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Highlight – OKFI Winter Festival 2 December 2024 AI ðŸ’– 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
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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