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Bangladesh

Posted byby Zobaer Rahman
January 13, 2026

🇧🇩 Open Data Day 2025 in Sunamganj: Harnessing Open Data for Flood Preparedness

This text, part of the #ODDStories series, tells a story of Open Data Day‘s grassroots impact directly from the community’s voices. On March 4, 2025, the YouthMappers Chapter at the…

Posted byby MRB Rafi
August 6, 2025

Open Data and ODE in Bangladesh: Students and Researchers Step into a New World of Openness

During our ODE workshop, many participants had an eye-opening moment. At first, some didn’t quite get how open source or open data related to their work. But once we introduced them to tools like the Data Package and its connection with ODE, it all clicked.

Posted byby OKFN
August 22, 2024

‘Open knowledge is still seen as very technical in Asia, which excludes a lot of people’

Members of the Open Knowledge Network from the Asia Hub join us for the thirteenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement.

Posted byby OKFN
August 1, 2024

Bangladesh must immediately stop persecuting experts of the open movement

This week our thoughts are with the Open Knowledge community in Bangladesh, whose members have been deeply affected by internet shutdowns, curfews and arrests.

Posted byby Patricio Del Boca
November 13, 2023

Debriefing the 2nd round table for a Digital Public Infrastructure for Electoral Processes [North America, Europe, Bangladesh]

The main objective of the panel was to listen to and learn about the local perspectives of each participant, in hopes of identifying common ground and possibilities for collaboration. Access the video and summary.

Posted byby Open Data Day
April 4, 2020

Bringing the benefits of open resources to Bangladesh: Open Data Day 2020 report

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open…

Posted byby Christian Villum
March 9, 2015

Open Data Day report #1: Highly inspiring activities across the Asia-Pacific

Following the global Open Data Day 2015 event, which tooks place on February 21 with hundreds of events across the globe, we will do a blog series to highlight some…

Posted byby Chad Smith
October 29, 2013

Findings of the investigation of garment factories of Bangladesh

Connecting the Dots: Mapping the Bangladesh Garment Industry This post was written in collaboration with Matt Fullerton. During the weekend of October 18th-October 20th, a group of volunteers, data-wranglers,…

Bangladesh

🇧🇩 Open Data Day 2025 in Sunamganj: Harnessing Open Data for Flood Preparedness

Open Data and ODE in Bangladesh: Students and Researchers Step into a New World of Openness

‘Open knowledge is still seen as very technical in Asia, which excludes a lot of people’

Bangladesh must immediately stop persecuting experts of the open movement

Debriefing the 2nd round table for a Digital Public Infrastructure for Electoral Processes [North America, Europe, Bangladesh]

Bringing the benefits of open resources to Bangladesh: Open Data Day 2020 report

Open Data Day report #1: Highly inspiring activities across the Asia-Pacific

Findings of the investigation of garment factories of Bangladesh

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

Travis Gerke: ‘Academia is still very supportive of the singular hero scientist. But most things take teams’

Andrés Vázquez: ‘90% of technological problems can be solved with tools that have been around for decades’

Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’

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’