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open education

Posted byby OKFN
March 25, 2025

Announcing our new course: Quality and Consistent Data with the Open Data Editor

Part of our goal in developing the Open Data Editor (ODE) this year is to increase digital literacy among key communities. We’re thrilled to introduce our latest learning resource: a free, hands-on course designed to help non-technical users improve their data skills.

Posted byby Assong Tonye
May 9, 2024

#ODDStories 2024 @ Yaoundé, Cameroon 🇨🇲

Check out GeOsm Family’s report on their event held with the help of an Open Data Day mini-grant.

Posted byby Lucas Pretti
March 28, 2023

#ODD2023 Stories @ Somalia 🇸🇴

Check out the university partnership of Open Knowledge Somalia in Mogadishu to promote the use and accessibility of open data.

Posted byby Javiera Atenas
July 2, 2018

Changing Minds by Using Open Data

This blog has been rewritten from the original post on our Open Education Working Group blog and is co-authored by Javiera Atenas, Erdinç Saçan & Robert Schuwer. The Greek…

Posted byby Javiera Atenas
January 25, 2018

OpenEdu Policies reports: JRC Research Centre

This blog has been reposted from the Open Education Working Group blog and has been written as a joint effort by Javiera Atenas and Paul Bacsich, co-coordinators of the Open Education…

Posted byby Javiera Atenas
January 17, 2018

Educators ask for a better copyright

This blog has been reposted from the Open Education Working Group page. Today we, the Open Education Working Group, publish a joint letter initiated by Communia Association for the Public…

Posted byby Muriel Poisson
October 19, 2017

Leveraging the fight for stronger openness in education

This blog has been jointly written by Muriel Poisson (IIEP-UNESCO) and Javiera Atenas (Open Education Working Group): their full bio’s can be found below this post. Education and corruption: these…

Posted byby Javiera Atenas
August 22, 2017

The Open Education Working Group: What do we do and what is coming up next

The Open Education Working Group (https://education.okfn.org) is a very active community of educators, researchers, PhD students, policy makers and advocates that promote, support and collaborate with projects related with the…

Posted byby Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland
April 12, 2017

Launch: Jedeschule.de promotes transparency within the educational system in Germany

This blog was written by Moritz Neujeffski, School of Data Germany team. School of Data Germany, a project by Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland, helps non-profit organisations, civil rights defenders and activists…

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