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✨ Announcing Our New Field Guide: #TheTechWeWant | Read This Before You Build ✨
👉🏾 Access it here: https://blog.okfn.org/2025/09/23/our-new-field-guide-the-tech-we-want-read-this-before-you-build/
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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@okfn Let's all build #TheTechWeWant -- Useful, simple, long-lasting tech that solves real problems
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🎯 On 19 August, @okfn is bringing together #AI experts and #digitalliteracy practitioners to discuss the challenges of building AI capacity for civil society organisations, activists, and the open movement.
👉🏾 Register here: https://blog.okfn.org/register-for-ai-literacy-workshop/
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🎓 #OpenDataEditor: Training for Trainers
Discover five inspiring stories of data trainings held around the world — all based on the online course “Quality and Consistent Data with Open Data Editor.”
📖 Read them here
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🙏🏽 #TheTechWeWant is our initiative based on a simple belief: technology should be useful, simple, long-lasting, and focused on solving real problems.
Let’s look back at some powerful voices from last year’s Summit. 💬
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🇳🇬 Open Data Training for Enugu Advocates!
The Technology for Inspiration Initiative hosted a 2-day workshop to help civil society groups clean and manage their data — empowering advocacy on health, gender, education & more.
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🗣️ “#OpenDataEditor has proved to be a timely & incredibly useful tool”
As part of the ODE pilot, The Demography Project used it to streamline open data work on air quality, elections & more — saving time and simplifying workflows.
https://blog.okfn.org/2025/06/24/how-open-data-editor-simplifies-open-data-analysis-processes/
cc The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
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🌎 Meet the new global cohort piloting #OpenDataEditor!
From India to Ghana, these orgs are shaping AI-ready tools with a new offline #AI feature to detect patterns & anomalies while respecting privacy and transparency.
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📰 #OpenDataEditor in Action: ODE helped @datacritica 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: https://blog.okfn.org/2025/11/28/open-data-editor-in-action-interrogating-data-for-investigative-journalism-in-mexico/
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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: https://okfn.org/en/projects/open-data-editor/
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🌟 #OpenDataEditor in Action: ODE helped An AI of Our Own (AAOO) 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: https://blog.okfn.org/2025/11/05/open-data-editor-in-action-building-culturally-accurate-and-global-south-sensitive-ai-datasets/
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🌟 🙌🏾 Actualización emocionante: #OpenDataEditor ha sido reconocido como un #bienpúblicodigital por la @dpgalliance.
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: https://blog.okfn.org/es/2025/10/22/open-data-editor-es-reconocido-como-bien-publico-digital/
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🙇🏽♀️ 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 (@info_activism).
🎥 Recording: https://blog.okfn.org/2025/07/18/join-the-community-shaping-odes-future-with-ai-open-sessions/#open-sessions-3
Stay tuned for Open Session #4 in a month!
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🇧🇯 #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.
👉🏾 https://blog.okfn.org/2025/09/02/two-training-sessions-to-strengthen-open-data-culture-in-benin/
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🔵 In 2025, OKFN contributed content with a keynote by Project Manager @sape_by focusing on the #OpenDataEditor (ODE): our simple, low-tech application designed to detect errors in tables and improve #dataliteracy in non-technical communities.
More: https://buff.ly/dfdSaSD
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🤨 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
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✊🏾🇵🇹 The @okfn 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.
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🤨 What happens when you upload your data to AI-powered services? Join the #OpenDataEditor community next week to learn and discuss how transparency, accountability, and fairness are maintained (or overlooked).
🗓️ 26 Aug
🕒 15:00 CEST
📍 OnlineRegister: https://blog.okfn.org/register-for-open-sessions-2/
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🇧🇷 #OpenDataEditor: Training for Trainers
Check out the highlights of Anicely Santos' training to 66 professionals across Brazil. Her approach of “uncomplicating the work with data' was approved by 88% of the participants.
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🇧🇩 #OpenDataEditor: Training for Trainers
MRB Rafi led training sessions at the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), exploring the first steps to working with #opendata. Spoiler alert: there were many eye-opening moments. 👇🏽
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🇧🇷 #OpenDataEditor: Training for Trainers
Juliana Lima led training sessions at the Federal University of Ceará, reaching a diverse audience of students and citizens. The workshops explored key concepts for understanding and working with #OpenData. 👇🏽
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🚀 Shaping ODE’s Future with #AI & Open Sessions!
#OpenDataEditor is evolving — from spreadsheet validation to AI-assisted workflows and trust-building features.
🗣️ Join our upcoming Open Sessions to reflect on ODE’s next steps!
Register now!
https://blog.okfn.org/2025/07/18/join-the-community-shaping-odes-future-with-ai-open-sessions/
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🇨🇬 Find out in this blog what Ivan Kibangou Ngoy, member of the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork from #CongoBrazzaville, thinks about the country's decision to use #biometrics to increase confidence in #elections.
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What a great way to start the week! Join us in welcoming a new member to the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork – Ivan Kibangou Ngoy from #CongoBrazzaville 🇨🇬 🌍 💪🏾 💚
Check out their brand new page: https://okfn.org/en/republic-of-the-congo/
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💻🌱 #TheTechWeWant documentation: You can now access the video and summary of Panel 4 - "We are Making the Tech We Want" with Isabela F. @torproject @pdelboca @webspookie @oshwassociation @jaromil @dyne Zoë Kooyman @fsf @angienicoleod #Ushahidi.
👉🏾 https://blog.okfn.org/2024/11/20/panel-we-are-making-the-tech-we-want/
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🫶🏾 🔓 "When embracing #opensource, one must be intentional about being #inclusive"
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💫 More about the #TheTechWeWant initiative. Let's start having the hard conversations and reimagine together how technology is built and used!
👉🏾 Join the #FrictionlessSummit: https://bbb.okfn.org/rooms/pyp-cpg-3cf-1sl/join
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💫 Happening now: Some provocative questions from @okfn 's Tech Lead, @pdelboca, as he presents the #TheTechWeWant initiative. Do you ask yourself these questions when you're developing technology?
👉🏾 Join the #FrictionlessSummit: https://bbb.okfn.org/rooms/pyp-cpg-3cf-1sl/join
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💫 Happening now: Adam Shepherd shows how the submission process works for the oceanography research community around BCO-DMO using #DataPackage.
👉🏾 You can still join the #FrictionlessSummit: https://bbb.okfn.org/rooms/pyp-cpg-3cf-1sl/join
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💫 Happening now: Nicholas Kellet presents the Climate Change Impact Platform, where you can upload a list of physical infrastructure and check it for environmental hazards.
👉🏾 You can still join the #FrictionlessSummit: https://bbb.okfn.org/rooms/pyp-cpg-3cf-1sl/join