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elections

Posted byby Sara Petti
January 22, 2025

The Tech We Want: Reflecting on the Super Election Year 2024

See the summary of the event that brought together leading voices from around the world to reflect on the Super Election Year 2024, during which 3.7 billion people voted in 72 countries. This online event was part of the The Tech We Want initiative.

Posted byby OKFN
January 6, 2025

Event: Join us to discuss the role of tech in the so many elections of 2024

On 14 January 2025, we are hosting an engaging online event to explore in depth how technology shaped the global electoral process in the super election year of 2024, and to discuss the future we can build together.

Posted byby OKFN
March 25, 2024

Angela Oduor Lungati: ‘When embracing open source, one must be intentional about being inclusive’

The Executive Director of Ushahidi joins us for the ninth #OKFN100, a series of conversations about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement.

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.

Posted byby Patricio Del Boca
November 3, 2023

How a Public Digital Infrastructure for Electoral Processes is Helping Argentina Combat Disinformation

The National Electoral Directorate of Argentina has taken a significant step, and we are pleased to see, once again, how access to open knowledge helps different governments strengthen their democratic processes.

Posted byby OKFN
April 20, 2023

Beatriz Busaniche: ‘Hate speech is sustained by stereotypes, which are often driven by AI’

The director of Fundación Vía Libre joined us for the fifth #OKFN100, a series of conversations with more than 100 people about the current challenges and the paths of action of the open movement.

Posted byby Patricio Del Boca
March 13, 2023

How far are we from an Election Data standard?

Last Friday we had a nice and spontaneous talk about election data that we saw as a great collaboration opportunity.

Posted byby Guest
April 17, 2015

Fantasy Frontbench – giving the public a way to compare politicians

This is a guest blog post by Matt Smith, who is a learning technologist at UCL. He is interested in how technology can be used to empower communities. Introduction Fantasy…

elections

The Tech We Want: Reflecting on the Super Election Year 2024

Event: Join us to discuss the role of tech in the so many elections of 2024

Angela Oduor Lungati: ‘When embracing open source, one must be intentional about being inclusive’

How DPI can help fight Information Pollution during elections

How a Public Digital Infrastructure for Electoral Processes is Helping Argentina Combat Disinformation

Beatriz Busaniche: ‘Hate speech is sustained by stereotypes, which are often driven by AI’

How far are we from an Election Data standard?

Fantasy Frontbench – giving the public a way to compare politicians

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’