OpenFuture
@OpenFutureEU
Open Future is a think tank that develops new approaches to an open internet that maximize societal benefits of shared data, knowledge and culture.
🚨 Update As of December 11, 2024, Open Future will no longer use X (formerly Twitter) as a communication channel. We’ve enjoyed connecting with you here and will continue addressing the #ParadoxOfOpen while shifting our focus to other platforms.
🏗️ This opinion by Mila Sambud and Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci brings more clarity to the concept of #DigitalPublicInfrastructure (#DPI). “Multiple visions of DPI are circulating today: DPI-as-roads and DPI-as-radio, as well as other variations...” techpolicy.press/what-is-digita…
🤖Learn how small language models built as #DigitalCommons can compete with commercial models and help fight concentrations of power in AI. In our latest report, produced with @centrumcyfrowe, we analyze case studies from Poland #PublicAI 🔗 Read: openfuture.eu/publication/ai…
📚 “Demonopolizing the European Public Domain”, produced with @IlpLab, is our new report focusing on how Google Books exclusivity clauses and the Open Data Directive affect the #PublicDomain and European libraries' collections. Download: openfuture.eu/publication/de…
💌Did you miss the monthly newsletter we published last Friday? Learn more about #PublicAI and #PublicDomain, follow #DigitalCommons discussions, register for upcoming events, and more. Read the issue and sign up for the next one ⬇️ mailchi.mp/openfuture/eur…
Our new report with @centrumcyfrowe analyses how small language models built as Digital Commons can compete with commercial ones and help fight concentrations of power in AI. Two case studies from Poland offer learnings for debates on #publicAI. 🔗 Read: openfuture.eu/publication/ai…
“Demonopolizing the European Public Domain” is a new report produced with @IlpLab. It examines Google Books exclusivity clauses and the Open Data Directive, and how they affect the #PublicDomain and European libraries' collections. 📥Download: openfuture.eu/publication/de…
🚨 We are hiring a Project and Research Coordinator! Check out the details and apply by 24 November 👉 openfuture.eu/project-and-re…
Common(s) Cause is an effort by @creativecommons, @OpenFutureEU, @OKFN and #WikimediaEurope to create a shared advocacy agenda for the Knowledge Commons. A new report outlines opportunities and threats, based on the event we organized at #Wikimania2024: openfuture.eu/publication/op…
Open Future and @mozilla host a session moderated by @Zwarso with Ania Helseth, Maximilian Gahntz, Sabrina Küspert, Abbas Lightwalla and a keynote by MEP Sergey Lagodinsky. 📅 Join us in Brussels on November 20 to shed light on the AI "black box".: eventbrite.com/e/from-code-to…
🧑🏫 @jankrewer will present our latest paper, co-authored with @ZWarso, at the #OFASymposium in Boston. 📅 Today at 15:30 EST time and hosted by @D3Harvard. Some of our @NGICommons partners will also be speaking at the conference. Good luck to all! symposium.openforumeurope.org
🏙️ Our new report, by @jankrewer and @ZWarso, focuses on how #DigitalCommons can support and improve #PublicDigitalInfrastructures. 📄Read or download the paper, contributing to the @NGI Commons Project: openfuture.eu/publication/di…
🤝🌍 Open Future has joined the @DPGAlliance. As a global steward of digital public goods, the DPGA mission is closely aligned with our goals of cultivating Digital Commons and building Digital Public Space. Read the announcement: openfuture.eu/blog/open-futu…
