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This publication is operated by Open Future. Open Future is a think tank that develops new approaches to an open internet that maximise societal benefits of shared data, knowledge and culture.
About Open Future
At Open Future we shape today’s digital policies with tomorrow’s challenges in mind. We put our knowledge and experience to work along EU institutions and civil society to ensure that the principle of openness is reflected in the European Union’s digital policy framework.
We believe that Europe has a mission to keep the internet open and make it better. To rebuild it, so that it is a place governed by equal opportunities, democratic access to information and respect for fundamental rights. A public space built on the idea of the commons. We work on advancing Digital Public Spaces, building Data Commons and designing the Future of Open. We do this by developing approaches to open that maximise the societal benefits of information resources.
We think that the current European policy environment provides a real opportunity to realise these objectives by enacting meaningful legislative change. At the same time we are also setting our sights on developing initiatives for the next European Commission to take up.
About this publication
This publication contains a selection of our publications with a special focus on texts that are still evolving and for which we are looking for feedback. You can find all our publications on our main website www.openfuture.eu.
Published: Oct 17, 2023
This paper takes a close look at digital rights, examining them as a framework playing a role in shaping the dynamics of online ecosystems. It considers the feasibility of a holistic rights-based approach to building genuine digital public spaces.
KS
Published: Sep 21, 2023
Krzysztof Siewicz, an Open Future 2023 fellow, looks into the regulatory requirements and potential challenges of establishing the European Public Digital Infrastructure Fund. Krzysztof’s work was supported by funding from Omidyar Network.
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Published: Jul 06, 2023
One of our goals at Open Future is to make sense of openness and the movement advancing this principle. To this end, we have conducted an exploratory mapping of the movement using network analysis methods and data collected from Twitter.
AJ
Published: Jun 07, 2023
Research report based on interviews with digital activists and open movement leaders
Published: Apr 07, 2023
In this document, we collect questions delineating the field of research and activism that we refer to as "Openness and AI."
KF
Published: Feb 07, 2023
The RAIL licenses are gaining ground, but permissive sharing is still the prominent norm governing the sharing of ML models on huggingface.co. This analysis aims at understanding how licenses are used by developers making ML model-related code and or data publicly available.
Published: Dec 16, 2022
This white paper identifies the need for a European Public Digital Infrastructure Fund as an instrument for building out Digital Public Spaces in Europe.
Published: Sep 28, 2022
A white paper on understanding the implications of face recognition training with CC-licensed photographs
Published: Sep 09, 2022
These notes offer an initial analysis of a growing movement that strives to make key machine learning tools and technologies open and shared.
Published: Sep 29, 2021
This is a preprint of a book chapter, to be published in: Alexander Baratsits (ed.), European Public Spheres, Digitisation and Public Welfare Orientation.
FR
Published: Sep 21, 2021
White-paper outlining the concept for a public repository of public domain and openly licensed works.
Published: Mar 05, 2021
In today’s digital environment, openness serves as both a challenge to concentrations of power and its enabler. Solving this paradox is at the heart of our work, which focuses on three objectives.
Published: May 14, 2021
Introducing the concept of generative interoperability - a design principle that has the potential to build a more decentralized infrastructure that enables individual self-determination in the online environment.
