🌍 From power and participation to AI and digital rights, #TheTechPeopleWant Summit brought hundreds of participants into vibrant discussions.

Now, the full documentation is online — revisit the talks, the insights, and more!

https://blog.okfn.org/2025/07/17/relive-the-tech-people-want-summit-2025-documentation/

Relive The Tech People Want Summit: 2025 Documentation - Open Knowledge Blog

People want technology for people. Last week, the Open Knowledge Foundation hosted The Tech People Want Summit, bringing together 34 speakers from 19 countries to rethink how technology supports our work in conversational sessions. This wasn’t a summit about coding, but focused on non-technical professionals – including data practitioners, communicators, project managers, and advocates. Once

Open Knowledge Blog - Content for a fair, sustainable and open future

🌱 In this roundtable at the #TheTechPeopleWant Summit, the authors launched Towards a Sustainable Data Commons Ecosystem — a report that imagines a future where justice is driven by collective care, shared resources, and solidarity, not just data.

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💡 Missed the #TheTechPeopleWant Summit — or want to revisit a powerful quote or keynote?

34 speakers from 19 countries came together to rethink how tech supports our work — in open, conversational sessions.

Full documentation is now live 👇🏽
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🌐 What if mass data extraction wasn’t inevitable?

At #TheTechPeopleWant Summit, Jaya Klara Brekke (Nym) explored how decentralised infrastructure decentralised infrastructures can redefine digital power structures.

🎥 Watch: https://buff.ly/QiNqRDH

Great two days, #TheTechPeopleWant summit from @okfn with a lot of interesting speakers/talks, for me the highlight was the final keynote about #nym network, #privacy, mixnets, zero-knowledge systems w/ Jaya – CSO of Nym & @Xeniax - Senior Researcher, Center for Internet and Society (CIS/CNRS) 👍

💻🌱 Day 2 of the #TheTechPeopleWant Summit starts in just 2 hours!

Hear from non-technical professionals on how everyday tech should work for people who understand tech, but shouldn’t have to hack their way through it.

👉🏽 Last chance to register: https://buff.ly/mR8KWUQ

✨ Thank you all for such an insightful, critical and friendly first day of #TheTechPeopleWant summit! We had a full room all day and very active conversations in the chat – it really fills us with hope.

🔜 Join us tomorrow for Day Two: https://buff.ly/mR8KWUQ

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Join us for #TheTechPeoplewant summit by @okfn

It’s about the tools we use daily and how they should function for people who understand tech but shouldn’t have to hack their way through it.

⏰ We'll start at 10:30

https://okfn.org/en/events/the-tech-people-want-online-summit/

🌐 Mañana participamos en #TheTechPeopleWant Online Summit organizado por @okfn - una jornada de conversaciones sobre cómo poner la tecnología al servicio de la mayoría.

🎙️ Nuestra Simona Levi @X_net formará parte del panel Tech for Society.

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💻🌱 #TheTechPeopleWant Summit is about to begin — and there’s still time to join!

We’re bringing together non-technical professionals to rethink how technology supports our work in dynamic, conversational sessions.

👉🏽 Last chance to register: https://buff.ly/mR8KWUQ