Events
February 26, 2026
Webinar on Digital Public Infrastructure: Promises and the Missing Public Role
Online discussion featuring our research fellow, Mila T Sambud, who examines digital public infrastructures in India, Brazil, and the EU, analyzing seven key promises and revealing a critical gap.
January 13, 2026
Public AI and Europe’s Digital Sovereignty
We held an event at the MEP Salon in Brussels to discuss how Europe can build public AI systems that ensure competition, sovereignty, and innovation.
November 20, 2025
Digital Commons Policy Summit 2025
The Digital Commons Policy Summit 2025 brought together policymakers and open-source communities to discuss scaling Digital Commons in Europe.
October 14, 2025
Sustaining original content in the age of generative AI
Policymakers, academics, and representatives from journalism, culture, and civil society discuss how Europe can sustain original content in the age of generative AI.
September 16, 2025
Webinar: How data centre expansion risks derailing climate goals
ECOS hosted a webinar to present our joint report: "How data centre expansion risks derailing climate goals and how to fix it" and explore solutions to digital overconsumption.
July 14, 2025
Exploring Common Governance for Open Knowledge Infrastructures and Outputs
Online discussion featuring two of our research fellows who examine knowledge governance and commons-based approaches within scholarly communities.
May 20, 2025
Online Event on Public AI
Open Future and Bertelsmann Stiftung hosted an online event that brought together policymakers, industry representatives, and civil society to explore how Public AI can create more accessible and accountable technology.
March 5, 2025
“Public Policies for Digital Commons” Webinar: European Tech Infrastructure and Open Source Investment
NGI Commons' recent webinar brought together experts to explore digital commons policies, sovereign tech funding, and the future of open source in Europe.
January 9, 2025
Public Domain Day 2025: CommonsDB sneak preview
Every year in January, Open Knowledge and Open Culture communities celebrate the moment when heritage works enter the Public Domain, as their copyright terms expire. Open Future participated in this year’s celebration of Public Domain Day 2025, which took place on January 9 at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR). Professor Séverine Dusollier (University Professor […]
November 20, 2024
From Code to Conduct: Insights from a Mozilla Morning
The Mozilla Foundation and Open Future co-hosted an event with policymakers, industry representatives, and civil society to explore how to make content used by AI more transparent.
September 19, 2024
Knowledge Sharing Advocacy Workshop
Through a series of workshops, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, Open Future, and SPARC Open aim to explore how emerging challenges are affecting knowledge sharing and how advocates can collaborate to identify and strengthen areas of shared interest within their advocacy agendas.
