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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.
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.
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