Open Future Foundation

🔉 Organized by ProductNation/iSPIRT, the DPI & AI Indo-French Workshop will provide recommendations for the AI ACTION Summit from December 11 to 13. A discussion panel about Digital Commons and Public Digital Infrastructure will take place this Thursday from 11:25 to 12:10 CET. What is the role of the state, the market and communities in Digital Public Infrastructures? Jan Krewer (Senior Policy Analyst, Open Future), Astha Kapoor (Co-Founder and Director, Aapti Institute), Mila Samdub (CyberBRICS Project, Fundação Getulio Vargas; Open Future's fellow) and Renata Avila (CEO, Open Knowledge Foundation) will talk about this and other questions in a session moderated by Ramya Chandrasekhar (PhD Researcher, Centre Internet et Société (CIS) of CNRS) with Hari Subramanian (iSPIRT Foundation) and Didier Calcei (Associate professor, ISG Institut Supérieur de Gestion). 🎟️ Registration for online participation is still open: https://lnkd.in/esiT_zgg #DigitalCommons #PublicDigitalInfrastructure

🗞️ "Transparency around the content used to train AI and information about how it was processed can support the legitimate interests of preventing discrimination and respecting cultural diversity." Learn more in this article by Maximilian Gahntz & Zuzanna Warso, published in Tech Policy Press. https://lnkd.in/dz9FU-Sa #AIAct #AICommons

🤖 Open Future and Fundacja Centrum Cyfrowe’s latest research provides ideas on how to support #opensourceAI and #publicAI globally, learning from cases of small language model development in Poland: SpeakLeash | Spichlerz and PLLuM (Polish Large Language Model) initiative. The publication is written by Alek Tarkowski (Open Future), Kuba Piwowar (Fundacja Centrum Cyfrowe) and Michał Owczarek (Uniwersytet SWPS). This report highlights how #digitalcommons can compete with commercial models and help fight concentrations of power in AI. 🔗 Read or download: https://lnkd.in/dE3XAV8e

🏗️ What is Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI)? This opinion from our fellow Mila Samdub and Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci seeks to bring more specificity and clarity to the concept. “Multiple visions of DPI are circulating today: DPI-as-roads and DPI-as-radio, as well as other variations that don’t map quite so readily onto a single metaphor, including an ongoing European push for DPI as systems to support regional sovereignty.” https://lnkd.in/e-YPVDpu #DPI #DigitalPublicInfrastructure #DigitalCommons

📚 Check out The Glushko & Samuelson Information Law and Policy Lab and Open Future report "Demonopolizing the European Public Domain" for insights on Google Books exclusivity clauses and the Open Data Directive. Written by Arilee Arends, Annette de Bont and Myrthe Rosenberg under the supervision of João Pedro Quintais and Ot van Dalen, the publication provides actionable recommendations for librarians, policymakers, and digital activists. 🔍 Read or download here: https://lnkd.in/dsfe8ZuS #ResearchReport #OpenData #DigitalCommons

💌 Did you miss the monthly newsletter we published last Friday? Learn about our latest reports on #PublicAI and #PublicDomain, get details on November workshops and discussions on #DigitalCommons, register for upcoming events, and more. Read the issue and sign up for the next one ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/dG9_bC5k

📝 Did you know that "AI speaks Polish" and does so openly? As generative AI technologies advance, there are growing concerns about the concentration of power and the unequal distribution of its benefits. While big players continue to dominate, there are examples of digital commons for AI. Our latest research report is a study by Alek Tarkowski (Open Future), Kuba Piwowar (Fundacja Centrum Cyfrowe) and Michał Owczarek (Uniwersytet SWPS) on the ecosystem of open language models in Poland, focusing on the Polish initiatives SpeakLeash | Spichlerz and PLLuM (Polish Large Language Model). These cases of small language model development are examples of a public AI approach: building infrastructure for the public good and with the public orientation of AI in mind. They also show how a broader ecosystem has emerged around these initiatives. We hope that this analysis will be relevant for debates on how to support open source and public AI globally. 🔗 Read or download: https://lnkd.in/dE3XAV8e #OpenSource #DigitalCommons #PublicAI

🚀 ILP Lab and Open Future present a report titled "Demonopolizing the European Public Domain". This study focuses on Google Books exclusivity clauses and the Open Data Directive, and provides actionable recommendations for librarians, policymakers, and digital activists. Thanks to all who contributed to this project, written by Arilee Arends, Annette de Bont and Myrthe Rosenberg under the supervision of João Pedro Quintais and Ot van Dalen. Open Future provided the research questions and facilitated access to some of the interviewees without editorial influence on the final report. 🔍 The full report can be downloaded here: https://lnkd.in/dsfe8ZuS #ResearchReport #OpenData #DigitalCommons

🔉💬 The Mozilla Foundation and Open Future co-hosted an event to explore how to make content used by AI more transparent. MEP Sergey Lagodinsky (Greens/EFA, DE) opened the session with remarks on the importance of transparency The panel, moderated by Zuzanna Warso, included Maximilian Gahntz from the Mozilla Foundation, Sabrina Küspert from the AI Office, Ania Helseth from Meta, and Abbas Lightwalla from IFPI. The Brussels event brought together more than 70 policymakers, industry representatives and civil society to exchange views on what form meaningful transparency requirements for content used to train AI models should take. 📄 Read more: https://lnkd.in/dCTviVjP #aicommons #digitalcommons

📢 We are looking for a talented Project and Research Coordinator to join our team and help us build a public repository of public domain and openly licensed works. Check out the details and apply by 24 November 👉 https://lnkd.in/dd26aGiF #Hiring #ProjectManagement #Research