The EU takes steps toward digital sovereignty with new policies, but success requires substantial investment in public digital infrastructure. | Continue reading
The EU is rethinking how public procurement can drive digital sovereignty. Still, its market-focused approach falls short of what is needed to build public digital infrastructure that serves the public interest. | Continue reading
The IETF AI Preferences Working Group has adopted Open Future's opt-out vocabulary proposal as their starting point for developing international standards for expressing AI preferences on the open internet. | Continue reading
The EU's rush to simplify AI regulation risks weakening transparency rules. This regulatory shift threatens core principles needed for responsible AI development. | Continue reading
The AI Continent Action Plan needs a stronger vision of purposeful AI deployment if it wants to achieve more than just boost commercial AI development. | Continue reading
As Senior Policy Analyst at Open Future, Aditya brings nearly a decade of experience in digital rights, data governance, and technology ethics. He will lead our activities in the NGI Commons project. | Continue reading
The EU's AI Code of Practice has a blind spot: it only limits copyright compliance requirements to web crawling. This narrow focus ignores other data collection methods—such as torrenting—potentially creating loopholes in AI training data regulations. | Continue reading
The EU must fund and govern digital commons as part of long-term public infrastructure to escape a cycle of dependency on US or Chinese tech firms. | Continue reading
A draft ITRE committee report on technological sovereignty largely echoes the EU’s industrial agenda, but also fuels a deregulation push. Europe needs public digital infrastructures that serve citizens, not just business interests. | Continue reading
The next EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) will shape Europe's future amid growing tensions and challenges. Zuzanna Warso analyzes a recent EC communication, recommending better budget alignment with digital transformation through public infrastructure priorities, balanced … | Continue reading
Following an initiative at the European Parliament backed by multiple political parties, Francesca Bria, along with Fausto Gernone and Paul Timmers, coordinated the release of the “EuroStack – Building a European alternative for technological sovereignty” report today. The Bertel … | Continue reading
Open Future launches the CommonsDB initiative to create a prototype registry of public domain and openly licensed works. The registry will enable users to verify the rights status of content from multiple sources. | Continue reading
We are pleased to announce that Doug McCarthy has joined Open Future as a Senior Open Content Specialist. Doug will lead our work on the CommonsDB project to develop an EU Registry of Public Domain and open-licensed works. | Continue reading
Our feedback on the the first outline of the template for a summary of training data that was presented by the AI office in January. | Continue reading
Analysis of the EU's challenge in balancing digital sovereignty with openness in its industrial strategy, focusing on reducing dependence on foreign semiconductors. | Continue reading
Recent developments in decentralized social media signal a pivotal shift away from corporate-controlled platforms. | Continue reading
While the EU AI Act is the most significant opportunity to advance AI transparency, this analysis argues what information should be disclosed in a "sufficiently detailed summary", who it matters to, and why trade secrets cannot be used as an excuse to undermine transparency. | Continue reading
Open Future has joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA). As a global steward of digital public goods, the DPGA mission is closely aligned with our goals of cultivating Digital Commons and building Digital Public Space. | Continue reading
Support for knowledge sharing today requires engaging with the rapid changes to the digital environment that could impact our ability to prioritize the public interest. | Continue reading
This week, the Open Source Initiative released its definition of open source AI. This analysis considers its significance as a standard, its limitations, and the need for a broader community norm. | Continue reading
The report "Generative Interoperability: Building public and civic spaces online" co-authored with Commons Network, proposes to treat interoperability as a policy principle that supports the creation of new public-civic digital spaces. | Continue reading