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open government data

Posted byby Patricio Del Boca
October 16, 2025

‘When AI Meets Open Data’: Reflections for Open Government Communities

AI and open data are a natural and powerful combination that promises to dramatically improve how citizens access public information, but the community is still working to make this a reliable reality.

Posted byby OKFN
July 2, 2025

Open Data Editor in Action: Democratising housing data analysis in Argentina

The Civil Association for Equality and Justice (ACIJ) managed to guarantee the quality of decades of housing survey data and consolidate the results even with changes in the collection methodology.

Posted byby OKFN
August 3, 2023

Data-driven Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Recap of the CKAN Workshop at Code4Dev

Watch the workshop recording and learn the basics about an open data portal implementation using CKAN. This training was offered by Open Knowledge in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank.

Posted byby OKFN
August 1, 2023

#OpenGovRetrospective – Get inspired by projects from our global Network

Latest update: August 21, 2023 The Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit 2023 is fast approaching. As we prepare to run an official side event, Open Knowledge Foundation has been…

Posted byby OKFN
July 5, 2023

#OpenGovRetrospective – What we’ve done inspires what comes next

Join us in looking back on open government past projects and in re-igniting the conversations in such a challenging time for democracies.

Posted byby OKFN
October 21, 2022

Nine recommendations for civil servants to enhance national digital transformations

Many efforts are being obstructed by the lack of IT infrastructure investment, lack of available, accessible datasets and lack of mature data organisation, data management and data governance.

Posted byby Danny Lämmerhirt
January 16, 2019

What data counts in Europe? Towards a public debate on Europe’s high value data and the PSI Directive

This blogpost was co-authored by Danny Lämmerhirt, Pierre Chrzanowski and Sander van der Waal (*author note at the bottom) January 22 will mark a crucial moment for the future of open data…

Posted byby Oscar Montiel
November 27, 2018

Paris Peace Forum Hackathon: A new chance to talk about open data

A few weeks ago we had the chance to attend the first edition of the Paris Peace Forum. The goal of this new initiative is to exchange and discuss concrete…

Posted byby Johnny West
September 18, 2018

The next target user group for the open data movement is governments

Here’s an open data story that might sound a bit counterintuitive. Last month a multinational company was negotiating with an African government to buy an asset. The company, which already…

Posted byby Ton Zijlstra
June 5, 2018

New proposal for the re-use of government held data by the EC

TL;DR The European Commission proposed a new PSI Directive, that describes when and how publicly held data can be re-used by anyone (aka open government data). The proposal contains several…

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Presentation & Expert Roundtable: ‘From Software to Society — Openness in a Changing World’