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data literacy

Posted byby OKFN
June 11, 2025

Celebrating the Launch of the ‘Quality and Consistent Data with Open Data Editor’ Course – Join Our Webinar!

OKFN is hosting a special online webinar where we’ll showcase the course, demonstrate ODE’s key features, and discuss its impact with expert speakers.

Posted byby OKFN
June 5, 2025

School of Data Returns: Scaling Digital Literacy Through Trainer Multipliers

In May, we brought the community together again for a special training session to enable trainers to deliver the ‘Quality and Consistent Data with Open Data Editor’ course locally.

Posted byby OKFN
May 30, 2025

Openness Bazaar: Open Data and Co-creation in Mexico City

The event, co-organised by INFO CDMX and OKFN, is a unique opportunity to explore tools, publications and materials developed under the model of openness by design, with a focus on human rights, gender perspective and inclusion of vulnerable groups.

Posted byby OKFN
May 19, 2025

Open Data Editor in Action: Empowering local government staff across municipalities in Nepal

Open Knowledge Nepal was able to cut error-resolution time from weeks to hours and audit 40+ datasets across 5 municipalities, enabling public servants to validate data independently.

Posted byby Lorena López Lozada
April 23, 2025

🇲🇽 Open Data Day 2025 in Xalapa: The Role of Open Data in Policy, Climate, and Social Change

#ODDStories – An event at Universidad Veracruzana brought together teachers and researchers from different fields to discuss open data and new technologies to face the polycrisis.

Posted byby OKFN
April 21, 2025

[Announcement] Open Data Editor 1.4.0 version release

The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) is happy to announce the release of Open Data Editor (ODE) 1.4.0, the latest version of our new desktop application for data practitioners to detect errors in tables.

Posted byby OKFN
January 29, 2025

[Call for Organisations] Working with data but don’t know coding? The Open Data Editor pilot is for you

We are inviting organisations from any geography and any area of expertise to express interest in participating in a four-month funded pilot to learn how to integrate Open Data Editor into their work.

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 Romina Colman
April 11, 2024

Open Data Editor: what we learned from user research

Join us on this learning journey and follow the details of the app's development in this series of blogs.

Posted byby OKFN
September 10, 2019

Women in data can help tackle gender inequality

Encouraging more women and girls to learn data skills can help tackle gender inequality and build a more diverse society, a conference will hear today. Speaking at the annual ‘Doing…

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’