#digitalpublicspace — Public Fediverse posts

The EU's next Multiannual Financial Framework needs a fresh perspective. As geopolitical and economic challenges mount, we can't afford "business as usual."

In her latest piece for @Tagesspiegel Background, Zuzanna Warso argues that member states should prioritize public infrastructure maintenance and take a more realistic approach to innovation funding.

Click here for the freely available viewpoint (in German): https://background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisierung-und-ki/briefing/die-eu-muss-ihre-oeffentlichen-investitionen-ueberdenken

#EuropeanUnion #PublicPolicy #DigitalPublicSpace

In light of the European Parliament elections, we are resurfacing seven policy suggestions for the #DigitalCommons that we hope the new EU Commission will focus on after the summer. These initiatives could help create a true #DigitalPublicSpace: 🏛https://paradox.openfuture.eu/policies/ 🧵1/2

Ahead of the European Parliament elections, we are resurfacing seven policy suggestions for the #DigitalCommons that we hope the new EU Commission will focus on after the summer. These initiatives could help create a true #DigitalPublicSpace: 🏛https://paradox.openfuture.eu/policies/ 🧵1/2

Ahead of the European Parliament elections, we are resurfacing seven policy suggestions for the #DigitalCommons that we hope the new EU Commission will focus on after the summer. These initiatives could help create a true #DigitalPublicSpace: 🏛https://paradox.openfuture.eu/policies/ 🧵1/2

Ahead of the European Parliament elections, we are resurfacing seven policy suggestions for the #DigitalCommons that we hope the new EU Commission will focus on after the summer. These initiatives could help create a true #DigitalPublicSpace: 🏛https://paradox.openfuture.eu/policies/ 🧵1/2

Ahead of the European Parliament elections, we are resurfacing seven policy suggestions for the #DigitalCommons that we hope the new EU Commission will focus on after the summer. These initiatives could help create a true #DigitalPublicSpace: 🏛https://paradox.openfuture.eu/policies/ 🧵1/2

"In the run-up to the European elections in the summer of 2024, we offer seven proposals for policy interventions in support of the #DigitalCommons. Building on the foundations laid by the regulation of commercial platforms over the past five years, the policies presented below aim to strengthen different forms of Digital Commons as building blocks of the European #DigitalPublicSpace."

https://paradox.openfuture.eu/policies/

Ahead of the European Parliament elections, we are resurfacing seven policy suggestions for the #DigitalCommons that we hope the new EU Commission will focus on after the summer. These initiatives could help create a true #DigitalPublicSpace: 🏛https://paradox.openfuture.eu/policies/ 🧵1/2

Ahead of the European Parliament elections, we are resurfacing seven policy suggestions for the #DigitalCommons that we hope the new EU Commission will focus on after the summer. These initiatives could help create a true #DigitalPublicSpace: 🏛https://paradox.openfuture.eu/policies/ 🧵1/2

With a growing number of private and public actors endorsing the concept of digital public infrastructure, @jankrewer clarifies our approach and the role of “public” in our Public Digital Infrastructure work 👉https://openfuture.eu/blog/signs-of-progress-digital-public-infrastructure-is-gaining-traction/ #DigitalPublicSpace #DigitalCommons

“Amazon tracks the phrases we highlight, the words we look up, who else is reading from the same address. All this allows it to deduce the most intimate information about our lives…Public libraries have some of this same information and guard it fiercely, but Amazon feeds it into an insatiable machine designed to extract maximum profit.”

Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow @pluralistic in their 2022 book
#ChokepointCapitalism, via #DigitalPublicSpace primer by @openfuture https://openfuture.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/231024DPS_primer.pdf

You can still sign up for this Friday's roundtable discussion about reconciling Europe's agenda on #DigitalSovereignty and its approach to #OpenInternet standards. Mallory Knodel will be there as well👉 https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/governments-and-open-internet/?ref=internet-exchange-newsletter #DigitalPublicSpace

Earlier this month, Open Future participated in the EU Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels, where we contributed to the panel on the need to invest in #OpenSource and public digital infrastructure #EU #DigitalPublicSpace: https://openfuture.eu/blog/insights-from-the-case-for-a-big-eu-oss-fund-panel/ CC @OpenForumEurope @NGICommons

This new report by our 2023 Fellow, Clément Perarnaud, unpacks the EU’s #policy approach to internet standardization & proposes alternative strategies conducive to more openness at the technical and political levels 🔎 https://openfuture.eu/publication/finding-the-path-to-a-more-open-internet/ #OpenInternet #DigitalPublicSpace

As input for the #digitalpolicy agenda for the 2nd part of Europe’s Digital Decade, we share seven suggestions for policy interventions in support of the #DigitalCommons. These policies create an opportunity for an internet governed not as a marketplace but as a #DigitalPublicSpace 🏛https://paradox.openfuture.eu/policies/ 🧵1/8

What is possible in the EU? 🇪🇺Check out our guest appearance in the New_ Public's latest newsletter, where we present policy ideas for a better internet: https://newpublic.substack.com/p/beyond-regulation-building-europes #DigitalPublicSpace #DigitalCommons #PublicDigitalInfrastructure

💭 Our November Newsletter is now out!
✦ Read the report on strategic tensions in the open movement #DigitalCommons
✦ Follow our work on Public Digital Infrastructure #DigitalPublicSpace
… these and more news available here 💌 https://mailchi.mp/openfuture/tensions-in-the-open-movement

we've released in recent weeks a series of publications on #digitalpublicspace - the final one is a primer that covers all the basic. this our 2nd publication of this type, following one on #datacommons. we hope it will help with designing relevant policies.
https://openfuture.eu/publication/digital-public-space-primer/

Our October newsletter is out, with updates on our #AIcommons and #digitalpublicspace work. I'm especially proud of several publications that expand our policy ideas on Digital Public Space - check them out here: https://mailchi.mp/openfuture/digital_public_space_explained

Our October Newsletter is now out 💌
✦ Learn more about our thinking behind #DigitalPublicSpace 🏛,
✦ how #AI could work for Creators and the commons #DigitalCommons,
✦ and the position #WeAreHiring for
… these & more news 👇 https://mailchi.mp/openfuture/digital_public_space_explained

In our new #DigitalPublicSpace Primer, @paulk and Zuzanna Warso define and explain the need for digital public spaces and why funding the infrastructure that supports them is the way to secure #DigitalRights #DemocraticInfrastructure https://openfuture.eu/publication/digital-public-space-primer/ 🧶1/6

#WeAreHiring 📣We are looking for a full-time policy analyst to contribute to our policymaking and advocacy work, focusing on #DigitalPublicSpace. Knowledge of European digital policies and experience in their analysis are necessary. Read more and apply by 6 November https://openfuture.eu/work-with-us-policy-analyst/

Another important contribution to our work on building #digitalpublicspace: In this new white paper @ZWarso outlines why digital public spaces are a necessary condition for the realization of digital rights.

“We should revisit the concept of “digital rights,” investigate its shortcomings, and reconceptualize it to make better use of it.” – in our new White Paper, Zuzanna Warso examines a rights-based approach to building digital public spaces 🔎 https://openfuture.eu/publication/digital-rights-revisited/ #DigitalRights #DigitalPublicSpace 🧵 1/6

Public funding must contribute to developing #DigitalPublicSpace(s). Krzysztof Siewicz’s paper demonstrates that existing funding schemes offer a good starting point for a European Public Digital Infrastructure Fund🔎 https://openfuture.eu/publication/regulatory-requirements-for-establishing-the-european-public-digital-infrastructure-fund/ 🧶1/4

"The way #OpenAI introduces its models into the public sphere stands in stark contrast to the very norms of openness, transparency, and equality on which democratic elections are based"- @paulk on Sam Altman's concerns about upcoming #elections #DigitalPublicSpace #AI 👉 https://blog.voyantes.net/machines-vs-elections/

“#Twitter's demise and #Threads' launch open a window of opportunity for building digital public spaces,” – writes @paulk in his latest opinion on the need for public institutions to invest in public digital infrastructures #DigitalPublicSpace 🏦 https://openfuture.eu/blog/the-launch-of-threads-is-an-opportunity-for-public-institutions-to-embrace-the-fediverse/

📍 Today and tomorrow, we are co-hosting the Public Spaces Conference in Amsterdam. The event sets out to answer the question: “How do we build an internet that works for everyone? An online space that prioritizes our health, freedom, and livelihoods and is free from the control of Big Tech?”.

Check out the conference's entire program here 👉 https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/date/2023-06-27

#pubconf2023
#DigitalPublicSpace #DigitalCommons

📎 In “Paradox of Open Redux,” @tarkowski & @paulk sketch out trajectories for addressing power imbalances present in the open ecosystems and devise open means of value creation in more detail: https://openfuture.eu/blog/paradox-of-open-redux/ #DigitalPublicSpace #DigitalCommons

🔎 As we carry on with our investigation into the status of #OpenMovement, we are sharing two more responses to our funding "Paradox of Open" essay along with our reflection on how to move forward — "Paradox of Open: Redux": https://openfuture.eu/publication/paradox-of-open-responses/

#OpenAccess #OpenEducation #OpenSource #OpenData #OpenWeb #DigitalRights #DigitalCommons #DigitalPublicSpace #OpenGLAM #Copyright