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open government

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
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.

Posted byby OKFN
August 1, 2024

‘A vicious circle is preventing openness from flourishing in Francophone Africa’

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

Posted byby OKFN
July 15, 2024

‘There are many data gaps in Latin America and we lack collection methods’

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

Posted byby OKFN
June 18, 2024

‘Digital literacy, not just access, is Africa’s biggest problem’

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

Posted byby Carol Matos
December 11, 2023

The South at the world’s centre: OKFN dive into Uruguay’s data marathon

At the beginning of November, I visited Uruguay in the capacity of Open Knowledge Foundation’s Partnerships Lead to take part in #MaratónDeDatos, a pool of various events focused on the…

Posted byby Sara Petti
September 15, 2023

The Tech We Want to Open Governments

On September 4th, Open Knowledge Foundation, together with Open Knowledge Estonia and Open Knowledge Finland, held a parallel event to the Global Open Government Partnership Summit in Tallinn to talk about the tech we want (and need) to open governments.

Posted byby Patricio Del Boca
September 12, 2023

OGP remarks: lots of open government, not so much FOIA, congruency missing

Check out the observations of our developer and long-life open activist Patricio Del Boca after attending the OGP for the first time: "We should start practicing what we preach"

Posted byby OKFN
August 21, 2023

Stefania Maurizi: ‘Secrets are the currency of power’

One of the most important investigative journalists working as a media partner of WikiLeaks joined us for the seventh #OKFN100, a series of conversations about the current challenges and the paths of action of the open movement

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.

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’