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Beatriz Busaniche: ‘Hate speech is sustained by stereotypes, which are often driven by AI’

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Beatriz Busaniche: ‘Hate speech is sustained by stereotypes, which are often driven by AI’

April 20, 2023

The director of Fundación Vía Libre joined us for the fifth #OKFN100, a series of conversations with more than 100 people about the current challenges and the paths of action of the open movement.

Open Data Day

Posted byby Lucas Pretti

#ODD2023 Stories @ Mexico 🇲🇽

March 30, 2023

Check out how an alliance in Mexico is expanding the use of open data for socio-environmental conflict transformation

Our Work

Debriefing the Open Definition workshop at MozFest

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Debriefing the Open Definition workshop at MozFest

March 30, 2023

One week ago at MozFest, we began the process of rethinking and updating the Open Definition for today’s challenges and contexts. Here are the main takeaways.

Open Data Day

Posted byby Lucas Pretti

#ODD2023 Stories @ Somalia 🇸🇴

March 28, 2023

Check out the university partnership of Open Knowledge Somalia in Mogadishu to promote the use and accessibility of open data.

Our Work

Posted byby Renata Ávila

Updating the Open Definition to meet the challenges of today

March 16, 2023

OKFN is kicking off the process of rethinking what “open” and “openness” mean beyond licences, for our complex digital infrastructures of today and tomorrow. Join us with your vision to shape a common digital future

The Tech We Want

Posted byby Patricio Del Boca

How far are we from an Election Data standard?

March 13, 2023

Last Friday we had a nice and spontaneous talk about election data that we saw as a great collaboration opportunity.

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David Eaves: ‘The open data battle now is to demonstrate value, and that’s hard to do’

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David Eaves: ‘The open data battle now is to demonstrate value, and that’s hard to do’

March 13, 2023

The initiator of Open Data Day joined us for the fourth #OKFN100, a series of conversations with 100+ people about about the current challenges and paths of action of the open movement.

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Thais Ruiz de Alda: ‘Social media platforms promote gender violence. Full stop.’

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Thais Ruiz de Alda: ‘Social media platforms promote gender violence. Full stop.’

March 8, 2023

The executive director of DigitalFems joined us for the third #OKFN100, a series of conversations with 100+ people about about the current challenges and paths of action of the open movement.

Open Data Day

Posted byby Nikesh Balami

And the winners of the Open Data Day(s) 2023 small grants programme are. . .

March 1, 2023

In total, we received 71 small grant applications this year from 30 countries and were greatly impressed by the quality of the event proposals.

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Zoë Kooyman: ‘Today, the free software message is maybe more important than ever’

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Zoë Kooyman: ‘Today, the free software message is maybe more important than ever’

February 27, 2023

The executive director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) joined us for the second #OKFN100, a series of conversations with 100+ people about about the current challenges and paths of action of the open movement.