OpenUK’s weekly blogpost is shared on Thursdays, and is being revamped for 2025. We are interested in sharing your insights on open technology – openness in software, hardware, data, standards and of course AI in the OpenUK blogpost.
We will promote accepted posts across social media and in our newsletter too.
Who can submit
OpenUK will promote articles from its community which spans the UK and globe – that’s an informal collective of people interested in open technology and does not require any formal membership etc to participate.
Blogpost objectives:
- To educate those learning about or interested in open technology.
- To update our colleagues on industry news, key events and share our technologies, activities and views.
- Further the collective knowledge on open tech in the UK and globally.
Areas and topics to be covered:
Our audience is broad and we are keen to cover topical conversations across these areas:
- Technical conversations – on relevant key and cutting edge topics
- Business of open technology – from business models to opportunities to collaborate
- Policy – OpenUK is the second organisation set up to work in policy in openness and we bring together great expertise which we can share through blogposts
- Projects – what’s happening in your world.
- Research – sharing outputs of research or areas where we know research is required
- Skills development from building basic understanding of open tech to understanding the landscape and building specific skills
We know that this is broad ranging but our audience wants to hear about these and other topics, from your personal and relatable experiences and research. If you are able to give these a UK hook, that’s great but not essential.
We seek to provide the global ecosystem with our experiences from the UK in working in the UK and globally in open tech. These resources will share information to support new entrants and to allow established players to better understand the world of open tech.
Posts should be:
- Minimum of 600 words, and ideally circa 800 not more than 1000
- Written in the first person
- Include a title
- Include a 10 word synopsis
- Include a landscape format image, size 5MB maximum (submitted by email)
Please note:
- Submission does not guarantee publication.
- Publication subject to edit and editor’s decision is final.
- Participation is subject to our Code of Respect and Competition Policy.
How to Submit
Pre-validation of topic
If you would like to validate the topic of your proposal in advance please email to mailto:admin@openuk.uk with the subject Blogpost query. This is not however a requirement of submission.
Submission
- You will need to provide the following:
- Post itself
- Topic
- Title – come up with something catchy if you can. Our editors will help.
- Synopsis – no more than 10 words to be used as the basis of our description
- Any key words we should use to tag post – industry terms related to the content
- Image to accompany your submission
- Your Name – first and last name required
- Your Title – one title only
- Your organisational Affiliation – one entity only
- Bio – no more than 100 words
- Any links or social you wish to reference
Please send a landscape image no larger than 5MB to mailto:admin@openuk.uk, include the title of your blog in the subject line.
If you have any questions about suitability of content, timing or publication please contact us by email at mailto:admin@openuk.uk and please use the subject Blogpost query
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
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