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Posted byby OKFN
November 6, 2024

Panel: The Tech We Want is Built and Maintained with Care

Digital technologies need people to care for them and keep them alive. In a time of obsession for innovation and disruption, in this panel we will shine a light on the invisible but essential work of maintenance.

Posted byby OKFN
October 28, 2024

Panel: The Tech We Want is Political

Since the Snowden revelations, citizen efforts have been focused in patching a broken system of surveillance, extractivism of people and the planet and rights erosion. This conversation will discuss the current state of the things and the viability of uniting technical and political efforts to move in a different direction.

Posted byby Sara Petti
September 26, 2024

Threats, hopes and tales from the Open Knowledge Network gathering in Katowice, Poland

Our annual gathering is a special occasion, an opportunity for us to come together, share our knowledge, listen attentively, and forge meaningful connections.

Posted byby OKFN
August 27, 2024

Join us at The Tech We Want Summit and take a critical stand on today’s technologies

Today we are happy to announce The Tech We Want, a series of initiatives that we’ve been working on for a long time at the Open Knowledge Foundation and that…

Posted byby OKFN
July 31, 2024

Follow us in Poland or online at Wikimania, the biggest gathering of the open community in 2024

It's time to get together and unite. See the details of each session and come and say hello – in person or virtually.

Posted byby Sara Petti
June 25, 2024

Open Data Editor: The tormented journey of an app

Project Manager Sara Petti gives a behind-the-scenes account of the development of ODE at csv,conf,v8 – a journey full of lessons learned.

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 Carol Matos
December 11, 2023

The South at the world’s centre: OKFN dive into Uruguay’s data marathon

At the beginning of November, I visited Uruguay in the capacity of Open Knowledge Foundation’s Partnerships Lead to take part in #MaratónDeDatos, a pool of various events focused on the…

Posted byby Carol Matos
August 2, 2023

Calling South Asian communities involved with open knowledge

We at OKFN are preparing another round of consultations on updating the “Open Definition”, now at Wikimania Singapore.

Posted byby Lucas Pretti
June 26, 2023

Debriefing the Open Definition workshop at RightsCon

Three weeks ago at RightsCon Costa Rica, we continued the process of rethinking and updating the Open Definition for today’s challenges and contexts. Here are the main takeaways.

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’