214 Articles

open data

Posted byby Nikesh Balami
December 23, 2024

Making Data Work Easier: Highlights from the Global Voices Summit 2024

How often do you interact with data in your daily tasks? For many of us, working with data has become a regular part of our professional and personal lives. But, do you have the coding skills needed to clean and prepare data for deeper analysis? The Open Data Editor is here to help.

Posted byby Patricio Del Boca
December 19, 2024

Our impressions after a huge Open America event

The event was a great success, with hundreds of people attending, and we dare say there were representatives from every state in the Americas. We have learned some lessons from Open America.

Posted byby OKFN
December 10, 2024

Open Data Editor: learnings from the user testing sessions

Here is a short text explaining how we tested the Open Data Editor before its official stable release and what we learned from the process.

Posted byby OKFN
December 5, 2024

[Announcement] Open Data Editor 1.2.0 stable version release

The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) is happy to announce the release of Open Data Editor (ODE) 1.2.0, now a stable open source desktop application that makes working with data easier for people with little to no technical skills.

Posted byby ACIJ
December 4, 2024

Open Data Editor user testing: feedback from the ACIJ team

As part of releasing the first stable version of the Open Data Editor, we publish the feedback from the team at ACIJ, an Argentine non-profit working to promote a more just and inclusive society, free from poverty and discrimination.

Posted byby StoryData
November 29, 2024

Open Data Editor user testing: feedback from the StoryData team

As part of releasing the first stable version of the Open Data Editor, we publish the feedback from the team at StoryData, a Barcelona-based agency with experts in data research, analysis, visualisation and communication.

Posted byby Julieta Millán
November 25, 2024

Mapping Communities: Open Knowledge in Latin America

A summary of the last Latin America regional call, where we met with regional members of the Open Knowledge Network to share a relaxed and focused talk about our needs, and to present the map of communities we have been working on these last few months.

Posted byby Patricio Del Boca
November 20, 2024

Our impressions after the Digital Public Goods Alliance Annual Members Meeting 2024

The meeting is a space for all members of the Alliance to get together once a year to discuss agendas, updates, next steps and participate in discussions about the future of Digital Public Goods.

Posted byby OKFN
September 11, 2024

Unlocking the Power of Data for Peace: Highlights from the Policy Driver Document for Data Accessibility and User-Friendliness in Peacebuilding

In July 2024, peacebuilders, activists, academics, third sector and staff from intergovernmental organisations such as the United Nations and the OSCE, came together for a policy hackathon at the Austrian Forum for Peace Conference in Burgenland near the Hungarian border.

Posted byby OKFN
August 22, 2024

‘Open knowledge is still seen as very technical in Asia, which excludes a lot of people’

Members of the Open Knowledge Network from the Asia Hub join us for the thirteenth #OKFN100, a series of conversations about the challenges and opportunities facing the open movement.

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’