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open software

Posted byby OKFN
October 21, 2026

New Course: How to Build a Responsible AI Chatbot Using Open Technologies

Take a look at the new hands-on course from School of Data, designed for educators and community practitioners. The course focuses on accuracy, source-grounded information and AI with conversational guardrails.

Posted byby OKFN
October 6, 2026

Open Knowledge at Abrelatam/Condatos 2026: AI, Public Data and Regional Collaboration

Join our sessions, receive a copy of the latest OKFN publications, and connect with our team to help develop responsible AI tools for democracy.

Posted byby OKFN
September 16, 2026

New Field Guide: ‘Connecting AI to Government Data’

We at OKFN are exploring how to connect AI to public data in a way that builds trust. This new publication shares our pilot process and invites you to test it in your own context.

Posted byby OKFN
September 15, 2026

Frictionless Community Call August 2026

At the last community call, maintainers, contributors and new community members discussed an update for Data Package version 2 migration and looked ahead to upcoming community outputs.

Posted byby OKFN
March 17, 2026

‘The Future of Open Data’: Video Documentation

Relive the online conference that brought the open data community together for a celebration of two decades of CKAN and to discuss the role of open data and data infrastructures today.

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
November 26, 2025

[VIDEO] Meet Open Knowledge’s Digital Public Goods

OKFN is the proud creator and one of the maintainers of two officially recognised digital public goods (DPGs): CKAN and Open Data Editor (ODE).

Posted byby OKFN
October 22, 2025

Open Data Editor Recognised as a Digital Public Good

This recognition affirms ODE’s contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and confirms that it meets the highest standards of openness, accessibility, and public benefit.

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 Lucas Pretti
August 26, 2025

Andrés Vázquez: ‘90% of technological problems can be solved with tools that have been around for decades’

The senior developer at Open Knowledge, a specialist in CKAN, joins us for the eighteenth #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

Irina Bolychevsky: ‘CKAN has spread because it makes maintaining data more cost-effective and stimulates the economy through data reuse’

‘Traceability is the answer to AI and open government data’

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

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’