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Why I am dedicating time to the CSTD Working Group on Data Governance and the 2025-2026 UN Working Group on Safeguards for Digital Public Infrastructure
Renata Ávila, CEO of OKFN: “I will suggest the ‘open by design’ principle for datasets and systems becoming the backbone of our future, highly digitised societies. If designed with opacity, without meaningful participation and accountability, these risk entrenching exclusion, corruption and control.”
Read moreAnnouncing our new course: Quality and Consistent Data with the Open Data Editor
Part of our goal in developing the Open Data Editor (ODE) this year is to increase digital literacy among key communities. We’re thrilled to introduce our latest learning resource: a free, hands-on course designed to help non-technical users improve their data skills.
Read moreOpen Data Editor AI integration: breaking the input-output logic
This post discusses our approach to integrating AI into the Open Data Editor. To ensure thoughtful AI integration, we are emphasising the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, user feedback, and ethical considerations rather than just technical implementation.
Read more🇹🇭 Open Data Day 2025 in Bangkok: Turning Data into Solutions for Floods, Smog, and Wildfires
#ODDStories – For Open Data Day 2025, Thailand is spotlighting disasters as a key theme. They believe that better data and effective data use are key to tackling these challenges.
Read moreThe 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.
Read more🇳🇬 Open Data Day 2025 in Owerri: Equipping Journalists to Address Climate and Agricultural Issues
#ODDStories – In a groundbreaking event held in Owerri, Imo State, journalists from various media organizations gathered for the Open Data Day 2025 workshop, aimed at equipping them with the necessary skills to utilize open data in climate and agricultural reporting.
Read moreMeet the organisations selected to pilot the Open Data Editor
ODE in action: A new cohort of pilot organisations will start integrating the application in their work in March on issues as varied as environmental justice, health, peace, and public sector data.
Read moreOpen Data Day 2025 – Activities & Impact Report
The open data community remains active and resilient in every corner of the planet! In 2025, we saw powerful bottom-up energy across 189 events in 57 countries and more than 15 languages.
Read moreOpen Knowledge and Guatemala sign cooperation agreement to strengthen data openness
OKFN will coordinate, together with the Presidential Commission, projects and training programmes aimed at improving training and knowledge of public administration and open data, as well as the development of common goods and Digital Public Infrastructures (DPI) from the management of the Government of Guatemala.
Read moreRegister now for our webinar ‘From data to metadata: enhancing quality across borders’
Join us on 7 March to celebrate Open Data Day and gain insights on data and metadata quality.
Read moreAnd the winners of the Open Data Day 2025 Mini-Grants are…
We are excited to announce the list of organisations that have been awarded mini-grants to help them host Open Data Day (ODD) events and activities across the world.
Read moreOpen Data Day 2025 – Mini-Grants Open Call
We are excited to announce the launch of the ODD25 Mini-Grants to support organisations hosting open data events and activities. Find out all about the two open calls this year and apply.
Read moreCHAOSScon 2025: Key Takeaways on Open Source Health and Metrics
CHAOSScon 2025 reinforced the importance of defining, measuring, and sustaining OSS health. As open source continues to evolve, these discussions provide a roadmap for ensuring sustainability, security, and inclusivity.
Read moreOpen Source Policy and Europe’s Digital Sovereignty: Key Takeaways from the EU Open Source Policy Summit
With the EU entering a new legislative cycle, the discussions focused on how open source can enhance digital sovereignty, competitiveness, and innovation.
Read more[Call for Organisations] Working with data but don’t know coding? The Open Data Editor pilot is for you
We are inviting organisations from any geography and any area of expertise to express interest in participating in a four-month funded pilot to learn how to integrate Open Data Editor into their work.
Read moreA new round of strategic funding to enhance data literacy and accessibility through the Open Data Editor
We are pleased to announce that the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) has been selected as a grantee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation for the second year in a row to continue working on improving the Open Data Editor (ODE) application, making it more accessible and widely used by organisations around the world, and increasing data literacy in key communities.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreProject Respira: Open Innovation for Environmental Justice in Asunción
Led by a member of the Open Knowledge Network in Paraguay, this project is an example of how free technology, open data and collaboration can provide innovative solutions to critical problems related to climate change and environmental justice.
Read more‘Leveraging Open Data for the Benefit of Society’, a workshop with Open Knowledge Greece
Τhe event featured panels and discussions on using public and open data to create digital tools that address contemporary challenges for the benefit of citizens.
Read moreEvent: 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.
Read moreOpen Data Editor: How and why we are integrating AI into the app
How can AI help non-technical users validate and improve the quality of their data in the Open Data Editor, taking into account transparency, privacy, and functionality?
Read moreTransforming Nepal’s Data Ecosystem: 2024 in Review
As the year comes to a close, Open Knowledge Nepal reflects on their major initiatives and achievements that paved the way for a more transparent and innovative data ecosystem.
Read moreMaking 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.
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