#thetechwewant — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #thetechwewant, aggregated by home.social.
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⛵️ If you manage one of the 1,000+ active instances across more than 60 countries, #CKAN 2.12 is out!
This is the release portal teams have been waiting for → https://ckan.org/blog/ckan-2-12-released
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⛵️ What are the strategic advantages of using #DigitalPublicGoods (DPGs) for your #opendata infrastructure?
Our Tech Lead, Patricio Del Boca, joins Kate Sampher for a conversation part of the #CKAN Demo Series.
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RE: https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud/116680419669943290
👏🎂 Congratulations to @nextcloud on its 10th anniversary today! As an organisation that has been active for over two decades, we know just how much resilience it takes to champion an alternative technology stack. Here's to another 10 years!
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🔜 Join us next week on the @dpgalliance Webinar '𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀.'
📅 April 30
⏰ 3:00pm CET (60 min)
📍 Zoom Webinar
📝 Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__IHGcRbVRrmT-GUs0VvLOw -
#Europe is a good place to plant the seed of #TheTechWeWant. Check the study by @allianzfoundation https://next-generations-study.com/explore/myth-busted-do-young-people-trust-technology/
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The topic of the moment is #governance ⚖️
For those who missed the launch in December, here's the latest field guide from @okfn to help you sustain your public interest tech projects and communities.
Tip: here's no one-size-fit-all 📐
👉🏾 Learn more: https://blog.okfn.org/2025/12/08/new-field-guide-the-tech-we-want-who-decides-a-quick-guide-to-governance/
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🏅 We are proud to announce the inclusion of #OpenDataEditor in the #InfraFinder catalogue, an open infrastructure discovery and assessment tool by @investinopen.
👉🏾 ODE listing: https://infrafinder.investinopen.org/solutions/open-data-editor?ref=investinopen.org
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🔖 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.
👉🏾 https://blog.okfn.org/2025/09/23/our-new-field-guide-the-tech-we-want-read-this-before-you-build/
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😵 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
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🌟 ¡Por un mayor impacto y aprendizaje a través de los datos abiertos!
Para saber más, el proceso de desarrollo de #OpenDataEditor y sus lecciones están documentados en nuestra reciente guía práctica:
👉 #TheTechWeWant | Read This Before You Build
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🏛️🗯️ 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.
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✍️✨ 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!
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✨ 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
🔗 https://blog.okfn.org/register-for-the-tech-we-want-read-this-before-you-build/ -
🚩 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: https://blog.okfn.org/register-for-the-tech-we-want-read-this-before-you-build/
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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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🤗 Yesterday we had the 1st organised community gathering around #OpenDataEditor – the community took over the agenda, and the conversation was very rewarding and forward-looking.
🎥 Recording: https://buff.ly/4HE4RhG
Stay tuned for Open Session #2 in a month!
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📬 The next edition of our newsletter is coming this Monday!
Get the latest updates from the global #OpenMovement straight to your inbox.
👉 Subscribe here: https://buff.ly/GJ7pkBb
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📢 Last chance to register!
Tomorrow is Open Sessions #1 — don’t miss the opportunity to connect with the global open knowledge community to discuss the main features of the #OpenDataEditor.
🔗Register now! https://buff.ly/bhDwHmv
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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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📊 Open Data Training in Uyo, Nigeria!
A two-part workshop brought together students, civil servants, and educators to explore the basics of cleaning and organising data using the #OpenDataEditor.
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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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🚨 Problem: At Bioinformatics Hub of Kenya, messy data blocked student contributions & slowed research.
✅ Solution: With ODE, they cleaned datasets, fixed metadata & made genomic data easier to explore.
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🗣️“Using #OpenDataEditor has been incredibly beneficial in my data work”
As part of the ODE pilot, the City of Zagreb’s Information Systems team used ODE to align with FAIR principles and adopt frictionless standards for consistent data quality
📖 Read their story: https://buff.ly/NF0jF4n
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🇮🇳 Open Data Workshop in Meerut!
90+ researchers, librarians & academics explored open data, FAIR principles, and learned to use #OpenDataEditor — building skills to become data advocates in their communities.
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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
#TheTechWeWant -
🌍 5,000+ users and counting!
#OpenDataEditor is helping communities around the world fix messy data, improve data quality, and save time — no coding needed.
🔗 Learn more and download here: https://buff.ly/USoJeBO