ongoing projects
OCF helps Taiwan’s open source community deal with tedious administrative tasks, such as opening an independent account, collecting and withdrawing cash, balancing accounts, making reports, issuing receipts, providing consulting service, collecting data, presenting achievements, organizing events, maintaining websites. These seemingly insignificant chores are the foundation of the whole community.
From Taiwan to the whole world, let’s help communities get the data they need to monitor their changing environment. When communities have access to sensors, it’s “civic sense”.
Human rights defenders (HRDs) based in Taiwan have become the targets of digital attacks from malicious actors. This project aims to identify and document the scope and the sources of the digital threats, in order to develop a capacity-building toolkits to assist HRDs effectively mitigate the risks and support their work.
Based on open technology, promote awareness of digital security and privacy among the Taiwan government, businesses, and civil society, guiding them to take corresponding improvement actions, and jointly create a Taiwan where digital usage is genuinely open on the basis of human rights.
Open source community is collaborating without boundaries, sharing Taiwan experience to the world, also bring other countries' impact back to Taiwan. These years, we build a collaborative relationship between international and Taiwan communities actively through visit, interview, participation, and experience sharing.
Taiwan-based open source and open culture contributors have continued to impress global communities with outstanding projects, such as the "Instant Mask Map," in the past few years. In the hope of empowering local communities and enhancing international engagements, the program support local contributor to participate in open culture-related international conferences.
Lots of public policies have open-source technical issues hidden inside. We focus on those issues, check related law and policy, try to find out if there's any problem, or make initializing laws and policies, or advocating corrections.
This is a home for projects that are no longer being worked on or updated. We want to honor all the hard work and dedication that went into these projects and shine a light on the positive impact they had while they were active. Even though the projects have come to an end, they still have much to teach us.
Open Culture Foundation (OCF), as a partner of the OONI community, supports censorship measurement from a local perspective and shares internet censorship findings with the public.
OSCVPass is a quick solution for open-source contributors to attend Taiwan's open-source events：COSCUP, SITCON, MOPCON, g0v summitby, PyCon TW a one-time application form.
The project aims to break the previous situation where there was little interest in updating software localization. This is accomplished through participation in professional translation courses, technical workshops, and exposure to the community. The project has also collaborated with the Digital Development Department on five projects: GOV.UK Notify, GOV.UK Forms, Element (Matrix Client), IRMA, and the Standard for Public Code.
In the digital era, the promotion of human rights and data-based services and products are intimately connected. OCF and our international partners are using knowledge as power, and using international standards to evaluate the standards related to free-speech management and personal information protection used by Taiwanese corporations.