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Originally published at the #semanticClimate blog ↗ Chatbots serve as a useful tool for knowledge, answering questions within seconds. However, when the topic is about something as significant as climate change, accuracy and reliability matters as much as speed.

This is the twentieth conversation of the 100+ Conversations to Inspire Our New Direction (#OKFN100) project. To guide our coming years, we are meeting with over 100 people to discuss the future of open knowledge, shaped by a diverse set of visions from artists, activists, academics, archivists, thinkers, policymakers, data scientists, educators, and community leaders from around the world. How can openness accelerate and strengthen struggles against the complex challenges of our time?

Hello Open Knowledge community, The future of our knowledge is at stake. Designing a public digital architecture to shift its accelerated enclosure course is our top priority at Open Knowledge Foundation. This month, we are turning that vision into tangible, cross-border collaboration, expanding our traceable AI pilots from Brazil to Uruguay, and diving deep into the delicate work of digitising at-risk physical archives alongside partners in Guatemala.

In an age of AI, what should someone digitising a physical archive consider before they begin? This question was at the heart of an online roundtable Open Knowledge hosted last week as part of our AI Learning Labs partnership with AVANCSO – the Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences in Guatemala – whose documentation centre is at risk. The full recording is available with automatically generated subtitles above.

We would like to invite the open knowledge communities to join our upcoming webinar organised in collaboration with the UN Regional Hub for Big Data in Brazil and ECLAC Knowledge Transfer Network. The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) team will present an experimental solution that connects a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with the open data catalogs of Brazil and Uruguay.

A few weeks ago we announced our collaboration with Brazil’s Office of the Comptroller General and Uruguay’s Agency for Electronic Government and the Information and Knowledge Society to prototype a Model Context Protocol (MCP) bridge between LLMs and open data portals. The goal is simple: let citizens ask natural‑language questions and get answers that are traceable back to official datasets.

Today, we are proudly announcing a new collaboration with the Agency for Electronic Government and the Information and Knowledge Society (AGESIC), a body under the Office of the President of the Republic of Uruguay, to make public data more accessible, reliable, and usable in the age of AI.

Hello Open Knowledge community, The first results from our AI Learning Labs begin to take shape. From a fruitful roundtable on climate and responsible chatbots to a fresh partnership with the Government of Brazil, our community is tackling AI’s complexities while building tools that prioritise transparency, trust, and verifiability. This month, we are also reflecting on a missed opportunity: the neurotech booth we had planned for RightsCon.

We at the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) are thrilled to announce today that the Call for Proposals of the inaugural “Open Technology Research (OTR) Symposium 2026 – Shaping the Open Transition” is now open until 5 July 2026. The Symposium is the flagship initiative of our new Open Technology Research initiative, together with our partners the Open Source Initiative (OSI), OpenForum Europe (OFE), and the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (D//F).

How do young people learn about climate change? Chances are they ask a major chatbot, like ChatGPT. The big question is—in a world where climate misinformation is easier to come by than climate justice—what will they learn??? In one of our very first AI Learning Labs projects, we are teaming up with The Climate Academy and #semanticClimate to explore how to design a chatbot for accurate information about the climate that draws on reliable science and systemic social analysis.