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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 4h

🗳️❌ "We are seeing datasets disappear depending on who is in power. Whole open data portals are going offline after certain elections, both at the national and local levels. This disturbing trend threatens the democracy we have today." – @avilarenata.bsky.social #OGPSummit

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 4h

✊🏾 "The most fundamental pillar of #opengovernment is software made by activists. If you have ever used official #opendata from Brazil, Canada, USA, UK, India, etc., you have used CKAN." – @avilarenata.bsky.social #OGPSummit

⛵️ #CKAN is a DPG recognised by the Digital Public Good Alliance

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 4h

☁️😵 We at @okfn.bsky.social are not afraid to talk about the elephant in the room: there can be no truly public digital infrastructure as long as the ‘cloud’ belongs to corporations.

📸 @avilarenata.bsky.social
at #OGPSummit

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 8h

"When AI meets open data", by @redpuntoes, with Alicia Gª de Blas de la Serna @mintradigital.bsky.social, Patricio del Boca @okfn.bsky.social, Renato Berrino Malaccorto @opendatacharter.org, Francisco Javier García-Vieira red.es, Josema Alonso semic.eu

Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 8h

Survey with session attendees 👇🏽

Agree?

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 8h

"It is neither intelligence nor artificial" 🗯️ #OGPSummit session today trying to pierce the hype.

Public interest #AI indeed can help improve data quality and create knowledge from #opendata (reading, interpreting, referencing it), but critical literacies are needed!

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 1d

🤩 If you see any of these faces at #OGPSummit in Spain, come talk to us about openness, digital public infrastructure, data governance, the #LocalStack, tech sovereignty, #TheTechWeWant, and any other topics at the intersections of #openknowledge.

👋 #OpenKnowledgeNetwork

Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 2d

🏛️🗯️ Democracy happens — and is lost — locally. That's why discussing an open, people-centred, sovereign #LocalStack is so urgent!

We kicked off our participation in #OGPSummit today facilitating this discussion with local government representatives.

@DPGAlliance
#TheTechWeWant

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 2d

More info: www.ogp.euskadi.eus/noticia/2025...

Tarde de OGP Local: conectar, aprender y liderar

www.ogp.euskadi.eus

Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 2d

👋 Starting in 30! If you're attending #OGPSummit #OGPLocal afternoon in Vitoria-Gasteiz, come discuss with @okfn.bsky.social #DPGA in thematic session 𝗧𝗵𝗲 #𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘁𝘆: 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝗣𝗜

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 6d

✍️✨ Thank you very much Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas for your thoughtful report on how #OpenDataEditor is helping journalists tell better stories with data!

#TheTechWeWant
#DataJournalism

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Free tool helps journalists clean data faster and with fewer errors

Free tool helps journalists clean data faster and with fewer errors Technology and AI. Latin American Journalism Review by The Knight Center at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 7d

🌱 Our focus for the #OGP2025 Global Summit is clear: putting communities, knowledge, data and AI to work for the public good. OKFN team members will be promoted and present at key sessions.

👉🏾 Learn more about our participation: buff.ly/rnm7vqF

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 8d

✨ Tomorrow: #TheTechWeWant | Read This Before You Build ✨

Are you on public interest tech? This is a chance to take part in an open conversation about learning and unlearning ways of building with communities.

🗓️ 30 Sep
🕒 15:00 CEST
📍 Online
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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 13d

🚩 Are you getting ready to build public interest tech?

Join us to celebrate the launch of our new field guide, "#TheTechWeWant | Read This Before You Build"

🗓️ 30 September 2025
🕒 15:00 CEST
📍 Online

👇🏾 Details & Registration:

Register for The Tech We Want | Read This Before You Build - Open Knowledge Blog

Are you getting ready to build public interest tech? Join us to celebrate the launch of the Open Knowledge Foundation's field guide, 'The Tech We Want | Read This Before You Build.' This is an…

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 14d

You can read the guide here: buff.ly/4jJfe1A

📢 Please help spread the word and share this with your networks!

💙 We are thankful for the support of The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

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

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.

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 14d

The guide is practical and actionable, including:

🙋🏾‍♀️ 8 questions every team should ask
🤗 Practical tips on building with communities
🤖 Honest reflections on #AI
✍️ A hands-on self-assessment exercise

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 14d

The guide comes from two decades of practice and from the lessons of building the #OpenDataEditor (ODE). By stepping back and listening, we gradually reshaped it into something more accessible and useful — and this story became central to the guide.

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 14d

✨ Announcing Our New Field Guide: #TheTechWeWant | Read This Before You Build ✨

👉🏾 Access it here: buff.ly/4jJfe1A

It is not a manual with all the answers, but rather a field guide on how to build public interest tech 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 communities.

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 15d

Take this opportunity to reread 'The Road to a Press Freedom AI Commons' by @avilarenata.bsky.social and Scott Griffen. The text explores a joint project to open the #IPI archive and makes a call for reflection on #AI infrastructures for the public good.

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The Road to a Press Freedom AI Commons - Open Knowledge Blog

Opening the International Press Institute (IPI) archive is not just for preservation, but the first step toward creating a digital press freedom commons for the public good.

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 15d

🇬🇷 This week, we are travelling to Athens for #iMEdDIJF25, where we will seek collective answers to the question, 'How can journalists and archivists work together?'

🎙️ This panel builds on our recent collaboration with the International Press Institute (IPI) @globalfreemedia.bsky.social

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 21d

🙇🏽‍♀️ Today, we held the 3rd organised community gathering around #OpenDataEditor to discuss how to build #AI literacy as a collective strategy. Distinguished guest: Marek Tuszynski (Tactical Tech).

🎥 Recording: buff.ly/TktI1MY

Stay tuned for Open Session #4 in a month!

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 22d

🇧🇯 #OpenDataEditor: Training for Trainers

Check out the highlights of Saliou Abdou's sessions to strengthen #opendata culture in Benin. They are now envisaging an Open Data 'club' to foster sharing, collaboration, and co-creation.

👉🏾 blog.okfn.org/2025/09/02/t...

#SchoolOfData

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 26d

🟡 And also with a session by Software Developer @avdata99.bsky.social on the future of #CKAN, the data management system maintained by OKFN which powers most of the #opendata portals worldwide.

More: buff.ly/9AvPCHL

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 26d

🔵 In 2025, OKFN contributed content with a keynote by Project Manager @sarapetti.bsky.social focusing on the #OpenDataEditor (ODE): our simple, low-tech application designed to detect errors in tables and improve #dataliteracy in non-technical communities.

More: buff.ly/dfdSaSD
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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 26d

🦙 The @csvconf.bsky.social is getting bigger and better every year. This time there was lots of interest, conversations and exchanges in a magnificent venue in Bologna, Italy. 🧵

#CSVCONF #CommaLlama

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