Publications
Your Art + AI
This zine on AI, designed for artists by Nadia Nadesan, aims at explaining the mechanics of generative AI and encouraging critical thinking about the narratives and implications surrounding AI in the arts.
Commons-based Data Set Governance for AI
In this white paper, we propose an approach to sharing data sets for AI training as a public good governed as a commons.
Open Future Annual Report 2023
Open Future Annual Report 2023 covers the second full year of our operations and provides a detailed account of the development and refinement of our organizational strategy.
Finding the path to a more open internet
The report focuses on unpacking the European Union’s policy approach to Internet standardization and proposes alternative strategies conducive to more openness, both at the technical and political levels.
Paradox of Open: Policies for the Digital Commons
As input for the digital policy agenda for the second part of Europe’s Digital Decade, we are offering seven suggestions for policy interventions in support of the Digital Commons.
Shifting terrain: Standards, Protocols, Ecosystems
This report summarizes a round-table discussion called "Standards, Protocols, Ecosystems," which focused on the principles of sovereignty and interoperability, how they interact, and the means through which they can be secured. The discussion was organized in partnership with the critical infrastructure lab.
Tension lines in the digital commons: a report
As a part of our exploration of the open movement, we co-hosted a workshop with a small group of the movement’s leaders. Participants represented a broad range of views that allowed us to identify the strategic tensions within the movement relating to, a.o., its politics, socio-economic constraints, digital rights, and equity.
You can read the full report as a PDF or online.
Digital Public Space Primer
The purpose of this primer is to explain the concept of digital public spaces as a central tenet of European digital policies. It shows why digital public spaces are a necessity for the full realization of digital rights and how the European Union should support digital public spaces by investing in public digital infrastructure.
Digital rights revisited: a rights-based approach to building digital public spaces
This paper takes a close look at digital rights, examining them as a framework playing a role in shaping the dynamics of online ecosystems. It considers the feasibility of a holistic rights-based approach to building genuine digital public spaces.
Defining best practices for opting out of ML training
This Open Future policy brief examines the technical implementation of the EU law provision allowing authors and other rightholders to opt out of having their works used as training data for (generative) machine learning (ML) systems.
Regulatory requirements for the European Public Digital Infrastructure Fund
In the paper, Krzysztof investigates the characteristics of initiatives the Fund should support to create a solid foundation for the operation of the digital public space(s). He also looks into existing funding sources and how they could be used to support public digital infrastructure.
