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Today's newsletter brings an urgent call if you are involved or want to get involved in improving our digital democracies. In just 5 hours, we will promote the first round table of our latest project, Digital Public Infrastructures for Electoral Processes, focused on the electoral reality in Latin America. It is the first step towards forming a global alliance that Open Knowledge is leading.
Find out more and join us!
In the month of September, we did not stop advocating and fighting to spread open knowledge and create conditions and infrastructure so that the real lives of people and communities around the world improve with the use of open and public data, protocols and processes. We interacted with several multi-stakeholder platforms (for example, at the Internet Governance Forum in Kyoto) and joined several coalitions – we are now proud members of the Digital Public Good Alliance and the Global Digital Justice Forum.
We also didn't stop designing events and opportunities to advance our openness as a design principle agenda, always in partnership with other actors in our movement.
In November, in Uruguay, in honor of the Day of the Dead, join us for a toast to memories and lessons from past data projects. It will be an informal gathering in partnership with SocialTIC and AbreLatam/ConDatos called Calaveras y Datitos (Skulls and Data).
In March next year, it's time for another Open Data Day (dates announced below!). Plan how you want to participate whether by hosting an event or joining as a sponsor. We are looking for partners – do you or your organisation want to join us?
One last call: forward this email and recommend our newsletter to a friend!
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Join us today at the first Community Round Table, focused on the electoral reality in Latin America
Our new project, Digital Public Infrastructure for Electoral Processes, starts today in an online Round Table with experts, activists, politicians and academics focused on the reality of Latin America. We are getting together only 3 days after the first round of the Argentinian elections, and the objective is to share experiences and challenges around electoral processes and technologies.
The event will be held in Spanish and live-streamed on OKFN's YouTube channel, but we encourage you to register and participate to connect with participants and join the discussion.
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About the project
We want to create and enable an international alliance to advocate, design and implement the following building blocks for a Digital Public Infrastructure for Electoral Processes. The goal of the alliance is to create open by design technology that can be reused to make democratic processes more trustworthy, resilient, and transparent.
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Electoral Data Standards
A data standard for governments to publish all their electoral data like districts, establishments, candidates, results, etc
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API for publishing results
Open Source web servers that can publish the elections results during the electoral processes.
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Open Data Portals
Open Data Portals as repositories for historical data of previous elections.
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Electoral Apps
Open Source apps where people can access information related to the election.
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Do you know of existing projects or professionals contributing to a digital public infrastructure for elections? Add them now to our Project Repository or Global Directory under the Open Elections category.
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Open Knowledge Foundation joins the Digital Public Goods Alliance
We are thrilled to announce our membership to the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA). The DPGA is a multi-stakeholder initiative with a mission to accelerate the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in low and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of and investment in digital public goods. This announcement follows one made recently when the DPGA added CKAN to the Digital Public Goods Registry and officially recognised it as a digital public good.
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"Every day, at OKFN, we craft technologies, standards, policies and practices to advance our digital commons. Joining the Alliance will enable us to collaborate and advocate for openness as a design principle of the public digital infrastructures of the future.”
– Renata Ávila, CEO of the Open Knowledge Foundation
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“We are delighted to welcome OKFN as a new member. Their membership brings valuable contributions to our community, and will help ensure digital public goods contribute to a future where open knowledge empowers communities worldwide."
– Lucy Harris, Co-Lead of the Digital Public Good Alliance
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In September we also actively participated in the Internet Governance Forum 2023, in Kyoto 🇯🇵 – check out the contributions of our CEO Renata Ávila in the following sessions:
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This latest session was promoted by the Global Digital Justice Forum, a coalition which OKFN has just joined. We are 16 organizations promoting human-rights based policies, and amplifying the role of civil society voices from the margins.
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Open Data Day (ODD) is an annual celebration of open data all over the world, where groups and communities gather to reach out to new people and build new solutions using open data. It is a bottom-up initiative created in 2010 and led by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) for the last 8 years.
In 2023, 180+ events took place in 15 languages around the world, showing the mobilising power of this vibrant community.
Some of the new features for 2024 include co-leading the event along with Open Knowledge Network members across 4 continents and a thematic focus on Open Data for Advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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2023 events in Tanzania 🇹🇿, Ukraine 🇺🇦, Venezuela 🇻🇪 and Togo 🇹🇬
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OKFN is looking for partners to help finance the event as a whole and sponsors to offer local grants, as in recent years, to help promote events worldwide. We need your partnership to make Open Data Day happen and maximise our impact as a movement!
Participating and supporting these actions is one of our ways to promote the sustainability of the open movement and help circulate knowledge globally in a fair, sustainable and open way.
Please contact us if you or your organisation want to support the Open Data Day and work together to promote open knowledge around the world.
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Check out the latest highlights from our global movement.
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In the Gambia, Jokkolabs Banjul participated and facilitated the organisation of the first West African Digital Governance Forum (WADGov) in September. Also, with the support from the Open Street Maps community, completed a series of capacity-building training for university students in the use of Open Street Mapping tools and other Open Data tools.
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November 2nd is the traditional Day of the Dead, widely celebrated in Mexico and across Latin America. Together with our partners Escuela de Datos, SocialTIC and AbreLatam/ConDatos, we will promote a night in Uruguay 🇺🇾 to remember, celebrate and learn from past projects. If you're close by, you can't miss Calaveras y Datitos (Skulls and Data).
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We are the technology arm of governments, organisations and communities around the world. Our services help you create, manage and publish open data. Some of our packages include:
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Openness Assessment
We will help you discover to what extent your infrastructure is truly open. This assessment is the first step for organisations that compile data, and want to make it openly available.
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Open Your Data
We solve the technical, social and legal challenges of opening up data. We can work with you to understand your needs, develop open data strategies, and establish best practices.
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Your Own CKAN
We will install and deploy a basic (out of the box) CKAN instance on your own infrastructure, including 3 plugins you select.
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About us.
Open knowledge is any content, information or data that people are free to use, re-use and redistribute — without any legal, technological or social restriction.
The Open Knowledge Foundation's mission is to create a free, fair and open future, advancing open knowledge as a design principle beyond just data. We do it by creating tools, developing models, harnessing communities and advocating for standards and policies in a sustainable, ethical and agile manner.
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