual gathering is a special occasion, an opportunity for us to come together, share our knowledge, listen attentively, and forge meaningful connections.
Read moreUnlocking 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.
Read moreJoin us at The Tech We Want Summit and take a critical stand on today’s technologies
Today we are happy to announce The Tech We Want, a series of initiatives that we’ve been working on for a long time at the Open Knowledge Foundation and that has been guiding us in the way we develop software. In recent years, technology has adopted a complex, wasteful, and expensive approach to serving its […]
Read more‘Open knowledge is still seen as very technical in Asia, which excludes a lot of people’
Members of the Open Knowledge Network from the Asia Hub join us for the thirteenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement.
Read moreCKAN 2.11: Hypermedia approach for the tech we want
The new version integrates HTMX to CKAN and opens up the way for creating dynamic user interfaces.
Read more‘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.
Read moreBangladesh 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.
Read moreFollow 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.
Read more‘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.
Read morePolicy Brief: Governing Digital Public Infrastructure as a Commons
Policy Brief submitted by Open Knowledge Foundation, Center for Internet and Society and Research ICT Africa to T20, Engagement Group of G20 under Task Force T05 – Inclusive digital transformation
Read moreYou are invited to OPEN GOES COP’s 2nd Webinar
We’re advocating for openness in the UN Climate Change Conferences. If you’re working at the intersection of openness and climate change, please come!
Read moreHow can ‘openness’ complement climate change?
Debriefing and reflecting after the inaugural OPEN GOES COP coalition webinar
Read moreData Package version 2.0 is out!
Thanks to the generous support of NLnet, now Data Package includes features that were often requested throughout the years and improves extensibility for domain-specific implementations.
Read more#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.
Read moreOpen Data Editor: The tormented journey of an app
Project Manager Sara Petti gives a behind-the-scenes account of the development of ODE at csv,conf,v8 – a journey full of lessons learned.
Read more#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.
Read more#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.
Read more‘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.
Read more#ODDStories 2024 @ Zaria, Nigeria 🇳🇬
Check out Digital Grassroot’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.
Read more#ODDStories 2024 @ Goma, DRCongo 🇨🇩
Check out DRM Africa’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.
Read more#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.
Read more#ODDStories 2024 @ Ningi, Nigeria 🇳🇬
Check out Mumsa Initiative’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.
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