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Posted byby Gibran Mena
July 30, 2025

ODE Training in Germany and Argentina: A Hands-on Experience with Data Journalism

The sessions were designed to equip participants with essential skills needed in today's data-driven journalism landscape and incorporating the Open Data Editor (ODE) in the data pipeline for journalists.

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 Open Data Day
May 17, 2020

A climate data sprint in Germany focused on renewable energy: Open Data Day 2020 report

On Saturday 7th March 2020, the tenth Open Data Day took place with people around the world organising over 300 events to celebrate, promote and spread the use of open…

Posted byby Walter Palmetshofer
November 29, 2018

OpenSchufa: The first results

This blog has been reposted from the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany blog In early 2018 the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany (OKFDE) and Algorithm-Watch launched the project OpenSCHUFA, which works on reverse-engineering the…

Posted byby Katharina Meyer
August 22, 2018

Prototype Fund round 5: Letting machines learn

The Prototype Fund is a public program run by Open Knowledge Foundation Germany that focuses on emerging challenges and radically new solutions. Individuals and small teams can apply for funding…

Posted byby Jan Daniel Wiedersporn
April 18, 2018

Our Open Data Day 2018 @ hack.institute

This blog has been reposted from Medium This blog is part of the event report series on International Open Data Day 2018. On Saturday 3 March, groups from around the world…

Posted byby Walter Palmetshofer
February 22, 2018

We crack the Schufa, the German credit scoring

Last week the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany (OKFDE) and AlgorithmWatch launched the project OpenSCHUFA. Inspired by OKF Finland and the „mydata“ project, OpenSCHUFA is the first„mydata“ project by OKFDE. Over…

Posted byby Adriana Groh
December 19, 2017

How to innovate? Prototype everything!

We recognized a problem. There are so many individuals and small teams with good ideas out there, but there is little to no financial support. We wanted to change that.…

Posted byby Nika Aleksejeva
August 18, 2016

Call for a week-long data journalism training in Berlin

Photo from a data visualization training in Istanbul, 2014. Author: Nika Aleksejeva ‘Data-driven journalism against prejudices about migration’ training course for young media-makers, human rights activists and developers Berlin, 12…

Posted byby Daniel Dietrich
April 12, 2010

Open government data in Germany: what next?

Following is a guest post from Daniel Dietrich, Chairman of the Open Data Network, Official Representative of the Open Knowledge Foundation in Germany and Researcher at the centre for Computers…

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ODE Training in Germany and Argentina: A Hands-on Experience with Data Journalism

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

A climate data sprint in Germany focused on renewable energy: Open Data Day 2020 report

OpenSchufa: The first results

Prototype Fund round 5: Letting machines learn

Our Open Data Day 2018 @ hack.institute

We crack the Schufa, the German credit scoring

How to innovate? Prototype everything!

Call for a week-long data journalism training in Berlin

Open government data in Germany: what next?

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’