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News from OKFI Tove Ørsted steps in as Chair. Kartalla historiasta Helsinki Region Infosharen kanssa. Kuka päättää avointen aineistojen käytöstä tekoälyn koulutuksessa? OK North sets sail.
From our network What came out of Oulu Löyly? KUORO recognized at Council of Europe’s Democracy Hackathon.
From the wider world Public AI and shared cultural knowledge. High-level Policy Talk. Pope Leo XIV addresses UNESCO on
AI and human dignity. Open data and AI at the UN General Assembly UNGA 81. UN System Data Commons. Digital@UNGA. OPEN @ UNGA 81: Can sovereignty and openness work together? Creative Nerd: From Modems to Meme Economy. Digime2026: AImo annos kulttuuriperintöä. What is the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage about? CommonsDB: building trustworthy rights information for the digital commons. Miten turvaamme digitaalisen tiedon?
Upcoming events • Reads
Highlight – What we’re up to Program for the Oulu Löyly open culture think & do fest is out – Apply to join! Save the date: OKFI Spring meeting 25 May. Open Heritage Statement at the UNESCO Paris headquarters. Hackathon as a key accelerator of the open data movement in Botswana. OK North – Coalition of Nordic openness organizations for joint advocacy. OpenMag – Community-curated open knowledge reads.
In the radar Mapping of the North and Western European non-governmental heritage sector. Digikompassi lausuntokierroksella. Code from Finland Association is kickstarting a Data Sovereignty Coalition
Picks from the feeds
Image: Sauna interior. Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Korpilahti IX 1928, Public domain.
Highlight Welcome to OKFI Winter Festival 2 December 2025! Open Knowledge Finland Autumn General Meeting. AvoinGLAM Annual meeting. Power week of open, culture, knowledge, and science in Helsinki 1 Dec Music Archives 35 years. 1–4 Dec Minna Tarkka Lectures. 2–4 Dec Open Science and Research Winter Conference 2025. 2 Dec Kaupungit kulttuurisen kestävyyden vetureina (Cities as Drivers of Cultural Sustainability). 4 Dec HELDIG Digital Humanities Summit 2025
ICYMI AvoinGLAM at GLAM Wiki
Collaborations ECHOES Second Call: Engagement and Collaboration
Reads & Views Oulu Löyly Survey results by AvoinGLAM. CommonsDB Explorer goes live at GLAM Wiki by Open Future. Outline for a European Books Data Commons by Paul Keller. Sovereignty-as-a-service by Rafael Grohmann and Alexandre Costa Barbosa
Highlight Introducing Oulu Löyly! Consultation on ‘A European Data Union Strategy’. OKFI Winter Festival – Save the date! Survey on AI Adoption and Privacy. Archival Tendencies – Visit to Aalto University Archives
In case you missed it Culture, media, and democracy under a joint program in the EU. Our Future Memory. Denmark combats deepfakes and protects individuals’ copyright to their digital identities. EU Seeks 60 Independent Experts for AI Scientific Panel
Coming up 4 September TAROCH at the Digime2025 seminar. 24-26 September 2025 MyData Conference.
Reads & Views Beyond AI and Copyright by Paul Keller. Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons: Five Open Questions and Knowledge Gaps. AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor by Mariana Mazzucato and Fausto Gernone. Reimagine ADM – Reimagining public values in algorithmic futures by Minna Ruckenstein, Julia Velkova, Ajda Pretnar Žagar, Tuukka Lehtiniemi, Dorthe Kristensen, Pekka Tuominen, David Moats, Elisa Elhadj, and Perle Møhl. The Machines Are Not All Right by Padmini Ray Murray. Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy by Eugenio V. Garcia. The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI by Josh Axelrod. Future Knowledge. Podcast from the Internet Archive & Authors Alliance.
Image: Sun-Wind, Juho Mäkelä, 1930, Public domain.
OKFI Summer Party x Visualizing Knowledge 5 June! 🌼 Spring General meeting. Panel discussion on Creative advocacy & pecha kucha w/ VK25.
Notices: Kerro näkemyksesi EU:n demokratian kehittämisestä. Creative Commons community consultation. Next CC Certificate training starts in June.
Coming up Presenting Oulu Löyly at Europeana 2025. Online Event on Public AI. Datasta tutkimukseen – Miten hyödyntää Finnan, Kansallisarkiston ja Kansalliskirjaston aineistoja? Digitaalisen kulttuuriperinnön viitearkkitehtuurin julkinen kommentointi. Avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen kesäpäivät. Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 2025 (#DHH25). Digital Economic Security Seminar
Reads & Views Kuvia maailmalle ja Wikipediaan! Tekoäly ja sukupuolten tasa-arvo. Datajuridiikka : paremmat pelisäännöt datataloudelle. Co-Creating Futures – A Guide to Speculative Science Communication. How the European Union Fell Out of Love with Open-Source Software. Unfair licensing practices: the library experience
Save the date OKFI Summer Party × Visualizing Knowledge 2025
Highlight: Avoin tieto hyvinvointialueilla -raportti julkaistu, Learn Open Data Editor at the School of Data
Notices Creative Commons Finland April guest Jocelyn Miyara, Help shape the Cultural Heritage Cloud, First ECHOES Cascading Grants call is open
In case you missed it Join the TAROCH Coalition to support Public Domain culture! Transformations Digital Art in Amsterdam, Open Future presents CommonsDB, EU Open Data Days
Coming up 10.4. Viisi näkökulmaa eettiseen digitalisaatioon järjestöille: tietosuoja ja regulaatio, 23.–25.4. ITK-konferenssi 2025, 5.5. Kestävän kehityksen kulttuuritavoite – kohti Mondiacult 2025 -konferenssia, 14.5. Avoimen hallinnon hyvät käytännöt, 5.6. Visualizing Knowledge 2025
Reads & Views Beyond Numbers: A New Approach to Impact Storytelling by UN Global Pulse, Sitran uusi verkkokurssi tukee tekoälylukutaitoa ja selventää EU-sääntelyä. Kirsi Suomalainen, Sitra, Tekoälysuositukset varhaiskasvatukseen, opetukseen ja koulutukseen on julkaistu, Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriö ja Opetushallitus, Faktabaarin “Läpivalaisu suomalaisesta faktantarkistuksesta”, Faktabaarin huhtikuu, Tekoälysovellus teki livenä faktantarkistusta vaalitentissä, Faktabaari, Datasta pk-yritysten kasvumoottori, Data Spaces Alliance, Game Library by betterverse.be
Image: Spring Evening, Ice Break. Hugo Simberg, 1897. Public Domain. In the 2025 newsletter cover images we are highlighting Finnish Public Domain artworks.
Highlight Open Data Day tulevana maanantaina 3. maaliskuuta klo 16–21, URBAN3
Did you notice? Media Art Archiving at ZKM, Wikidata Data Reuse Days, Call on the European Commission to secure adequate funding for the data space, RightsCon, AI Action Summit, Kulttuuripoliittisen selonteon käsittely eduskunnassa on alkanut.
Coming up Who Owns Free Knowledge? Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon 10th-anniversary edition
Reads & Views Romahtaako sääntöpohjainen kansainvälinen järjestelmä? by Otto Tähkäpää, Rosa-Maria Mäkelä, Jukka Vahti, Veera Heinonen, Sitra; What is Digital Public Infrastructure? by Mila T Samdub; New Policy Brief from ECOCRIN: Strengthening Innovation and Cultural Policy by Pauliina Latvala-Harvilahti & Katriina Siivonen
From the ED Open Knowledge in 2025
Highlight Hyvinvointialueiden avoimuus, Creative Commons Finland makes a fresh start
Did you notice? The Open Data Maturity report 2024 is out, European Public Domain Day in Brussels, Who’s in the Public Domain?, NORDIS Digital Information Literacy Forum & AI Guide for Teachers / Tekoälyopas opettajille
Coming up Tekoälykahvit 29.1.2025, Lausuntopyyntö: Tekoäly varhaiskasvatuksessa ja koulutuksessa – lainsäädäntö ja suositukset 7.2. mennessä, Horisontti Euroopan klusteri 2:n webinaari 25.2.2025, Mitä demokratia maksaa hyvinvointialueilla? –selvityksen julkistustilaisuus 27.2.2025, Save the Date: Open Data Day 1–7 March, 2025, Ilmoittaudu AVOTT-asiantuntijaryhmiin ja -työryhmiin kevätkaudelle 2025
Reads & Views Creative Commons Licenses and Generative Artificial Intelligence by Deborah de Angelis, Publicly Governed Infrastructure is the Key to Sustainable Social Media by Paul Keller, Reimagining data for Open Source AI: A call to action by Alek Tarkowski, Tietosuoja KAM-sektorilla -suositusta päivitetty, “Informaatiohäiriöiden IPCC-raportti” on julkaistu, UNESCO Consultation paper on AI regulation, Even the digital world needs rules, Petri Myllymäki in interview, Tekoäly, tekijänoikeus ja tutkimus by Johanna Lilja
Highlight – OKFI Winter Festival 2 December 2024 AI 💖 regulation – panel discussion, Welcome Marja Pirttivaara as the new Chair of the Board, Best Open Knowledge Thesis Award to Annastiina Ahola, Creative Commons Reboot, Greetings from Creative Commons, TAROCH–Towards A Recommendation on Open Cultural Heritage
Did you notice? Congratulations Open Science and Research Awardees!, New page for Finnish Committee for Research Data on OKFI website, New UNESCO Living Heritage elements added to Wikidata, Europeana Heritage Horizons – Projects week
Coming up Kyber- ja informaatiovaikuttaminen – digitaalisen yhteiskunnan massahorjutustyökalut, Echoes High-Level Policy Event, Public Domain Day in Europe, Workshop on New Media Art Archiving at ZKM
Reads & Views Good enough is perfect – A Wikimedia playbook for collective deliberation, Report: Open Movement’s Common(s) Causes, Open Up Museums! Prospects and Challenges of Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion, Government resilience in the digital age, Kulttuuriperintö on turvattava kaikissa olosuhteissa, Konkreettinen malli kulttuuri- ja innovaatiopolitiikan lähentämiseen, Demonopolizing the European Public Domain, Research performing organisations in Finland committed to open science
Highlight OKFI Winter Festival 2 December 2024!, AvoinGLAM joins the TAROCH Coalition, OKFI in 2025. Highlighting the Advocacy Network
News & Notices Referral on the Draft Government proposal for legislation on the implementation of the AI Act
Did you notice? European Heritage Hub Forum, Media Art Expert Meeting in Amsterdam, Sustainable Data Commons, The Tech We Want, Open Access Week, Global Digital Compact, And more…
Coming up Finto 10th anniversary seminar, Avoimen tieteen iltapäivä 2024, Rajapinta Days, Knowledge Graph Meetup Finland, Heritage Horizons: Europeana Project Week, Open Science and Research Winter Conference
Reads & Views
Highlight Join planning for 2025 with us!, Ranjit Menon on collaborative archival spaces, Subscribe to the OKFI calendar of events!
Did you notice? Open Knowledge Network Meeting, Wikimedia and Generative AI, Common(s) Cause
News & Notices Regnbågsskrivstuga Åbo torsdagen den 20 augusti! 👈, Mapping the Digital Commons Policy Landscape: Fill out the survey!, MyData Awards Open for Nominations!, Brainstorm with Green Maps
Coming up The Tech We Want Online Summit
Reads & Views ReDime: A Roadmap Towards Resource-wise Digital Media
Highlight Welcome new Board members, Welcome Andrew Paterson as project staff
Did you notice? Ad-hoc meeting with Audrey Tang, Fireside chat with Ora Lassila @ Knowledge Graph Finland, Finnish Open Education Awards presented, MyData Award
Coming up OpenRefine Barcamp in Berlin, Common(s) Cause at Wikimania, Wikimania 2024
More events & Deadlines
Reads & Views
HIghlight Spring General Meeting
Did you notice? AI Sauna, Knowledge Rights 21 Programme (KR21), , Creative Commons welcomes nominations to the CC Board of Directors,
Coming up Open Gov Week, Open Science and Research Summer Conference 2024, Inaugural Webinar of OPEN GOES COP, AvoinGLAM Summer Retreat, Conference: Text and Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence, Hollowing out of the Public Domain, Alignment Assembly Report Launch
Coming up AI Sauna, Finnish Open Knowledge Network
Did you notice? European AI Act, Data Spaces Alliance Finland, Global Digital Compact zero draft, Anna Tumadóttir appointed as CEO of Creative Commons, Creative Commons joins the Digital Public Goods Alliance, WIPO publishes a guide on GenAI & copyright, The RightsCon 2025 Call for Proposals is now open!, European Research Council Advanced Grants to Finnish scholars, New policy paper on access to publicly funded research, OGP Horizons