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🦾🗃 How to digitise a physical archive to work strategically with AI? While we are working on the full documentation of last week's roundtable discussion, here is the link to the video recording for those who have been asking for it: https://lnkd.in/dird2Jk3 As part of an #AILearningLabs collaboration, the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) and AVANCSO convened experts, developers, and practitioners to explore the design decisions that go into digitising physical archives today. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed tirelessly in the chat and to our guest speakers: Alejandro Flores Solana Larsen Subhashish Panigrahi Felipe Bengoa Trucco Open Platform Archive Network (OPAN) Gabriela Manuli International Press Institute (IPI) Elisavet Parisi Open Knowledge Foundation Greece ARXIVE-ECCCH

🌄 Learning alert! 🌄 Our Project Manager Kannika Thaimai shares some of the early lessons from OKFN’s most recent work on AI for public data. As part of the #AILearningLabs initiative, we are running pilots with Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) in Brazil and AGESIC in Uruguay to make AI-generated answers traceable, useful, and trustworthy. "𝙒𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣 𝘼𝙄 𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙖 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨." 📄 Read it here -> https://lnkd.in/dpyRwR8m 💬 Join the discussion and share your thoughts -> https://lnkd.in/dKfJjZRi cc The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation Digital Public Goods Alliance CKAN #TheTechWeWant

¿Qué tecnología queremos y quién decide sobre ella? 💻🌍 En #EmpoderaLIVE2025 hablamos con Solana Larsen, periodista y editora especializada en la relación entre tecnología y sociedad, y responsable de publicaciones sobre IA y alfabetización en la Open Knowledge Foundation. En esta entrevista reflexiona sobre #SoberaníaDigitalCiudadana y sobre la importancia de que las personas y comunidades puedan entender, participar y decidir en el mundo digital. Una conversación para pensar una tecnología más abierta, responsable y al servicio de la ciudadanía. ▶️ Entrevista completa en YouTube: https://lnkd.in/ey782HkA

💡 Tips for sourcing 𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 Global South data for your responsible climate chatbot 💡 Here's one more living resource from the #AILearningLabs, inspired by comments made by Gitanjali Yadav, Peter Murray-Rust, Maxwell Beganim and Alex Stinson during the online roundtable ’How to create a responsible climate chatbot?’, 18 May 2026 🤔 What would you add? What other strategies can be used to feed reliable data to a chatbot? 💬 Join the conversation → https://lnkd.in/dKfJjZRi 🔖 Read the roundtable recap → https://lnkd.in/dk6j_7Xj 🟪 Learn more about the Labs → https://lnkd.in/dmSVCSnt #AI #TheTechWeWant #TheAIWeWant

🤔 Are you preparing your application for the Open Technology Research Symposium 2026 and want to have a chat with our team? We're hosting open info sessions on 9 June – timed for Asia Pacific (08:00 CEST), Europe & Africa (13:00 CEST), and the Americas (18:00 CEST). 👉🏾 https://lnkd.in/eUFj_P9d

🦾🗃 For all those working at the intersection of #AI and #archives: join us at the next Open Knowledge's #AILearningLabs conversation. Alejandro Flores 👇🏾, an anthropologist working with AVANCSO, will moderate a conversation with experts, along with Solana Larsen, AI Literacy Lead at Open Knowledge Foundation, to discuss the design decisions that go into digitising physical archives today. What are the questions that a documentation centre needs to ask/answer to avoid missteps from the beginning? What are the time and resources needed to make an archive ready for AI? We’d love to hear about your experience! 🗓️ Mon, June 8, 2026 🕛 15:00 – 16:30 UTC 📍 Online ✍️ Register now: https://lnkd.in/dXtXhFKE ➕ Learn more about the AI Learning Labs: https://lnkd.in/ddrDfdTm  💬 Join the conversation: https://lnkd.in/dKfJjZRi

📣 New Uruguay/OKFN Partnership: Scaling reliable AI for open data across Latin America [Español en el primer comentario] The Open Knowledge Foundation’s Tech Team is collaborating with AGESIC to develope a prototype that will allow citizens to ask natural-language questions and receive responses that can be traced directly to the underlying datasets in Uruguay’s open data catalogue. As part of the #AILearningLabs initiative, this project employs the same technical architecture that is already being piloted with Brazil’s Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU), exploring a regional blueprint for the integration of reliable AI solutions. We hypothesise that making public data more accessible and usable will reinforce trust in public institutions and help combat misinformation. 👉🏾 Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/d983hrh9 We’ll be sharing updates on the project here and on the Open Knowledge Forum. Join the conversation: https://discuss.okfn.org/ cc Digital Public Goods Alliance The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation Presidencia Uruguay #TheTechWeWant #TheAIWeWant #AI #OpenData #OpenGovernment

Inauguramos el curso “Inteligencia Artificial y Derechos Humanos en Políticas Públicas” con el seminario web “Inteligencia artificial y derechos humanos: avanzando garantías desde América Latina”. Organizado por Derechos Digitales y la Escuela de Gobierno Alberto Lleras Camargo de la Universidad de los Andes, fue moderado por Jamila Venturini, Co-Directora Ejecutiva de Derechos Digitales y Juan David Gutiérrez Rodríguez, profesor asociado en la Escuela de Gobierno de la Universidad de los Andes, y reunió a dos voces internacionales: Renata Avila Ávila, directora de la Open Knowledge Foundation y Grace Thomson, directora de la Center for AI and Digital Policy. Las invitadas subrayaron el papel fundamental de la sociedad civil, el activismo de base y los movimientos sociales en la construcción de mecanismos reales de transparencia y control democrático sobre estas tecnologías. Además, coincidieron en que desde América Latina es fundamental impulsar modelos de gobernanza que prioricen la soberanía tecnológica, la justicia social y la protección de comunidades históricamente vulnerabilizadas. ▶️ Revive el encuentro: https://lnkd.in/eZByBv3G

👏🎂 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. Kudos to these folks, who are also maintainers of #DigitalPublicGoods and partners in #TheTechWeWant initiative. Here's to another 10 years!

🗄️ ✨ Many documentation centres in the Global South, which contain unique knowledge and data, are rarely used and are barely surviving due to a number of reasons: lack of resources, generational gap. Digitisation 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 be an answer. But where to start? What are the priorities? What are the resources required? How to make it in a way to take advantage of the inevitable AI? That's the #AILearningLabs discussion next week with AVANCSO. Join us! 👉🏾 https://lnkd.in/dXtXhFKE