11 Articles

digital public infrastructure

Posted byby OKFN
November 13, 2025

Open letter: Harnessing open source AI to advance digital sovereignty

Dear President Macron,Dear Chancellor Merz,Dear President von der Leyen, Europe is at a crossroads. The Summit on European Digital Sovereignty marks an important milestone for the EU and its member…

Posted byby Renata Ávila
October 30, 2025

We celebrate the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium, a model built for sharing

On behalf of the Open Knowledge Foundation, I welcome today’s announcement by the European Commission on the creation of the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (DC-EDIC). It is a…

Posted byby OKFN
August 28, 2025

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.

Posted byby OKFN
July 15, 2025

Frank Karlitschek: ‘No one can buy a product that is owned by the whole community’

The CEO of Nextcloud joins us for the sixteenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement

Posted byby OKFN
May 5, 2025

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.

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
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 OKFN
July 16, 2024

The European Union must keep funding free software

Open Letter to the European Commission

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 Patricio Del Boca
December 4, 2023

How DPI can help fight Information Pollution during elections

Our workshop in Ethiopia with DPGA members detected misinformation in three stages of the electoral process: voters' registration, campaigns, and election day. Check out the results.

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’