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Europe

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 Sara Petti
February 11, 2025

Open Source Policy and Europe’s Digital Sovereignty: Key Takeaways from the EU Open Source Policy Summit

With the EU entering a new legislative cycle, the discussions focused on how open source can enhance digital sovereignty, competitiveness, and innovation.

Posted byby OKFN
January 6, 2025

‘Leveraging Open Data for the Benefit of Society’, a workshop with Open Knowledge Greece

Τhe event featured panels and discussions on using public and open data to create digital tools that address contemporary challenges for the benefit of citizens.

Posted byby Sara Petti
December 5, 2024

Prototype Fund: a successful story of project replication within the Open Knowledge Network

Prototype Fund offers funding with a lightweight structure for public interest tech, allowing individuals and small teams who do not have professional grant-writing skills to easily access public funding.

Posted byby Esther Plomp
October 30, 2024

Mapping Openness in Europe: A Regional Meeting with Open Knowledge Foundation

The Europe regional call aimed to understand whether it would be helpful to map the connections between existing OFKN network and chapter members.

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.

Posted byby Mor Rubinstein
May 2, 2016

And what are your plans for Transparency Camp Europe?

This post was written by our friends at Open State Foundation in the Netherlands. Let’s face it. When it comes to relevant open data and transparency in European decision-making, we…

Posted byby Christian Villum
March 13, 2015

Open Data Day report #2: All of Europe pushing open data

In our follow-up series about Open Data Day 2015, which tooks place on February 21 across the world, we will now highlight some of the great events that took place…

Posted byby Marco Menchinella
March 5, 2014

Data Roundup, 5 March

Tools, Events, Courses Not all the data you are looking for are already formatted and uploaded on the Internet. Sometimes you have to extract them from multiple websites, and then…

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’