🗞️ Our End-of-Year Newsletter is out today – including @okfn.bsky.social's Annual Report 2025, new partnerships and announcements, many project updates, and the latest news of the #OpenMovement around the world. 👉🏾 Check it out: buff.ly/BD8NmcF

AI belongs to the people it serves. @okfn.bsky.social proves this daily in partnership with @pjmfdn.bsky.social. Together, we will build 4 hands-on pilots and multilingual AI literacy curricula, while advancing trustworthy AI in the global open data ecosystem. Learn more → buff.ly/FPsAagm

⭐️ Opportunity alert: part-time Project Manager role at @okfn.bsky.social ⭐️ The successful candidate will support the development for an #opendata infrastructure portal being prepared for the challenges of AI. Could this be you? Know anyone? Please share! 👉🏾 okfn.org/en/jobs/proj...

🚀 Today, we are excited to announce a new strategic partnership with #datHere to strengthen open, FAIR and AI-ready data infrastructure powered by #CKAN. Towards more open-source solutions to tackle the most pressing issues of our time! Learn more 👇🏾 buff.ly/mj5LJ4N

🔖 Have you read our latest field guide? '#TheTechWeWant | Read This Before You Build' is particularly useful if you are developing, or intend to develop, technology for the public interest. 👉🏾 buff.ly/YD1dfZB

😵 We've all been there: opening a spreadsheet only to find a mess of missing values, weird formats, and inconsistent entries. 🤩 There is a better way. → Meet the #OpenDataEditor 💻⤓ okfn.org/opendataedit... #TheTechWeWant

📰 #OpenDataEditor in Action: ODE helped @datacritica.bsky.social to quickly identify reliable variables for their data journalism investigations in Mexico and ensure their stories are built on solid foundation. 👉🏾 Check the use case: buff.ly/psyHnmo

Today, we are showcasing the full potential of #CKAN at the #DPGProductFair, during the Digital Public Goods Alliance Annual Members' Meeting in #Brasília 🇧🇷 📸 @hsvab.bsky.social (@ok.org.br), @avilarenata.bsky.social and Otavio Neves (CGU/Government of Brazil)

✨Today, we are announcing the launch of the Open Technology Research Network (OTRN), developed in partnership with @opensource.org and @openforumeurope.org. Find out more about what we will be doing in 2026: blog.okfn.org/2025/11/20/o...

📣 We are thrilled to join @opensource.org - @openforumeurope.org in the Open Technology Research Network (OTRN). 2026 will be an exciting year bringing back the spirit of our early festivals and finding the answers to embrace the power of open technologies. buff.ly/ACyuuQe

Today, OpenForum Europe (OFE), the Open Source Initiative (OSI), and the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) announced a new strategic partnership: the Open Technology Research Network (OTRN). Read the full announcement here: openforumeurope.org/openforum-eu...

At @okfn.bsky.social we congratulate Wayne Wei Wang! Dedicated to Basil Cousins' legacy, the award is meant to encourage future generations committed to rigorous thought and research in the field of open innovation and open technology. #OFASymposium

We're having a lot of fun here in Brazil! Here's some of our many attendees who turned out in Rio de Janeiro to talk about open technology impact at the #OFASymposium2025. Now we're moving into our fourth and final track: Sustainability & Security! #OpenSource #OpenTechnology #Research #Symposium

We are kicking off Day 2 of the OFA Symposium 2025 with a keynote by Fernanda Campagnucci on Openness at a Crossroads! Stay tuned for updates on today's two tracks: Economic Impact of Open and Sustainability and Security. #OpenSource #OpenTechnology #Research #Symposium

The presenters from our first track -- Open Technologies and Geopolitics -- are tackling the big questions around #OpenTechnologies that influence #geopolitical strategies, #trade policies, and #technological #sovereignty.

Building on the policy brief presented by @okfn.bsky.social and @cis-cnrs.bsky.social to the #G20, researcher Ramya Chandresekhar explores how to govern DPI as a commons. #OFASymposium in #Rio @openforumeurope.org

We are coming to you live from Rio de Janeiro, the site of the 2025 edition of the #OFASymposium2025. We have a full day ahead of us, with two full tracks of exciting presentations and keynotes. Thank you to @fgvoficial.bsky.social for hosting us! #OpenSource #OpenTechnology #Research #Symposium

📣 We urge EU leaders to adopt a 5-point plan to make open source AI the force multiplier for a resilient, autonomous Europe. Closed systems = dependency. Open systems = capacity. Read our plan now: buff.ly/4acTKNV

The OFA Symposium 2025 is happening next week, and we’re thrilled to showcase more details about our final conference track! To conclude Day 2 of the Symposium, we will explore Track 4: Sustainability and Security, from 13:30 to 16:20. Explore the full agenda here: symposium.openforumeurope.org

PARI's Local Government Programme Lead Jugal Mahabir has been collaborating with @okfn.bsky.social on Open Data blog.okfn.org/2025/11/10/o...

💬 "Academia is still very supportive of the singular hero scientist. But most things take teams" 🔬 Biostatistician and epidemiologist Travis Gerke is the 19th conversation of the #OKFN100 project. 👉🏾 Check it out: buff.ly/nlOhiMK #openscience #openknowledge

If you hate Excel formulas and don't really know what ‘metadata’ means, #OpenDataEditor is for you! A handy tool for 👩🏾‍💻 journalists, 📣 activists, 👨🏼‍✈️ civil servants, and anyone who isn't an engineer. Download ODE and start learning now: buff.ly/iyqaNY2

🌟 #OpenDataEditor in Action: ODE helped @aiofourown.bsky.social to standardise data and create #AI models that are built on respectful, culturally-accurate and ethically sourced data from the Cambodian and South African communities. 👉🏾 Check the use case: buff.ly/KHSiBiv

🌟 🙌🏾 Actualización emocionante: #OpenDataEditor ha sido reconocido como un #bienpúblicodigital por la Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA). Esto significa que la adopción global ha contribuido a los ODS de la ONU y que ODE cumple con los más altos estándares de #apertura. 👉🏾 Más: buff.ly/yBfykiJ

🌟 🙌🏾 Exciting update: #OpenDataEditor has been recognised as a #digitalpublicgood by Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA). This means that the global adoption of the app has been contributing to the UN SDGs, and that ODE meets the highest standards of #openness. 👉🏾 More: buff.ly/ScQJ3wj

🌱 What governance models will best serve #OpenDataEditor and the public good over time? Join the community next week to help shape the future of the tool. 🗓️ 22 Oct 🕒 16:00 CEST 📍 Online Register: buff.ly/iY3Ayii

Public interest tech should be built to last. Our partners at @okfn.bsky.social created The Tech We Want, a field guide that shows how simplicity, openness, and community-driven design lead to digital systems that can endure the test of time. Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/4rvjuvuf

🗳️❌ "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

✊🏾 "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

☁️😵 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

"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! 🧵

🤩 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

🏛️🗯️ 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

👋 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

✍️✨ 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 buff.ly/sTFEU0m

🌱 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

✨ 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 🔗 buff.ly/qvhHpa0

🚩 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:

✨ 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. 🧵

🇬🇷 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

🙇🏽‍♀️ 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!

🇧🇯 #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

🦙 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

Have you booked your trip to Brazil? Join the OpenForum Academy Symposium 2025 in Rio, Nov 18–19, for two-days of inspiring keynotes & expert speakers. Limited spots available – register now: symposium.openforumeurope.org#register

📢 Call for Abstracts: Participatory AI Development, Governance and Power at PAIRS26, taking place alongside the India AI Impact Summit in Feb 26! 🚀 www.pairs.site/PAIRS-2026-2... Open for papers, presentations or poster abstracts for online or in-person (Delhi) sessions. Deadline: 31st October.

✨ A must-read for anyone working at the current legal frontiers of #data, #AI, and the #commons, by @melanieddr.bsky.social & Yaniv Benhamou 🔖 buff.ly/OKNam51 Part of the #SustainableDataCommons project, a collaboration between @cis-cnrs.bsky.social and @okfn.bsky.social.

🤨 How to build #AI literacy as a collective strategy? Join the #OpenDataEditor community next week to share your learning strategies. 🗓️ 16 Sep 🕒 15:00 CEST 📍 Online Register: buff.ly/UBqtqB9

🤗 Today, our software developer Andres Vázquez @avdata99.bsky.social took part in the #CKAN community workshop in Bologna, where we discussed use cases, upcoming features, experiments, new connections and collaborations. 🧵

☀️ Great atmosphere at #GlobalGathering2025 in Estoril! Lots of people from different backgrounds sharing challenges and positive experiences. We'll be there again tomorrow – keep an eye out for Romina Colman and Cassandra Woolford to discuss #OpenDataEditor and our various projects.

✊🏾🇵🇹 The @okfn.bsky.social team will be at the #GlobalGathering in Estoril, Portugal, next week. If you're attending too, stop by our booth (Monday, 15:30 CEST) to say hello and find out more about #OpenDataEditor and our recent activities. 📸 Some SWAG getting ready for GG on a sofa.