Introducing OKFN’s AI Learning Labs
We are partnering with organisations on high-impact social issues to experiment with AI and develop replicable methods together; you can join us
Open Data Day essay #2: ‘From OPEN to FAIR’
Today, we understand that openness alone is not enough to generate lasting and structural impact. Open without structure is like a library without a catalogue.
Open Data Editor in Action: Building Culturally-Accurate, and Global South Sensitive AI Datasets
The process of standardising data with ODE is a direct contribution to AAOO's goal of creating AI models that are built on respectful, accurately represented, and ethically sourced data from the Global South.
🇷🇼 Open Data Day 2025 in Kigali: Raising Awareness of the Gender Gap in Technology
This text, part of the #ODDStories series, tells a story of Open Data Day‘s grassroots impact directly from the community’s voices. On 7th March 2025, I organized and celebrated a…
Relive The Tech People Want Summit: 2025 Documentation
People want technology for people. Last week, the Open Knowledge Foundation hosted The Tech People Want Summit, bringing together 34 speakers from 19 countries to rethink how technology supports our…
Jaya Klara Brekke: ‘Know who runs your infrastructure’
The infrastructure researcher and CSO at Nym joins us for the seventeenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations with over 100 people about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement
Zoë Kooyman: ‘Today, the free software message is maybe more important than ever’
The executive director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) joined us for the second #OKFN100, a series of conversations with 100+ people about about the current challenges and paths of action of the open movement.
Celebrating the public domain in 2019
2019 is a special year for the public domain, the out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restriction. Normally, each year on the 1st…
Do you use OpenGLAM? Help review shared #OpenGLAM principles for Open Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums
TL;DR: As part of reinvigorating our OpenGLAM (Open Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) community, we’re evaluating the OpenGLAM principles: fill out this survey and get involved. Several months ago, community…