👉🏾 @EDPS announced EU voice is closing
👉🏾 @EU_Commission has 100,000 followers
👉🏾 #EuropeanCommission social #ActivityPub account will primarily be on Threads
👉🏾 EU Voice should ask citizens & local businesses in #Europe for instance funding help
Gotta say that EC's messaging is quite confusing. Hope there'll be more follow-up soon.
Yesterday I attended a @commonsnetwork organized event in The Hague about #Government and building #DigitalCommons, and among the crowds of representatives of many different institutions there, there was A TON of interest for decentralized #SocialWeb technologies.
#AI#OpenData#DigitalCommons: "In February, our AI and the Commons community call’s guests were Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Yaniv Benhamou. The meeting focused on their recent paper on Open Data Commons Licenses (ODCL), which proposes a standardized approach for licensing various rights in data. The licenses expand the open licensing approach by adding mechanisms for personal data and limitations on the scope of use. In addition, they combine licensing with a data trust and other collective forms of data governance.
The exploration that led to the creation of the licenses is related to questions about the use of data in AI training. Melanie and Yaniv claim that standardized licensing is a strong tool to protect both user rights and the commons as long as limitations of open licenses as tools for governing complex rights in data are addressed. We have also been exploring this issue, starting with the AI_Commons case study. We have been arguing that Open Access and related approaches provide minimal data governance mechanisms that are insufficient to address those challenges that go beyond copyright issues. Dulong de Rosnay and Benhamou draw similar conclusions from the current state of data sharing: “the ethos of the commons has yet to be fully performed and refined for data.”
Do you agree that the internet should be improved in terms of trustworthiness/security/user autonomy/decentralization/openness/.../?
Are you working on a project to get us there?
Would it help to receive funding and practical support to realize that project?
Well, there are 7 open calls right now within the @EC_NGI's #NextGenerationInternet initiative.
There is 1 for #DigitalCurrency, 1 for #mobile, 3 for #search, 1 for #InternetArchitecture & 1 for #DigitalCommons. https://www.ngi.eu/opencalls/
We experienced the #RedditBlackOut and we want to give the power back to the users.
We just granted €3000 to @LemmyDev and €333 to @ernest to support the new #threadiverse who already has hundreds of "subs" and thousands of users.
This grant is part of our engagement with the @copiepublique initiative that gathers companies who pledged to share profits to grant #FLOSS and #digitalCommons.
#EU#DigitalSovereignty#DigitalRights#DigitalCommons: "As Europe approaches political elections, the urgency of creating digital platforms immune to the manipulative strategies of populist and far-right movements is more apparent than ever. These platforms must be founded with a strong commitment to digital rights, cultivating a digital public sphere that champions values such as pluralism, privacy, and freedom of expression.
To achieve this, I propose the creation of a 10 billion euros EU Digital Sovereignty Fund, to unify and scale our efforts. This fund will blend grants and equity investments, fostering pan European collaboration among our national innovation agencies. This ambitious initiative will have the aim to establish robust digital public infrastructures and digital commons, offering viable alternatives to current monopolistic digital platform models, supporting the deployment of open AI models and decentralized applications, sovereign data spaces, open knowledge tools and content, privacy-preserving digital IDs, and digital payment systems."
“#BigTech companies calling for government help is to me like a circle of anonymous alcoholics, ‘I need help because I can't stop myself’. These are the big companies getting hundreds of millions of dollars from the capital market, and who now go to governments telling ‘we don't know what we're doing’. This cannot be. With big power comes big responsibility to society.” — Roberto Viola, DGCNECT at #NGIForum23@EC_NGI
Livestream: https://ngiforum2023.eu/live-streaming/plenaries-sessions-15-11/ #DSA#AIAct
“#DigitalCommons must become the first way, as it was when it enabled the web, invented in Europe through open collaboration. We have good states, good administrations.
A first step, as Europeans, is to build our governmental technology stack with digital commons and then export it.” @HenriVerdier@ambnum#NGIForum23