Events
May 8, 2023
Tension lines in the digital commons: workshop
We hosted a workshop with a small group of the movement’s leaders. It was co-organized by our partners at the Open Knowledge Foundation and Wikimedia Europe. 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.
April 13, 2023
Critical Infrastructure Lab launch: What should the next European Commission do?
At the Critical Infrastructure Lab launch event in Amsterdam, we hosted a workshop on “Imagining the future: what should the next European Commission do”.
March 23, 2023
Mozfest 2023: AI systems as a challenge to concentrations of power
On 23 March, we organised a roundtable titled “Open AI systems: will they challenge the concentrations of power?”, during the Mozilla Festival 2023.
November 30, 2022
Open Future Salon #2. Launch of Paradox of Open: Responses
On 30 November at 17:00 CET (16:00 UTC), online, we hosted an Open Future Salon to launch "Paradox of Open: Responses."
November 18, 2022
AI_Commons roundtable on open licensing and AI datasets
On Friday, 18 November, we organized an in-person AI_Commons roundtable together with Creative Commons.
October 15, 2022
Discussing Democratic Data Governance with RadicalxChange in Poland
RadicalxChange organized gatherings on 15-16 October in Lodz and on 18 October in Warsaw to explore pioneering digital democracy practices. Alek joined both of them, focusing on democratic data governance.
June 24, 2022
AI Infrastructures for Civil Society and the Arts
On Friday 24 June we participated in a Workshop on AI Infrastructures for Civil Society and the Arts organized by the Hardware Medienkunst Verein. Paul's intervention was centered on the possibility of Common Data Spaces that can nurture artistic practices and civil society activism.
June 23, 2022
Open Future Salon #1: Introducing the Public Data Commons. B2G data sharing in the public interest
On 23 June, we organized our first Salon to present our proposal for a data governance framework that ensures broader B2G data sharing in the public interest, and discuss its implementation.
June 21, 2022
Data Act: in-between policy and practice
On 21 June, we organized a panel discussion titled “Data Act: in-between policy and practice”, at the 2022 MyData Summit in Helsinki. The session provided a forum for an exchange of perspectives on the Data Act from public, private and civil society representatives.
May 25, 2022
Is a EU data strategy balancing economic efficiency and fundamental rights possible?
On 25 May at the CPDP Annual conference, we co-organized a panel to discuss what are the potential points of conflict between economic growth from data and fundamental rights values within the European data governance framework.
May 17, 2022
The EU digital strategy: how it started, how it’s going and what is missing
On 17 May 2022, at PublicSpace Conference #2, Open Future hosted a session on the state of affairs of EU digital policy-making halfway through the term of the current European Commission.
