"In the run-up to the European elections in the summer of 2024, we offer seven proposals for policy interventions in support of the #DigitalCommons. Building on the foundations laid by the regulation of commercial platforms over the past five years, the policies presented below aim to strengthen different forms of Digital Commons as building blocks of the European #DigitalPublicSpace."
“Amazon tracks the phrases we highlight, the words we look up, who else is reading from the same address. All this allows it to deduce the most intimate information about our lives…Public libraries have some of this same information and guard it fiercely, but Amazon feeds it into an insatiable machine designed to extract maximum profit.”
📍 Today and tomorrow, we are co-hosting the Public Spaces Conference in Amsterdam. The event sets out to answer the question: “How do we build an internet that works for everyone? An online space that prioritizes our health, freedom, and livelihoods and is free from the control of Big Tech?”.
We are pleased to see that these goals are supported by a broad spectrum of civil society. The list of signatories includes organizations with a strong focus on digital policy issues, such as @edri, @communia, @creativecommons, Open Knowledge Foundation, and Wikimedia Europe but also representatives of trade unions, such as the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) and organizations working on the social and ecological transition, such as @commonsnetwork#DigitalPublicSpace