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Nadace OSF vznikla v roce 1992 a dvacet let byla financována mezinárodní sítí Open Society Foundations, kterou založil americký byznysmen a filantrop George Soros. Po celém světě ale existují země, které potřebují podporu více než my. Proto od roku 2012, kdy jsme se stali zcela nezávislou nadací, sháníme prostředky na fungování sami. Spolu s partnery a dárci, firmami i jednotlivci, zůstáváme hybatelem pozitivních změn a propagátorem otevřené společnosti v České republice.1
Inclusive education in Canada is a reality
When Harland Sanders began selling fried chicken, he was no different from anyone else. What turned his efforts into the famous KFC restaurant was a few small details, among them the secret ingredients of his spice mix. What is the…
Czech Republic: Eight years after the D.H. judgement a comprehensive desegregation of schools must take place
Eight years ago today, the Czech Republic was condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for discriminating against Roma children in its education system in the landmark D.H. judgment. Piecemeal measures post 2007 failed to eliminate discrimination and in…
Open Heroines — Because We’re Worth It!
The blog was originally published at www.openheroines.org. It’s been three and a half years since a group of amazing women decided to create Open Heroines — a platform for every woman working in the #OpenData, #OpenGov, and #CivicTech communities. And it’s been…
(English) Democracy can die fast – interview with Marta Lempart
"The thing about change is that it can happen very quickly. You can wake up one day and the democracy as you knew it had died yesterday," says a Polish women´s right activist Marta Lempart. Marta is a women’s rights…
(English) Thoughts on Disinformation
The phenomenon of disinformation is to a certain degree linked to the fact that we are living in an era where we no longer “consume” the media the same way we used to. At the same time, even the most…
(English) Karin Marques: A visit to the Romani children in the Slovak schools
Karin Marques, a specialist in inclusive education with the Open Society Fund Prague, has published on the website of the foundation her impressions from a study trip to Slovakia organized by the League of Community Schools (Liga komunitních škol), which…
(English) Commentary: Czech tabloid continues its anti-inclusion campaign
At a time when we are facing so-called "alternative facts" (or untruths) more and more frequently in the public discourse, correcting the record appears to become more and more of a Sisyphean task. Long before the term "alternative facts" was…
(English) The Year 2015 in Numbers
We are proud to present the activities of the Open Society Fund in numbers for the year 2015. Below you can see how many projects we have supported in the last year and what the total grants amounted to. The…
(English) Council of Europe demands proof of changed practice in the Czech schools when it comes to Roma discrimination
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, which supervises the fulfillment of the judgments handed down by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, discussed the case of "D.H. and Others versus the Czech Republic" at its…
(English) Ministerial Open Data Application Wins Czech Open Data Challenge
A week ago, the winners of the third annual Open Data Challenge “Together We Open Data” were announced with very encouraging results. This year the competition received 27 submitted applications based on open data, which used data from a variety…