Opening Remarks: An Open Neurotech Stack
A recap of the BrainCommons opening session on the importance of making brain-computer interfaces open by design
The Future of Freedom of Thought: Keeping Human Agency Open in the Age of Brain-Computer Interfaces
Will we surrender our rights to free thought? – a recap of the Brain Commons keynote by Susie Alegre
Freedom of Thought in the Age of Neurotechnology
How neurotech challenges the very idea of ‘thinking for oneself’ – a recap of the Brain Commons keynote by Christoph Bublitz
Governing the Brain Commons: Openness as Public Infrastructure
A recap of the Brain Commons panel on the governance of neurotech and neural data
Understanding the BCI Stack: Where Openness Matters
A recap of the BrainCommons panel on how openness works in practice at different layers of the tech stack
Making AI work for communities – OKFN Newsletter June 2026
AI and open data, archives and climate, BrainCommons, SkyCommons, MCP, CKAN, and more.
Roundtable Recap: How to digitise a physical archive to work strategically with AI?
This time, we learned from initiatives around the world that have breathed new life into dusty archives using both open and non-open technologies
New Uruguay/OKFN Partnership: Scaling reliable AI for open data across Latin America
Together with AGESIC, we are piloting a traceable AI system with Uruguay’s open data catalogue – so that citizens can receive verifiable answers from national data
We are learning AI by doing – OKFN Newsletter May 2026
AI Learning Labs, neurotech, public data, Open Technology Symposium, and more.
Recap: What We Learned About Climate and AI from Our First Roundtable
The kick-off of AI Learning Labs brought the community together for a wide-ranging discussion lasting over two hours; here are the video recording and highlights