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Open Data Day 2025

Posted byby Janeth Mwakisole
June 12, 2025

🇹🇿 Open Data Day 2025 in Morogoro: Strengthening Communities Through Mapping

#ODDStories – The SMCoSE Geochallenge 2025: Map Roulette Edition brought together students, researchers, local communities, and mapping enthusiasts to celebrate Open Data Day.

Posted byby Lorena López Lozada
April 23, 2025

🇲🇽 Open Data Day 2025 in Xalapa: The Role of Open Data in Policy, Climate, and Social Change

#ODDStories – An event at Universidad Veracruzana brought together teachers and researchers from different fields to discuss open data and new technologies to face the polycrisis.

Posted byby Julia Quaicoe
April 9, 2025

🇬🇭 Open Data Day 2025 in Komenda: How Participatory Mapping Shapes Coastal Safety

#ODDStories – In celebration of Open Data Day 2025, UCC Youth Mappers promoted a hands-on experience to emphasise the importance of community involvement in mapping projects.

Posted byby Bella Riskyta Arinda
April 1, 2025

🇮🇩 Open Data Day 2025 in Pari Island: Collaborating for Climate Justice through Coral Watch

#ODDStories – In celebration of Open Data Day 2025, Yapeka joined the local community in investigating the impacts of reclamation on coral reefs using publicly accessible remote sensing data.

Posted byby Thanisara GG Ruangdej
March 21, 2025

🇹🇭 Open Data Day 2025 in Bangkok: Turning Data into Solutions for Floods, Smog, and Wildfires

#ODDStories – For Open Data Day 2025, Thailand is spotlighting disasters as a key theme. They believe that better data and effective data use are key to tackling these challenges.

Posted byby Harriet C. Ijeomah
March 18, 2025

🇳🇬 Open Data Day 2025 in Owerri: Equipping Journalists to Address Climate and Agricultural Issues

#ODDStories – In a groundbreaking event held in Owerri, Imo State, journalists from various media organizations gathered for the Open Data Day 2025 workshop, aimed at equipping them with the necessary skills to utilize open data in climate and agricultural reporting.

Posted byby OKFN
March 10, 2025

Open Data Day 2025 – Activities & Impact Report

The open data community remains active and resilient in every corner of the planet! In 2025, we saw powerful bottom-up energy across 189 events in 57 countries and more than 15 languages.

Posted byby OKFN
February 28, 2025

Register now for our webinar ‘From data to metadata: enhancing quality across borders’

Join us on 7 March to celebrate Open Data Day and gain insights on data and metadata quality.

Posted byby OKFN
February 26, 2025

And the winners of the Open Data Day 2025 Mini-Grants are…

We are excited to announce the list of organisations that have been awarded mini-grants to help them host Open Data Day (ODD) events and activities across the world.

Posted byby OKFN
February 12, 2025

Open Data Day 2025 – Mini-Grants Open Call

We are excited to announce the launch of the ODD25 Mini-Grants to support organisations hosting open data events and activities. Find out all about the two open calls this year and apply.

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

Design choices for a responsible AI chatbot: a conversation with #semanticClimate

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’

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’