Global Partnership & Collaboration

International Civil Society Week (ICSW) is a week-long series of global civil society events co-hosted by CIVICUS and the Asia Democracy Network (ADN). Through conferences, workshops, trainings, and cultural activities, ICSW provides an open space for civil society organizations, activists, human rights defenders, and allies from around the world to connect, exchange knowledge, and strengthen collective action across regions.

Asia Democracy Assembly 2025 is a regional convening hosted by the Asia Democracy Network (ADN), held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 1 to 3 November 2025 alongside International Civil Society Week. Under the theme "Defending Democracy, Mobilizing Movements and New Frontiers for Citizen Action," the Assembly brought together pro-democracy organizations, civil society actors, and movement leaders from across Asia. It served as a space to address rising authoritarianism, shrinking civic space, and democratic backsliding in the region, while strengthening solidarity, collective strategies, and cross-border cooperation for democratic action.

Global Privacy Assembly 2025 (GPA 2025) was a major annual gathering of data protection and privacy authorities from around the world, held in Seoul, South Korea, from 15 to 19 September 2025. With a focus on artificial intelligence, data governance, and privacy protection, the Assembly brought together regulators, policymakers, industry representatives, academics, and civil society actors to discuss key challenges in the AI era, including personal data protection, cross-border data flows, children's privacy, and digital governance, while strengthening international cooperation and the development of shared privacy standards.

Global Gathering is an annual event organized by Team CommUNITY, bringing together digital rights advocates from around the world. The event is expected to welcome around 1,000 participants. Held entirely outdoors, Global Gathering creates a relaxed atmosphere with a flexible program designed to help digital rights advocates build relationships and share knowledge. In addition, there are also satellite events offering further opportunities for networking and exchange.

The Digital Rights Asia-Pacific Assembly (DRAPAC) is a regional gathering dedicated to advancing digital rights and internet freedom across the Asia-Pacific. Building on the first two editions, DRAPAC25 continues to bring regional partners together to strengthen digital resilience across Asia-Pacific. In response to the growing threat of digital authoritarianism, the assembly focuses on developing human rights-centered models of digital governance and innovative strategies to support human rights defenders working in high-risk environments.

FOSDEM is Europe's largest annual open source gathering. Organized by community volunteers, the two-day event is free to attend and brings together more than 8,000 open source participants. For the first time, OCF joined the program as a speaker, sharing Taiwan's experience in public-private collaboration and introducing OSCVPass. OCF also co-hosted a booth with COSCUP and other Taiwanese open source communities to promote Taiwan's open source events and the development of related organizations.

OONI held a two-day "OONI Partner Meetup" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bringing together 40 partners from Asia and the Middle East to exchange skills and knowledge to improve their tools to better meet the needs of the community and to better master the use of OONI tools and data as part of its research and advocacy work. OCF is OONI's partner in Taiwan, learn more about OONI's programs in Taiwan.

The Internet Engineering Task Force, IETF, is a membership-free, open-to-all conference with the core mission of developing and promoting voluntary Internet standards (Internet Standards, ISDs). It can be understood as the steering committee or conference activities of ISOC (Internet Society). The goal of OCF's participation in this IETF meeting at Brisbane, Australia is to promote that the (digital) rights that citizen groups care about can be taken into consideration when Internet standards and related decisions and policy basis are formed.

FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers Europe Conference) is the largest annual gathering of the open source community in Europe. It is a two-day event co-organized by community volunteers. The entire event is free of registration and open to participation. There are more than 8,000 open source participants. who join. In addition to learning new knowledge from the agenda, OCF also applied for a booth at the conference to promote and introduce Taiwan's open source activities and related organizational developments with Taiwanese open source communities such as COSCUP.

Open Source Summit Japan enables technologists and open source industry leaders in the open source ecosystem to collaborate, share information, learn about the latest open source technologies, and learn how to gain a competitive advantage through the use of innovative open solutions. Open Source Compliance Summit is a conference for Linux Foundation members and participants to discuss open source licensing, security, and export control compliance. OCF has been promoting OpenChain for more than two years. This is the first time that OCF has participated in an international OpenChain-themed conference to share the promotion status in Taiwan, learn about the development of various countries, and explore possible partners for cooperation.

Global Gathering 2023 is the first physical gathering for Digital Rights Defenders organized by Team Community after the epidemic. Team Coummunity is organized for InternetFF and runs the Internet Freedom Festival. OCF has connected with IFF and OTF therefore invited to partipate this event to furthur deepen our relationship with international digital copyright defenders, and introduces OCF’s development in digital human rights and Internet freedom during the epidemic.

Open Government is one of OCF's core initiatives. OCF has been participating in OGP summits for several years, and this time the Open Government Partnership Global Summit was held in Tallinn, Estonia. Estonia is a country with better digital government performance. OCF went to attend this conference to continue to track the trends of the international open government community, obtain foreign best practices, and exchange Taiwanese experience.

RightsCon 2023 is a global digital rights conference, hosted by AccessNow, a global iconic international non-profit organization. The 2023 conference is held in Costa Rica from June 5 to 8. It is held in a hybrid online and offline format with over 600 sessions. There are more than 8,100 participants from 174 countries signed up for physical participation. They exchanged views on various Internet, technology and human rights issues, and conducted multilateral expert discussions on human rights and digital rights issues faced by society and multilateral relations in the digital era.

The 2023 Digital Rights Asia Pacific Assembly (DRAPAC23) was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and included 161 sessions on various formats and themes. This conference was hosted by EngageMedia, in conjunction with Article 19, APC Asia Pacific Regional Office, Philippines Foundation for Media Alternatives, Pakistan’s Media Matter for Democracy and the Open Culture Foundation, through the process of creating a landmark digital rights event in the Asia-Pacific region, and establishing the Asia-Pacific Digital Rights Alliance, empowering citizen organizations and democracy advocates in the Asia-Pacific region.

OCF was invited by The Sejong Institute in South Korea to participate in the Human Rights in Asia Workshop to share the article Digital Authoritarianism and Threats Posed to Human-Rights Advocacy published on the Global Asia platform.

FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers Europe Conference) is the largest annual gathering of the open source community in Europe. It is a two-day event co-organized by community volunteers. The entire event is free of registration and open to participation. There are more than 8,000 open source participants. who join. In addition to learning new knowledge from the agenda, OCF also applied for a booth at the conference to promote and introduce Taiwan's open source activities and related organizational developments with Taiwanese open source communities such as COSCUP.

Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) serves as a platform for discussion, exchange and collaboration at a regional level, and also where possible to aggregate national IGF discussions, ultimately advance the Internet governance development in the Asia Pacific region.

OCF was invited by international partners to join the Taiwan Open Congress delegation to participate in the Copenhagen Democracy Summit. This conference promotes the goals of the global democratization movement by linking members of the global democratic community. Through the participation of political figures, scholars, experts and democratic activists from various countries, it has become an important international forum to strengthen democratic discussion in recent years. The conference organizer, Alliance of Democracies (AoD), is a non-governmental organization established in 2017 by former Danish Prime Minister and former NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

FOSDEM, the largest open source conference in Europe, was hosted over 300 volunteers and sponsored by 15 companies and organizations. OCF sent the representative to FOSDEM first time in 2020.