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Friction in AI Governance: Performing Participation

March 4, 2024 by: Nadia Nadesan
In this article, Nadia takes a closer look at and debunks a few popular participation practices.

“It’s infrastructure, stupid”

February 27, 2024 by: Zuzanna Warso
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

February 26, 2024 by: Jan Krewer
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

February 16, 2024 by: Alicja Peszkowska
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

February 14, 2024 by: Zuzanna Warso
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

February 1, 2024 by: Shannon Y Hong
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

January 30, 2024 by: Alicja Peszkowska
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

January 24, 2024 by: Alicja Peszkowska
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.

A Data Act, but no Data Commons

January 11, 2024 by: Paul Keller
Now that the Data Act has been adopted, it is time to take stock of the outcome of the legislative process and our role in it.

AI and the Commons: the paradox of open (for business)

January 11, 2024 by: Alicja Peszkowska
To discuss the work presented in “Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI," we have invited its authors to join our monthly community calls, which explore the intersection of AI and the Commons.

AI and the Commons: the Wikimedia movement

December 19, 2023 by: Alek Tarkowski
As a part of exploring the relationship between generative AI systems and the commons, we have been looking closely at the approach taken on Wikipedia. 
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