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Posted byby OKFN
January 24, 2025

A 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.

Posted byby Madelon Hulsebos
January 6, 2025

Open 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?

Posted byby Ramya Chandrasekhar
October 23, 2024

Open 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.

Posted byby OKFN
April 20, 2023

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

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.

Posted byby Lucas Pretti
March 28, 2023

#ODD2023 Stories @ Somalia 🇸🇴

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

Posted byby OKFN
March 13, 2023

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

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.

Posted byby Nikesh Balami
March 1, 2023

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

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

Posted byby OKFN
October 21, 2022

Nine recommendations for civil servants to enhance national digital transformations

Many efforts are being obstructed by the lack of IT infrastructure investment, lack of available, accessible datasets and lack of mature data organisation, data management and data governance.

Posted byby Catherine Stihler
March 13, 2020

Open knowledge, AI and algorithms

As the Open Knowledge Foundation turned 15 years old, we took the time to look at the changing landscape of challenges faced by society. The tumultuous debate around algorithms…

Posted byby Katharina Meyer
August 22, 2018

Prototype Fund round 5: Letting machines learn

The Prototype Fund is a public program run by Open Knowledge Foundation Germany that focuses on emerging challenges and radically new solutions. Individuals and small teams can apply for funding…

Open Technology Research Officially Launches to Strengthen Global Research Community

The Road to a Press Freedom AI Commons

Open Knowledge Foundation Priorities for the 2025 OGP

Irina Bolychevsky: ‘CKAN has spread because it makes maintaining data more cost-effective and stimulates the economy through data reuse’

‘Traceability is the answer to AI and open government data’

Design choices for a responsible AI chatbot: a conversation with #semanticClimate

Our Network Contribution to Shape the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy

School of Data Returns: Scaling Digital Literacy Through Trainer Multipliers

Presentation & Expert Roundtable: ‘From Software to Society — Openness in a Changing World’