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💻🌱 Continuing the complete documentation of #TheTechWeWant Summit. You can now access the video and summary of Panel 2 - "The Tech We Want is Built and Maintained with Care", with Sara Petti Katharina Meyer (Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund) Mathieu Jacomy Allison Pike (Infield). 👉🏾 https://lnkd.in/d4-Jc4y8 In this series of posts, the Open Knowledge Foundation brings you the documentation of each session, opening the content generated during these two intense days of reflection and joint work accessible and open. The Tech We Want Summit took place between 17 and 18 October 2024 – in total, 43 speakers from 23 countries interacted with 700+ registered people about new practical ways to build software that is useful, simple, long-lasting, and focused on solving people’s real problems. 🔴 Main topics: - The Importance of Maintenance in Technology - Challenges Faced by Open Source Maintainers - The Invisibility of Maintenance Work - Valuing and Supporting Maintenance Work - Innovative Funding for Open Source Projects - Challenges in Research Funding - Implementation Experiments and Guiding Principles - Infrastructure Insights and Predictive Modeling - Proactive Resource Allocation - Science as a Vessel for Sustainable Research - Personal Experiences with Funding - The Power Dynamics of Funding Maintenance - Corporate Culture and Maintenance Rotations - Ecosystem-Specific Maintenance Strategies - Ethical and Environmental Implications of Digital Infrastructure - The Importance of Care in Maintenance - Visibility and Responsibility in Open Source Maintenance - Community Support and Purpose in Open Source

📣🤗 Announcement: The Open Knowledge Foundation has just been recognised by NGOsource as equivalent to a US public charity. It's not enough to say we're proud – we're dignified! This status represents a major milestone and opens new avenues for partnerships with US-based donors and foundations. By meeting NGOsource’s rigorous criteria, we are demonstrating our commitment to transparency, accountability, and impact on a global scale. This designation means that foundations and individuals in the United States can now make tax-deductible grants and donations to OKFN with fewer restrictions, knowing that their contributions are directed toward a recognised, vetted nonprofit organisation. Our CEO, Renata Avila, shared her appreciation for the recognition: "We can continue to nurture and grow a network of leaders and communities in every region of the world, and innovate to unlock the potential of open knowledge, data and digital technologies for the public good." 👉🏾 Find out more on our blog and learn how it is now easier and even more reliable to join us towards a fair, sustainable and open future: https://lnkd.in/dCGzjEwD #EDcertified cc TechSoup Council on Foundations

💻🌱 Kicking off the complete documentation of #TheTechWeWant Summit. You can now access the video and summary of Panel 1 - "The Tech We Want is Political", with Renata Avila Anita Gurumurthy IT for Change Poncelet Ileleji Jokkolabs Banjul Bolaji Ayodeji Digital Public Goods Alliance . 👉🏾 https://lnkd.in/d4-AMQqx In this series of posts, the Open Knowledge Foundation brings you the documentation of each session, opening the content generated during these two intense days of reflection and joint work accessible and open. The Tech We Want Summit took place between 17 and 18 October 2024 – in total, 43 speakers from 23 countries interacted with 700+ registered people about new practical ways to build software that is useful, simple, long-lasting, and focused on solving people’s real problems. 🔴 Main topics: - Introduction and Opening Remarks - The Intersection of Technology and Politics - Panel Introduction and Key Questions - Anita's Perspective on Digital Justice - Poncelet's Insights on Africa's Digital Divide - Bolaji on Digital Public Goods - Digital Public Goods Alliance: Bridging the Gap - Empowering Women Farmers in India - Challenges and Innovations in Platform Models - Public AI and Education in Kerala - African Technological Sovereignty - Digital Public Goods in Action - The Future of Civic Tech and Public Goods

📃🤗 "From Open Data to Sustainable Data Commons" After the kickoff round table last Friday, we are happy to publicly announce our new project with the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS. Together with our communities, we want to build better governance mechanisms and legal tools to develop and maintain the #datacommons. We will advance access to knowledge, information, and data, data literacy, the development of tools for reproducible research, and the establishment of an infrastructure and legal framework for sustainable data commons. This will result in a Network of Connected Communities using the tools, making the effort sustainable, and an Interoperable Data Ecosystem with value sharing, all resulting in sustainable, ethical, inclusive, generative data commons. 👉🏾 More about the project: https://lnkd.in/dmnvZ3yY Both partners are established leaders with 20 years of experience in open licensing, advocacy, and interdisciplinary backgrounds. The team members are already working on projects with communities: Renata Avila Melanie Dulong de Rosnay Antonios Broumas Freyja van den Boom Valérian Guillier Ramya Chandrasekhar Lucas Pretti Semra Sonmez -- 🔖 To get discussions started, here's a great resource. This article by Ramya Chandrasekhar about a panel at CPDP.ai summarises the challenges of revising the #OpenDataCommons licences in the age of #AI and #BigData. 👉🏾 Read more: https://lnkd.in/dR9VeSte

Le CEP a contribué au T7 Italia 2024 ! 🇮🇹 Depuis plusieurs mois, nos experts Anselm Küsters et Eleonora Poli, PhD, font partie de la Task Force "Science et Digitalisation pour un Meilleur Avenir" du T7 Italia. Cette équipe de think tanks, composée de représentants des pays membres du G7, vise à maximiser et partager les avantages de la technologie pour le bien commun. Voici les différentes étapes de leur contribution : 1) Candidature:   Nos experts ont répondu à l'appel à soumissions en proposant une des problématiques correspondant aux différents thèmes de la Task Force :   - Collaboration mondiale pour l'utilisation des technologies numériques   - Infrastructures numériques et connectivité   - Régulation de l'intelligence artificielle (IA)   - Gouvernance des données et plateformes technologiques   - Transformation technologique et avenir du travail   - Rôle de l'innovation pour un développement durable, humain et inclusif 2) Développement de la proposition pour une analyse politique : Après la validation de leur proposition par le Conseil de la Task Force, nos experts ont collaboré avec la Digital Public Goods Alliance , la Open Future Foundation, la Open Knowledge Foundation et MicroSave Consulting (MSC) pour développer une analyse. Le thème de recherche de ce groupe s'est concentré sur les impacts que les progrès de l'IA pourraient avoir sur les inégalités nationales et mondiales. Ils plaident pour une gouvernance démocratique et des infrastructures numériques publiques qui garantissent la protection des droits humains. Selon eux, l'infrastructure de l'IA doit être ouverte et accessible à tous. 3) Présentation de l'étude au T7 : Lors du Sommet Think7 (T7) Italy 2024, l'ensemble de la Task Force a pu présenter ses cinq recommandations au G7 pour une gestion responsable des systèmes d'IA. 👏 Félicitations à nos experts pour leur engagement ! Nous vous invitons à lire leur publication en anglais ici : https://lnkd.in/exJ2tt38 #T7 #italia #G7 #TaskForce #IA

🐛🕸️ It started as an inside joke: ‘Why don’t we have a #Halloween party with the tech we DON'T want?’ We could talk about bugs, bad code, closed and proprietary stacks, disappearing dependencies, PDFs, things we generally hate. The idea got people excited. And then we thought, ‘Why not open it up to anyone who wants to come?’ So we asked some AI we hate to create a poster (which turned out awful). And here we are: https://lnkd.in/dC_F5syq 🎃 Next Thursday, October 31st, 11:00 CEST, bring your scary tech story and celebrate Halloween – or #Buggyween – at this informal meeting with the Open Knowledge Foundation team. We’ve just been inspired by last week’s #TheTechWeWant Summit (https://lnkd.in/getShzYj), and thought it would be fun to unload all the worst we see out there in a session opposite. Let’s make a toast with bad coffee and sweets to the technologies we don’t want (like Zoom!). 👉🏾 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dGXw-uZt

😣 Ah, the vulnerabilities of open source stacks... Why is it always so easy to find examples of tech we don't want? 👇🏽 In this blog our Tech Lead Patricio Del Boca tells us about a recent problem in the development of the #OpenDataEditor

💙 What can we say apart from THANK YOU? 💙 💻🌱 #TheTechWeWant Summit was a great moment in our year, bringing together our beloved community of technologists, practitioners and creators for two days to show that a different technology stack is possible (and we're already doing it) - one that's more useful, simpler, more durable and focused on solving people's real problems. At the Open Knowledge Foundation we are grateful and motivated to continue promoting a fair, sustainable and open future through technology. Many thanks to the speakers and hundreds of participants from all over the world! You can view the recordings by clicking on the links below: 1️⃣ Day One – https://lnkd.in/dF27ix7N 2️⃣ Day Two – https://lnkd.in/dKVnta-P We are now working on the documentation, which will be published in the coming weeks. Each panel will have its video edited with a summary and notes of what was discussed. We'll be in touch with the community soon about the next steps in this initiative. Some top-level stats: 🗣️ 43 Speakers in total 🌐 23 Countries represented 🤓 15 Demos of the tech we want 🌟 711 Registered participants 📺 14 Hours of live streaming 🤗 13 Content partners Huge thanks again to Renata Avila Cory Doctorow Mishi Choudhary, Esq. Patricio Del Boca Sara Petti Lucas Pretti Anita Gurumurthy Poncelet Ileleji Bolaji Ayodeji Allison Pike Katharina Meyer Mathieu Jacomy Christoph Becker Fieke Jansen Shweata N. Hegde Paz Peña Ochoa isabela F. Sid Drmay Angela Oduor Lungati Denis "Jaromil" Roio Gerardo Adrían Cambiagno Florencia Serale Armando J. Manzueta Peña Andres Vazquez plus all those that LinkedIn didn't let us tag (see the first comment). We can't wait for more! #BetterOpenThanClosed #BetterTogetherThanAlone

🔴 LIVE NOW: #TheTechWeWant Demos: https://lnkd.in/dKVnta-P 💻🌱 The tech we want is happening now! Join us to learn from 15 projects from all around the world selected through an open call. These are great examples of projects, big and small, that are already trying to build the technology we want. In this two-day online summit, the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) is bringing together key voices working on public interest technologies to start a collective conversation about new practical ways to build software that is useful, simple, long-lasting and focused on solving people's real problems. The summit will be broadcast all day this Friday, 18 October, until 16:30 UTC. 🌟 Full Programme: https://lnkd.in/dsS_Ck5B 🤩 Sessions with fantastic speakers in today's line-up: Parijat Bhadra Cherry Murillon Talant Sultanov Romina Colman Oleg Lavrovsky Hendrik Erz Denny George Dr Kim Foale Matti Schneider Ramesh Narayanan Brandon Tabaska Benjamin Degenhart Giulio Carvalho Nil Homedes Busquets Martín S. 🙏🏾 Many thanks again to our content partners: critical infrastructure lab Digital Public Goods Alliance Dyne.org foundation Free Software Foundation Global Voices IT for Change Jokkolabs Banjul Open Knowledge Ghana Open Source Hardware Association #semanticClimate#semanticClimate#semanticClimate The Tor Project Ushahidi Xnet #BetterTogetherThanAlone #BetterOpenThanClosed