Open News, Events, Blogs
The COIWeb aggregates news, opinions and developments from various research sources around the world, including:
- The Open Data Research Network hosted by the Web Foundation,
- World Bank Open Data & ICT4D Blogs
- Open Knowledge Foundation
- GovLabs @ NYU
ICT-Pulse
What are important ethical principles that should be implemented to protect users in the metaverse and other digital spaces? Jamaican social enterprise, Youth Can Do IT (YCDI), in collaboration with Jesus College (Oxford), developed some ethical guidelines for the metaverse. In this episode, we chat with members of YCDI Joel Lawson, one of the...
More and more people want to work from anywhere. Thanks to the internet, it is increasingly possible to become a digital nomad, but for working professionals in particular, it is important to manage the upheaval and uncertainty that can be associated with that lifestyle.
The digital nomad lifestyle is often relegated to daydreams:...
In our October 2024 Community Chat, and with members of the Caribbean tech community, Debbie Jollie, the Stammering Communicator who is based in Trinidad and Tobago, and Technology Architect and Digital Transformation Consultant, Garfield Gordon, of Jamaica, the panel discusses: our continuing vulnerability to cyberattacks; ESG versus CSR...
Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
Last week, we had the opportunity to participate in the Annual Members Meeting of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) in Singapore. The meeting is a space for all members of the Alliance to get together once a year to discuss agendas, updates, next steps and participate in discussions about the future of Digital Public Goods. It was also...
This report maps the current threats and opportunities facing the open movement, based on the ongoing work of the organisations behind the Common(s) Cause event, which took place in Katowice, Poland; as a pre-conference event for Wikimania 2024 on 6 August, 2024.
The meeting was organised by Creative Commons, Open Knowledge Foundation,...
We’re thrilled to announce that the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) has achieved NGOsource Equivalency Determination (ED) certification, formally establishing our recognition as equivalent to a US public charity. This status represents a major milestone for OKFN and opens new avenues for partnerships and support from US-based donors and...
On 10 October 2024 the regional call for Europe for the Open Knowledge Network was held online. The discussion was facilitated by Esther Plomp, the Regional Coordinator for Europe.
Objectives and context of the meeting
The Europe regional call aimed to understand whether it would be helpful to map the connections between existing...
Text originally published by CNRS, Paris
Earlier this year, the Centre for Internet and Society, CNRS convened a panel at CPDP.ai. The panel brought together researchers and experts of digital commons to try and answer the question at the heart of the conference – to govern AI or to be governed by AI?
The panel was moderated by Alexandra...
On 14 October 2024, between 12:30 and 13:30, a crucial regional meeting for the coordination of French-speaking African countries in the Open Knowledge Network was held online. This virtual meeting brought together various stakeholders in the field of open data in French-speaking Africa, with the main aim of mapping the civil society organisations...
As the title says, both the repository and website of ReactDataGrid, an important dependency for our Open Data Editor, have suddenly disappeared—404 errors, DNS not resolving, just gone. Normally, we would create an issue in the repository (which we did), explore alternatives, allocate time and resources, and replace it. However, given the...