Our mission is to create a fair, sustainable and open digital future, advancing open knowledge as a design principle beyond just data. We will do it by guiding and supporting the creation of digital infrastructure, developing policies and methodologies, harnessing communities and advocating for literacies and standards in a sustainable, ethical and agile manner.

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2004

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open data, data visualisation, information curation, information processing, open knowledge, open source software, open licensing, data skills, digital public infrastructure, data literacy, and open government

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  Non-Executive Director, CEO, Board Member, Open Systems Thinker

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  Professor at Musashi University

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  ✨ Thank you to everyone who attended the#FrictionlessSummit today and embarked on our ambitious effort to reimagine how technology is built and used - the initiative we call#TheTechWeWant. Very present and engaged in the discussion, the#FrictionlessData community gave demonstrations of how Frictionless specifications and software are being used today, after more than 10 years of the project being active. Later, we moved on to a conversation about the future of Frictionless from a#TheTechWeWant perspective – in short, we are pushing open tech communities to discuss new practical ways to build software that is useful, simple, long-lasting and focused on solving people's real problems.The video documentation will be available soon. For now, a short summary of the amazing content:📊Pierre Camilleri explained how he uses the Validata platform (https://validata.fr) byOpenDataFrance to validate data from the French open data portaldata.gouv.fr.✅Romina Colman demonstrated how the#OpenDataEditor works,Open Knowledge Foundation 's desktop application to detect errors in tables. It's optimised for non-technical users! 🦌Peter Desmet showed a concrete application of the#DataPackage in the Camtrap DP project (https://lnkd.in/dvvUUjY2) to observe animals in wildlife in a non-intrusive way.🌊Nicholas Kellett presented the Climate Change Impact Platform byDeploy Solutions , where you can upload a list of physical infrastructure and check it for environmental hazards.📃Phil Schumm highlighted the NIH/University of Chicago's data management and sharing policy for biomedical research, aligned with the Frictionless standards.🪸Adam Shepherd and Amber York showed how the submission process works for the oceanography research community aroundBiological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office and using#DataPackage.🧊Ethan Welty showed how they use#FrictionlessData to describe and test glacier mass loss data with metadata. And the importance of being metadata-driven!💥 Then OKFN's Tech Lead,Patricio Del Boca, asked some provocative questions as he presented#TheTechWeWant initiative to spark the community conversation.Do you ask yourself these questions when you're developing technology?• Will it be running in 15 years?• How much work will you need to put in two years to update your project?• How many of your dependencies will be deprecated in five years?• Are you building Products or Infrastructure?• Are you measuring the value of what you are building to ensure funds?#OpenData#OpenCommunity#OpenSource#OpenMovement

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  🇫🇷 Observatoire des armements / CDRPC is one of the organisations piloting the#OpenDataEditor. 💬 Sayat Topuzogullari, Coordinator: “Our monitoring network aims to involve as many people as possible in#defense and#security issues, a taboo subject in France. For this reason, it’s essential to offer an easy tool for finding errors in databases and improving#dataquality.”Our goal at theOpen Knowledge Foundation this year is to enhance#digitalliteracy through no-code tools. Using ODE helps to fill the literacy gap for people and teams in non-technological sectors, as it has the potential to be a useful tool for working with different types of datasets, such as climate, gender, infrastructure, health, genomic, GLAM, public sector data and government accountability, among others.👉🏾 More:https://lnkd.in/d_P5FyyU#opendata#TheTechWeWant#Impact

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  📣 Enroll now! "Quality and Consistent Data with the#OpenDataEditor" – a free, learn-by-doing online course designed for non-technical users. Developed withOpen Knowledge Brasil andEscola de Dados, it is part of our mission to increase#digitalliteracy and empower communities with practical tools for working with data—no coding required.👉🏽 More:https://lnkd.in/dcFkCAW6⭐️ What you’ll learn ⭐️ ✅ Detecting and fixing errors in tables• Learn to work with#tabulardata• Don’t get lost when validating your spreadsheet• Clean up your spreadsheets to gain valuable insights✅ FAIR data principles• Understand how to guarantee the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets• Master all about#metadata• Understand the#OpenDefinition and the principles of#opendata✅ Learning-by-doing• Follow in the footsteps of an exclusive instructor• Get hands-on and learn from your mistakes and successes• Learn how to handle databases without writing codeThis course is specially designed for:🔹 Non-technical users who work with data but lack advanced technical training🔹 Journalists, researchers, and civil society members looking to handle data more effectively🔹 Anyone interested in improving#dataquality*The course will soon be translated into Portuguese and Spanish. If you would like to contribute to the translation into other languages, please contact us atinfo@okfn.org.

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  🥳 And that's a wrap for our mini#OpenData Open House! Thanks for joining. Even though we weren't able to have our usual regional discussions this year, we're sure there are more opportunities for learning and exchange in the coming months.✨ 👏 ThanksLucas Pretti for joining us at the very last minute and speaking on behalf ofOpen Knowledge Foundation and partners—about the initiatives that took place for#OpenDataDay this year. We're thrilled to see that a lot of the events took place in LatAm, Asia and Africa! 😍 ✨ 👏 Gracias—Luisa Fernanda Medina from Government of Colombia who shared about their work in open data and Data Infrastructure National Plan. Wonderful to see that#data training and education is part of their strategy. 🌟Ministerio de Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones✨ 👏 And last but not least, many thanks also toMikhail Parfentev who presented the very comprehensive open data initiatives they've rolled out in#Azerbaijan, which even includes an#AI strategy! 🫣 🤖 🥰 How very encouraging to sign-off from our first Implementation Working Group meeting of the year, inspired to collaborate and help more governments to open up their data, purposefully. We'll share the videos once they're ready! 💙#OnwardswithOpenness#OpenGovNatalia CarfiRenato Berrino MalaccortoMercedes de los Santos

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  🇰🇪The Demography Project is one of the organisations piloting the#OpenDataEditor. 💬Richard M., Executive Director: “A no-code tool will truly be a game-changer in how my team reviews and validates our tabulated environmental datasets to identify trends and errors and ultimately publish our outputs for collective#climateaction.”Our goal at theOpen Knowledge Foundation this year is to enhance#digitalliteracy through no-code tools. Using ODE helps to fill the literacy gap for people and teams in non-technological sectors, as it has the potential to be a useful tool for working with different types of datasets, such as climate, gender, infrastructure, health, genomic, GLAM, public sector data and government accountability, among others.👉🏾 More:https://lnkd.in/d_P5FyyU#opendata#TheTechWeWant

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  🙌🏾 It's time to hear about the grassroots impact of#OpenDataDay directly from the community. 🌊 Today: "Turning Data into Solutions for Floods, Smog, and Wildfires in#Thailand", byThanisara GG Ruangdej /WeVisEach year we invite mini-grant-winning organisers to write a report on the event, in an initiative called#ODDStories. What an inspiration these photos and texts are!🇹🇭https://lnkd.in/d-peEQ93#ODD25#OpenData

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  🙌🏾 Next Friday we'll be discussing the future of #FrictionlessData from the perspective of#TheTechWeWant initiative – our ambitious effort to reimagine how technology is built and used. Frictionless Data is a decade-long progressive open-source framework for building data infrastructure – data management, data integration, data validation and data flows. At this 3-hour online summit, the goal is to bring together maintainers, users, and contributors to discuss challenges, priorities, and governance for the project moving forward.👉🏾 Check the programme and register now:https://lnkd.in/dQWQ_Agv#DataPackage#OpenData

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  #CKANMonthlyLive is happening today! Six developers will present useful#OpenSource#CKANExtensions at CKAN Extensions Demo Day: -Andres Vazquez atOpen Knowledge Foundation-Jesse Vickery atGovernment of Canada-Joel Natividad atdatHere-Michael Polidori atDatopian-Oleksandr C. atLink Digital -Thomas Hanke atFraunhofer IWMCome see what’s possible with#CKAN, ask questions, and engage with the people building the future of#OpenData. See more details on the event page:https://lnkd.in/d5TDnhsR#DataInnovation#GovTech#CKANDevelopment#CKANDevelopers

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  🚀 Join us on March 19 at#CKANMonthlyLive for 𝗖𝗞𝗔𝗡 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼 𝗗𝗮𝘆—a special event where developers showcase their#CKAN extensions in 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 (𝟱–𝟭𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘀), helping users 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀, 𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗖𝗞𝗔𝗡 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲. And giving developers the visibility they need to 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬.Submit your extension now! 👉https://lnkd.in/ev_YnH74#CKANProject#OpenData#OpenSource#CKANExtensions

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  🙌🏾 It's time to hear about the grassroots impact of#OpenDataDay directly from the community. Each year we invite mini-grant-winning organisers to write a report on the event, in an initiative called#ODDStories. What an inspiration these photos and texts are!🌾 Today: "Equipping Journalists to Address Climate and Agricultural Issues in Owerri",#Nigeria, byHarriet Ijeomah /Harsco Global🇳🇬https://lnkd.in/dcqkhEYe#ODD25#OpenData

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  Open Data Day 2025 : Wikimedia Côte d’Ivoire s’engage pour la transparence !Le 1er mars 2025, Wikimedia Côte d’Ivoire a pris part à l’#OpenDataDay avec une initiative d’impact sous le thème :🗺️ Cartographier les sites d’orpaillage clandestin en Côte d’Ivoire sur OpenStreetMap et Wikidata 🌍🔍 Nos réalisations en chiffres :📍260 sites d’orpaillage clandestin identifiés et ajoutés sur OpenStreetMap🗃️ 593 nouvelles entrées enrichies sur Wikidata👥 10 contributeurs mobilisés pour rendre visibles ces données essentiellesPourquoi est-ce crucial ?En rendant ces données accessibles, nous permettons aux chercheurs, décideurs et citoyens d’agir en faveur d’une meilleure gestion des ressources naturelles et des territoires.Pour en savoir plus 👉🏾https://shorturl.at/8t8JA👏 Un immense merci à nos participants et partenaires ! Ensemble, nous démontrons que les données ouvertes peuvent être un levier puissant pour plus de transparence et d’impact. Continuons à collaborer !#OpenDataDay#ODD25#DonnéesOuvertes#OpenStreetMap#Wikidata#Transparence#InnovationCollaborativeCommunauté d'Afrique Francophone des Données Ouvertes (CAFDO)Open Knowledge Foundation

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