🇪🇺 Top 3 recommendations from the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork to shape the @EU_Commission's Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy:

📑 Dedicated EU funding for open digital infrastructure
📑 Open-source as mandatory in EU-funded projects
📑 EU-wide platforms for code, tools and expertise

🤩 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.

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🎥 Missed our roundtable 'From Software to Society — Openness in a Changing World'? Here's a chance to rewatch it.

Joined this global panel of speakers from the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork to explore key insights from this new key report.

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⏳ Just one day to go! Join the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork tomorrow for a global roundtable on today’s key challenges for #openness.

🕐 12:00 CEST (10:00 UTC)
📍 Online

🔗 Register now! buff.ly/pdEsRcJ

🌍 What can local practices teach us about defending #openness and the #digitalcommons?

In this roundtable next Thursday, members of the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork from around the world will share reflections on common challenges.

👉 And you can join the conversation: buff.ly/pdEsRcJ

🌐 What does #openness mean around the world today?

Join the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork next week to discuss how different local practices help defend the digital commons.

Register now! 👉 buff.ly/pdEsRcJ

Prototype Fund: a successful story of project replication within the Open Knowledge Network Prototype Fund offers funding with a lightweight structure for public interest tech, allowing individuals and small teams who do not have professional grant-writing skills to easily access public…

Besides being a very successful project, the Prototype Fund is a great example of project replication within the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork.

💡 Did you know the story behind this initiative?

👉🏾 Learn in this blog by Sara Petti:

💙 We would like to thank the #opendata community and the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork, that helped us during the user research and testing phase, and especially @storydata.bsky.social and ACIJ as the official testing organisations.

🗺️ Over the last few months, the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork has been working on mapping the wider open ecosystem. In these blogs by Julieta Millan and Eshter Plomp, you can browse (and contribute to) the maps of #Latam and #Europe:

🌎 https://buff.ly/4goL3Cr
🌍 https://buff.ly/4eRnalJ

📖 One of our tasks in the open movement is to tell better stories – and we start with "Tales from Jokkolandia", a narration that emerged at the last #OpenKnowledgeNetwork annual meeting last August in Katowice, Poland.

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🔓🌳 A must-see for anyone working at the intersection of #openness and #climatejustice. In 1 hour, join Open Climate Campaign, OKFN, Jan Ainali, Melissa Hagemann & Maxwell Beganim at #Wikimania2024.

Streaming and interpretation 👉🏾 https://buff.ly/4cmBktI

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🛬 🇵🇱 Next week a delegation from @okfn.bsky.social and the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork will be in #Poland taking part in #Wikimania 2024.

See the details of each session and come and say hello – in person or virtually.

👉🏾 More details on the blog: https://buff.ly/4d1N328

🚀 🌐 A new phase is now beginning for the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork!

We are announcing a prototype programme with the opening of 5 regional hubs for more decentralisation and diversity. Find out more and join us in welcoming the coordinators.

👉🏾 blog.okfn.org/2024/04/24/o...

Global Movement Join the Open Knowledge Network to connect with people where you live and round the world to open information and use it to empower communities.

Everyone is welcome to join the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork. Learn how: okfn.org/en/network/#...

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: okfn.org/en/republic-...

Open Knowledge Network Regional Hubs Coordinators - Call for Applications Are you a community practitioner or a researcher interested in international networks and the digital commons? This could be an interesting opportunity for you.

New year resolution: we want to better support the 🌐 #OpenKnowledgeNetwork. Until ️⭐️28 January️⭐️, @okfn.bsky.social is accepting applications from community practitioners interested in coordinating Regional Hubs. Maybe it's you?

Check out the details – blog.okfn.org/2024/01/17/o...