Publications
European Public AI Policy Brief
AI is becoming core European infrastructure. Yet non-European firms increasingly control it, concentrating investment, data, and talent. This creates risks for strategic autonomy, democratic decision-making, and the European social model. This brief proposes Public AI as an alternative.
Fostering Plurality, Integrity and Safety in Digital Public Spaces
Digital public spaces need more than oversight. This policy brief outlines a framework for public investment in infrastructure that prioritizes safety over virality.
Sovereign Data Commons and Public Data Infrastructure
This policy brief identifies the missing infrastructure layer in Europe's data ambitions and proposes a commons-governed public data storage infrastructure as the foundation for durable, public-interest access to shared digital assets.
Public Procurement as a Strategic Lever for Digital Sovereignty
Public bodies are among Europe’s largest buyers of digital technology. This policy brief argues they should use that power to advance digital sovereignty, and explains how.
Cloud infrastructure as a foundation for digital sovereignty
This policy brief analyzes Europe's cloud dependency and proposes structural separation across the cloud stack, transparent pricing requirements, and regulatory safeguards against vendor lock-in to make real, commons-based alternatives viable.
Collective intelligence vs artificial intelligence
This report examines how generative AI is reshaping Wikipedia and explores the tension between collective intelligence and commercial platforms.
Why Digital Public Infrastructures?
This paper examines promises and power dynamics behind digital public infrastructures in India, Brazil, and the EU—and the missing public role.
CommonsDB Feasibility Study: Verified, Decentralized, Trustworthy
This study evaluates CommonsDB's transition from design to deployment, testing the registry's real-world performance with live data from partners.
Divergent Mechanisms Elusive Vocabularies
This policy brief examines how AI opt-out vocabularies evolved in 2025 and proposes design principles for a shared semantic layer that balances control with user rights.
Impulse paper: Publishing cultural heritage data in the age of AI
This paper proposes a framework to help cultural heritage institutions decide when and how to share collection data for AI training, balancing open access with managing large-scale AI reuse aligned with their public mandate.
Outline for a European Books Data Commons
This proposal outlines a European Books Data Commons—library-governed infrastructure providing centralized access to digitized books for AI training while strengthening digital sovereignty.
