MCP for Open Data Portals: Trust Depends on Understanding the Data
Early lessons from OKFN’s Brazil and Uruguay pilots on what it takes to make AI-generated answers traceable, useful, and trustworthy
New Uruguay/OKFN Partnership: Scaling reliable AI for open data across Latin America
Together with AGESIC, we are piloting a traceable AI system with Uruguay’s open data catalogue – so that citizens can receive verifiable answers from national data
Brazil and OKFN partner to enable citizens to ‘talk’ to national data
Together, we are developing a tool that will bring public data closer to citizens, allowing them to get data by simply asking a question.
Join Open Knowledge at RightsCon 2026, Zambia
Our team and network will discuss pressing issues such as reimagining AI, experiencing brain-computer interfaces, leveraging digital public goods, and more; check the full agenda
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[VIDEO] Meet Open Knowledge’s Digital Public Goods
OKFN is the proud creator and one of the maintainers of two officially recognised digital public goods (DPGs): CKAN and Open Data Editor (ODE).
Open Data Editor Recognised as a Digital Public Good
This recognition affirms ODE’s contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and confirms that it meets the highest standards of openness, accessibility, and public benefit.
Open Knowledge Foundation Priorities for the 2025 OGP
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit is a key gathering for government representatives, civil society leaders, and open government advocates from around the world. It serves as a crucial…
Decoding the UN CSTD Working Group on Data Governance online series
Join us in this online event to unpack two key documents approved last May: the terms of reference and work plan of the WG. Speakers will present an overview of the goals of the working tracks, and share the expectations they hold for the next WG meeting.
Decoding the UN CSTD Working Group on Data Governance online series
Join us in this online event to have an overview of the Multi-Stakeholder Working Group on Data Governance at all levels' mandate, discuss the main outcomes of its first meeting, and learn about the expected next steps.
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."