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digital commons

Posted byby OKFN
April 16, 2025

Open Knowledge joins the OFA Symposium 2025 as content partner to amplify its vision and drive impact

The OpenForum Academy (OFA) is pleased to announce its roster of Content Partners for the upcoming OFA Symposium 2025. This year’s Symposium will benefit from the perspectives and expertise of three leading organisations in this space as Content Partners: the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, and the Digital Public Goods Alliance.

Posted byby Renata Ávila
March 27, 2025

Why I am dedicating time to the CSTD Working Group on Data Governance and the 2025-2026 UN Working Group on Safeguards for Digital Public Infrastructure

Renata Ávila, CEO of OKFN: "I will suggest the 'open by design' principle for datasets and systems becoming the backbone of our future, highly digitised societies. If designed with opacity, without meaningful participation and accountability, these risk entrenching exclusion, corruption and control."

Posted byby Patricio Del Boca
November 20, 2024

Our impressions after the Digital Public Goods Alliance Annual Members Meeting 2024

The meeting is a space for all members of the Alliance to get together once a year to discuss agendas, updates, next steps and participate in discussions about the future of Digital Public Goods.

Posted byby OKFN
November 18, 2024

Report: Open Movement’s Common(s) Causes

This report outlines a shared advocacy strategy for the Knowledge Commons, based on a mapping of opportunities and threats facing the open movement that took place at Common(s) Cause, a Wikimania 2024 side event.

Posted byby OKFN
July 15, 2024

Policy Brief: Governing Digital Public Infrastructure as a Commons

Policy Brief submitted by Open Knowledge Foundation, Center for Internet and Society and Research ICT Africa to T20, Engagement Group of G20 under Task Force T05 - Inclusive digital transformation

Posted byby OKFN
May 1, 2024

Common(s) Cause: Towards a Shared Advocacy Strategy for the Knowledge Commons

Join us for a day-long side event to Wikimania 2024 in Katowice, Poland. Our goal is to design a shared advocacy vision for stronger, collaborative work for the Knowledge Commons.

Posted byby OKFN
November 9, 2023

New Release: Problematising Strategic Tension Lines in the Digital Commons

As a part of our exploration of the open movement, last May, we hosted a workshop with a small group of the movement’s leaders. It was co-organised by our partners…

Posted byby OKFN
October 10, 2023

Open Knowledge Foundation joins the Digital Public Goods Alliance

By uniting resources and expertise, OKFN and DPGA aim to harness the power of digital commons to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Posted byby OKFN
June 15, 2023

CKAN is now a Digital Public Good

The Digital Public Good Alliance approved Open Knowledge’s application and has added it to the Digital Public Good Registry.

Posted byby OKFN
June 5, 2023

Civil Society Statement on democratic digital infrastructure

Together with 40 others, we're calling on the EU to support open-by-design alternatives to commercial digital infrastructures & promote interoperable, transparent spaces that respect privacy, democratic values & net neutrality.

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’