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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.
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