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Signs of progress: Digital Public Infrastructure is gaining traction
Against the backdrop of private and public actors endorsing the concept of digital public infrastructure discourse, we clarify our approach and the role of “public” in our Public Digital Infrastructure work.
AI Act fails to set meaningful dataset transparency standards for open source AI
There is an urgent need to address the issue and set a clear standard for transparency with regard to AI training and access to training datasets. The European policymakers avoided answering the questions that could help ensure openness in the context of AI development.
AI and the Commons: Open Data Commons Licences and the issues of data governance
The post summarizes the AI and the Commons Community call focused on a recent paper by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Yaniv Benhamou.
Friction in AI Governance: Performing Participation
In this article, Nadia takes a closer look at and debunks a few popular participation practices.
“It’s infrastructure, stupid”
The Microsoft-Mistral partnership proves that without infrastructure independence, Europe’s digital sovereignty will remain just a pipe dream.
Raising the Bar for Germany’s Tech Diplomacy
Germany's new international strategy supports open internet foundations and global digital infrastructure but still lacks ambition and clear commitments for a society-centered digital transformation.
AI and the Commons: building AI datasets for the future
At our first 2024 AI and the Commons Community Call, we were joined by Eryk Salvaggio, an interdisciplinary researcher, lecturer, and artist who works with digital media and AI.
Insights from The Case for a Big EU OSS Fund Panel
Open Future participated in the EU Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels, where we contributed to the panel about the necessity of investing in open source and public digital infrastructure.
Alignment Assembly on AI and the Commons
Open Future is hosting an asynchronous, virtual alignment assembly for the open movement to explore principles and considerations for regulating generative AI. We hope to reach 500 participants, spread across different fields of open and coming from different regions of the world.
Meet Jan Krewer, our new Senior Policy Analyst
We are pleased to announce that Jan Krewer has joined Open Future as a Senior Policy Analyst. Jan will strengthen our work on Digital Commons and lead our activities related to the European Union-funded Next Generation Internet (NGI) Commons project.
Open Future Joins NGI Commons
Open Future’s role in the project is to develop a strategic agenda for Digital Commons policies, especially in the context of the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) — the EU's long-term budget.
