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Brazil

Posted byby Anicely Santos
August 18, 2025

From Chaos to Order: A Workshop with ODE to Uncomplicate Data in Brazil

The three-hour online session focused on teaching the fundamentals of data usage and quality to professionals from various fields with different levels of familiarity with open data.

Posted byby Juliana S. Lima
July 29, 2025

Open Data Editor Training in Brazil: Empowering Transparency and Innovation

The in-person training at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) aimed to ensure adherence to the Brazilian Access to Information Law, promoting both active and passive transparency.

Posted byby Patricio Del Boca
December 19, 2024

Our 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.

Posted byby Patricia Lustosa Brito
May 14, 2024

#ODDStories 2024 @ Salvador, Brazil 🇧🇷

Check out YouthMappers UFBA’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

Posted byby Open Data Day
June 1, 2020

Mapping to support the fight against COVID-19 in Brazil: 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 Open Data Day
April 1, 2020

Connecting environmental politics and data in Brazil: 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 Open Data Day
April 2, 2019

Open Mapping in Brazil for Open Data Day 2019

This report is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2019. Code for Curitiba and Open Knowledge Brasil / UG Wikimedia in Brazil received funding through…

Posted byby Open Knowledge Brazil
February 26, 2019

How was 2018 for Open Knowledge Brasil?

This blog has been translated from its original version on the OK Brasil blog. The complete 2018 Annual Report of OK Brasil is available here. The year 2018 was of…

Posted byby Open Knowledge Brazil
January 16, 2018

A lookback on 2017 with OK Brazil

This blog has been written by Natalia Mazotte and Ariel Kogan, co-directors of Open Knowledge Brazil (OKBR). It has been translated from the original version at https://br.okfn.org/2017/12/29/como-foi-o-ano-de-2017-para-a-okbr by Juliana Watanabe, volunteer of OKBR.…

Posted byby Open Knowledge Brazil
July 19, 2017

Brazil’s Information Access Law and the problem of ‘un-anonymous’ request for public information

It is critical to build mechanisms that allow and promote the exercise of right to information access in a way that is safe to Information Access Law users. In this…

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’