The AI Learning Labs turn real-world experiments into open, replicable methods for responsible AI – so any public‑interest organisation can build AI literacy without reinventing the wheel.

In our new learning initiative, the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) partners with social sector organisations and governments in multiple countries to catalyse learning and develop help them build AI skills, use AI responsibly, and develop their own AI projects.

Each collaboration produces multilingual AI-literacy resources tailored for organisations addressing similar issues elsewhere, all openly available on School of Data.

How to retrieve trustworthy information from government data?

We are prototyping an integration with open data portals that enables users to ask natural-language questions and receive responses traceable directly to the underlying datasets.

Pilot Partners

How to create a responsible climate chatbot?

We are prototyping a responsible and climate-friendly AI chatbot that can answer questions about climate change using pre-approved literature, datasets and conversational guardrails.

Pilot Partners

How to prepare a documentation centre to work strategically with AI?

We are exploring the possibility of using AI to make research more accessible in documents and materials containing 40 years' worth of knowledge from social movements and indigenous communities.

Pilot Partner

Follow our progress, from research notes to community stories:

We welcome contributions from experts and practitioners from anywhere who are interested in learning about and replicating our methods, as well as adapting our resources to their own languages and cultures.

In addition to the channels above, you can also contact us at info@okfn.org.

This project has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF). We are grateful for our ongoing partnership in promoting digital literacy and investing in AI for the public good. 

Learn more about its funding programmes here.