🗳️ 🗯️ Next week, we'll be joined by experts in technology and elections to take stock of the past year and explore how technology has shaped electoral processes around the world. This event is part of #TheTechWeWant initiative – our ambitious effort to reimagine how technology is built and used. We believe software should be useful, simple, long-lasting, and, most importantly, focused on solving real-world problems. 🔴 Retrospective on the Role of Technology in the Super Election Year 2024 🗓 Date: January 14th, 2025 🌍 Where: Online 🕑 Time: 14:00 UTC Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d-F9DVRK 👉🏾 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dAREh-CX

💫 As this year draws to a close, read our CEO's thoughts on how #TheTechWeWant will be at the centre of everything we do in 2025.

With a webinar where we explained the results, yesterday we ended at Storydata the pilot of the Open Data Editor software, from the Open Knowledge Foundation, a #OpenData organization with which we feel completely aligned. During two months the Storydata team, Cristina Claverol López, Carlos Albaladejo and Eli Vivas and ACIJ - Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia organization, have tested the functionalities of this tool, which will help people without coding knowledge to detect errors in their data. We have made recommendations for improvements, and have detected potential users. In our experience, there are more and more technicians from public administrations or companies, researchers, journalists or designers who are becoming data viewers, without a technical background, but who are going to incorporate data in their daily work. Open Data Editor will help them to see why the calculations are not working well or why they cannot visualize them. We explain here the result of our test. https://lnkd.in/dAaFitj4 Thanks Romina Colman Sara Petti and Open Knowledge Foundation for trusting us. --------- Con un webinar donde explicamos los resultados, ayer finalizamos en Storydata el piloto del software Open Data Editor, de la Open Knowledge Foundation, una organización de hashtag #OpenData con la nos sentimos completamente alineadas. Junto a ACIJ - Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia, durante dos meses el equipo de Storydata Cristina Claverol López, Carlos Albaladejo y Eli Vivas, hemos testeado las funcionalidades de esta herramienta, que va a servir para que personas sin conocimientos de código, puedan detectar errores en sus datos. Cada vez son más las personas que se acercan a los datos sin conocimientos previos. Dotar a estas personas de herramientas que ayuden al trabajo de tratamiento de datos es fundamental para garantizar la calidad de publicación y el procesamiento. Además, recientemente han incorporado un plugin de IA para mejorar la nomenclatura de las columnas. Hemos hecho recomendaciones de mejoras, y hemos detectado potenciales usuarios. Por nuestra experiencia, existen cada vez más técnicos de administraciones públicas o de empresas, investigadores, periodistas o diseñadores que se están transformando en visualizadores de datos, sin un background técnico, pero que van a incorporar los datos en su trabajo diario. Open Data Editor les servirá para ver por qué no les están funcionando bien los cálculos o por qué no pueden visualizarlos. Explicamos aquí el resultado de nuestro testeo. https://lnkd.in/dAaFitj4 Gracias Romina Colman Sara Petti y todo el equipo de Open Knowledge Foundation por confiar en nosotras en este tipo de proyectos.

[English Below] 🌎🇧🇷🪅 Hemos tardado unos días en asimilar un acontecimiento de la magnitud de #AméricaAbierta en Brasil. En el siguiente artículo, nuestro Tech Lead Patricio Del Boca organiza algunas de nuestras impresiones tras participar en charlas relacionadas principalmente con la crisis climática: ◉ Hay una enorme falta de herramientas y capacidad. ◉ Es esencial empezar a generar datos para responder a las catástrofes. ◉ Un papel importante de la sociedad civil es aportar capacidad y perspectiva a los gobiernos en tiempos de crisis. ◉ Existe una enorme brecha (en términos de comunicación) entre los activistas y los ciudadanos. ◉ Lo mismo ocurre entre el gobierno y los ciudadanos; hay que transformar la comunicación gubernamental. ◉ Los momentos de crisis generan iniciativas voluntarias que informan al Estado, el reto ahora es cómo institucionalizar esos esfuerzos. ◉ La necesidad de incluir la visión y las voces de los jóvenes en el movimiento. 👉🏾 Lea el post completo: https://lnkd.in/dN-2hTwa 🌱 También pudimos presentar el #OpenDataEditor de primera mano a la comunidad latinoamericana. Quedamos muy contentos con la acogida de la herramienta en la comunidad, con comentarios muy interesantes y contactos de pequeñas organizaciones interesadas en los programas piloto. En el próximo año, esperamos ampliar nuestras contribuciones con las organizaciones de Latam parte del movimiento abierto. (¡Y felicitaciones a Open Knowledge Brasil por un evento tan increíble!) ------ 🌎🇧🇷🪅 It took us a few days to digest an event as huge as #OpenAmerica in Brazil. In the following post by our Tech Lead Patricio Del Boca, we've organised some of our learnings after engaging in discussions mainly about the climate crisis: ◉ There is a huge lack of tools and capacity. ◉ It is essential to start generating data for disaster response. ◉ An important role for civil society is to provide capacity and perspective to governments in times of crisis. ◉ There is a huge gap (in terms of communication) between activists and citizens. ◉ The same is true between government and citizens; government communication needs to be transformed. ◉ Moments of crisis generate voluntary initiatives that inform the state, the challenge now is how to institutionalise such efforts. ◉ The need to include the vision and voices of young people in the movement. 👉🏾 Read the full post: https://lnkd.in/duBEArKC 🌱 We were also able to launch #OpenDataEditor first-hand to the Latin American community. We were very happy with the reception of the tool in the community, with very interesting feedback and contacts from small organisations interested in the pilot programmes. In the coming year, we hope to expand our contributions with the Latam organisations part of the open movement! (And congrats Open Knowledge Brasil for such a powerful event!)

🤗 Making #TheTechWeWant means being on the right side with the best partners. At Open Knowledge Foundation, we're proud to contribute to The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation / Vilas Dhar's vision of redefining #AI with social purpose. 👇🏽 Look at how many amazing things have happened this year. 💫 Towards 2025 together and with even more impact!

🌟 Spoiler: no need to code! #OpenDataEditor is the Open Knowledge Foundation's new open source app that makes working with #data easier for people with little to no technical skills. It was developed throughout the year thanks to the support of The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dQksUNtm Join us this week for the release webinar and get to know the early adopter of ODE! 🗓️ December 19 🕐 13:00 UTC 👩🏽💻 Online ✍🏽 Register: https://lnkd.in/deS45Gkj #OpenData #TheTechWeWant

Besides being very successful projects, Prototype Fund & Prototype Fund CH are great examples of project replication within the #OpenKnowledgeNetwork. On 26th November, during our Network monthly call, Marie Kreil, co-director of the Prototype Fund at Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e. V., and Verena Kontschieder, Project Lead for Prototype Fund at Opendata.ch (our Swiss chapter), presented the Prototype Fund in their respective countries. 💡 Did you know the story behind this initiative? 👉🏾 Learn more in this blog by Sara Petti: https://lnkd.in/dtngdcnA

The Open Knowledge Foundation Network connects activists and change-makers of the #OpenKnowledge movement from more than 40 countries around the world, who are advancing open and equitable access to knowledge for all everyday through their work. We believe knowledge is power, and that with key information accessible and openly available, power can be held to account, inequality challenged, and inefficiencies exposed. With the Network we meet virtually once a month. During our monthly call two weeks ago we had the chance to hear about Prototype Fund in Germany and Switzerland from Marie Kreil (Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e. V.) and Verena Kontschieder (Opendata.ch) [Thank you both SO much!]. 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 funding. It is a space for experiment. Besides being a very successful project, Prototype Fund is also a great example of project replication within the Network, something we would love to see happening more! Are you curious to know more? I wrote a short blog to recap the call. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/d9BiRpw4

💫 Thank you Storydata and ACIJ Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia for your help in joining the pilot programme before the release of the stable version of the #OpenDataEditor. In the following blogs, you can find out what this Barcelona-based data journalism agency and this Argentina-based non-profit had to say: 🇪🇸 https://lnkd.in/dcQj-U3Z 🇦🇷 https://lnkd.in/dn2SBiRH #TheTechWeWant #OpenData

🤔 Have you faced issues while finding and accessing #opengovernment data? Are you a government employee or an active citizen? ✍🏽 Take the survey below and, like us, collaborate with Liubov Pilshchikova's PhD research at ODECO Delft University of Technology. 👉🏾 https://lnkd.in/dpxr4XEy