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Stay tuned for new institutional partnerships and activities to reconnect with the past fellows and trainers as we prepare the ground for @SchoolofData to also provide applied #AILiteracy. Learn more in the blog announcement: blog.okfn.org/2025/08/26/sch…

🔵 Check out our latest resource, 'Quality and Consistent Data with #OpenDataEditor' (developed in partnership with @okfnbr and @EscolaDeDados: schoolofdata.org/courses/qualit… 🧵

🥳 What a joy! The new @SchoolOfData platform is now live at schoolofdata.org. This is a major milestone in our community’s exciting reactivation journey! 🧵

🤗 In May, we brought the community together again for a special training session, equipping trainers to deliver the #OpenDataEditor course locally. Their courses are expected to reach an estimated 500 people worldwide in June. 👉🏾 Learn more: blog.okfn.org/2025/06/05/sch…

🏅 The #OpenDataEditor app + course combo is definitely your gateway to the world of data. See everything you'll learn in just 15 hours. Plus it's free and fun! 📚 schoolofdata.org/course-quality… Let's bridge the digital literacy gap together! #ODE #TheTechWeWant

🧐 How open is your data? ★ 5-star Open Data from @timberners_lee is one of the assessment frameworks you'll learn about in the 'Quality and Consistent Data with the #OpenDataEditor' The course is free, online, and fun! 👉🏾 Start today: #course" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">schoolofdata.org/#course #opendata #ODE

⭐️ What you’ll learn ⭐️ ✅ Learning-by-doing • Follow in the footsteps of an exclusive instructor • Get hands-on and learn from your mistakes and successes • Learn how to handle databases without writing code 👉🏾 More: blog.okfn.org/2025/03/25/ann…

⭐️ What you’ll learn ⭐️ ✅ FAIR data principles • Understand how to guarantee the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets • Master all about #metadata • Understand the principles of #opendata 👉🏾 More: blog.okfn.org/2025/03/25/ann… 🧵

⭐️ What you’ll learn ⭐️ ✅ Detecting and fixing errors in tables • Learn to work with #tabulardata • Don’t get lost when validating your spreadsheet • Clean up your spreadsheets to gain valuable insights 👉🏾 More: blog.okfn.org/2025/03/25/ann… 🧵

📣 Enroll now! "Quality and Consistent Data with the #OpenDataEditor" – a free, learn-by-doing online course designed for non-technical users. Developed by @OKFN @okfnbr @EscolaDeDados, it's part of our mission to increase #digitalliteracy. 👉🏾 More: #course" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">schoolofdata.org/#course 🧵

There is power in meeting people in person, says Ghana's @sdopoku from @SchoolOfData. What else do we lose when academic conferences go #virtual? Join the #NewGlobalUni conversation 29 June. Register here: bit.ly/NewGlobalUni

⏳ Have a few minutes to learn about visualising #COVID19 data? Check out our 🆕 online training ➡️ bit.ly/2X82PUC

5 years ago I attended my first international open data conference as a @SchoolOfData fellow. It’s been 5 years of an amazing journey working with open data and getting to know an amazing global community. For many years to come!

Our #CSOD #CSODDR students have started their matriculation process for our basic programme that will run for 12 weeks in the Dominican Republic. #CSODJa

:) @workbenchdata has become a staple when I do workshops on #DataLiteracy and working with data using @SchoolOfData's #DataPipeline. I've gotten great feedback for it from veterans to beginners who've never touched a spreadsheet. Do check it out at workbenchdata.com.

@CromwellWilkes at @SchoolOfData we're rolling out a new training for the legal profession that will allow lawyers to evidence and challenge this kind of AI bias.

Today we launch the CSOD in Jamaica.The CSOD is funded by @Googleorg and is executed by a Network of Regional Partners across the Caribbean through our unique, blended learning model. Principal implementation partners for the #CSOD are @MSBM and @Slashroots. #CSODJa

Revisiting a fantastic article by @paulbradshaw summarising the insights from diplomatic studies and applying them to #ddj → onlinejournalismblog.com/2018/06/05/rel… Very relevant to the VERIFY step of @SchoolOfData 's data pipeline, and gives grounding to what I'm teaching at @IjbaOfficiel