14 Articles

open development

Posted byby Lucas Pretti
June 30, 2026

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

Renu Kumari and Udita Agarwal, researchers from #semanticClimate, discuss the technical details behind the Climate Academy Chatbot (CABot), which uses AI responsibly and with safeguards in place

Posted byby OKFN
June 16, 2026

[Webinar] Traceable AI for Public Data: An Open Model for Latin America

Join OKFN and the UN Big Data Regional Hub to learn about our ongoing experiments integrating AI to public open data portals

Posted byby Kannika Thaimai
June 10, 2026

MCP for Open Data Portals: Trust Depends on Understanding the Data

Early lessons from OKFN’s Brazil and Uruguay pilots on what it takes to make AI-generated answers traceable, useful, and trustworthy

Posted byby OKFN
June 3, 2026

New Uruguay/OKFN Partnership: Scaling reliable AI for open data across Latin America

Together with AGESIC, we are piloting a traceable AI system with Uruguay’s open data catalogue – so that citizens can receive verifiable answers from national data

Posted byby OKFN
May 4, 2026

Brazil and OKFN partner to enable citizens to ‘talk’ to national data

Together, we are developing a tool that will bring public data closer to citizens, allowing them to get data by simply asking a question.

Posted byby Patricio Del Boca
April 7, 2026

An Honest Reflection on the Integration of LLMs into Open Data Portals

‘We don’t trust AI,’ claims OKFN's Tech Lead in this text, in which he offers his sharp views on one of today's most pressing challenges

Posted byby OKFN
December 8, 2025

New Field Guide: ‘The Tech We Want | Who Decides? A Quick Guide to Governance’

We at OKFN are questioning our own practices and learning how to do things anew. This new publication compiles some of these processes and invites you to put your community first.

Posted byby OKFN
September 23, 2025

Our New Field Guide: ‘The Tech We Want | Read This Before You Build’

We at OKFN are questioning our own practices and learning how to do things anew. This new publication compiles some of these processes and invites you to put your community first.

Posted byby Madelon Hulsebos
January 6, 2025

Open Data Editor: How and why we are integrating AI into the app

How can AI help non-technical users validate and improve the quality of their data in the Open Data Editor, taking into account transparency, privacy, and functionality?

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.

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’