research blog Digital Services Act: Lets talk about objective and values before retreating into the trenches By all accounts Tuesday's confirmation hearing of Margrethe Vestager, the designated European Commission Executive Vice President in charge of making "Europe fit for the Digital Age" went pretty well for her
research blog A Human Centric Digital Manifesto for Europe Today BEUC and OSEPI are launching the "Human Centric Digital Manifesto for Europe". The document provides recommendations on how to ensure that "the digital transformation can serve the public interest&
research blog Europe’s Digital Leadership Package lacks a sense of mission In late August Politico published an internal Commission document outlining a list of proposed priorities for the next European Commission. Among more than 100 proposed priorities, the document contains four priorities in the
vision A Vision for a Shared Digital Europe This document summarises the efforts undertaken by Kennisland, Centrum Cyfrowe and Commons Network to develop a new vision for digital policymaking in Europe[1]. To this end, we have created a new policy
principles Principle: Empower Public Institutions Europe has a long and rich history of delivering public goods and services through public institutions. Publicly-funded cultural heritage institutions contribute to our identity, and encourage learning and creativity. Public libraries serve as
principles Principle: Decentralise infrastructure Decentralisation is the basic shift caused in the past by core network technologies, from the original packet-switching networks, through peer-to-peer content networks, to currently developed blockchain-based solutions. Decentralised infrastructure is open, distributed and
principles Principle: Cultivate the Commons Commons are shared resources and social practices maintained by communities. Commons consist not only of resources such as land, knowledge, culture, fresh water, scientific research or software, but also describes the community of
principles Principle: Enable Self-Determination Self-determination in the digital environment refers to the right to privacy and the need for more democratic models of data governance and algorithmic transparency. The call for self-determination in the digital environment is
research blog Human/People centric digital space Recently the idea/trope of a Human/People centric digital space has been put forward by different civil scoiety / digital rights organisations. OSEPI and BEUC are working on a Human-centric digital Manifesto for
amsterdam workshop Amsterdam workshop: Core concepts session This post documents the outcome of the discussion of the core concepts breakout group (Anna, Joanna, Kasha, Diego, Duncan, Stacco & Paul) that took place suring the morning of the second day. Process
amsterdam workshop Amsterdam workshop: Work on narratives This is a summary on the work on narratives that we did on the afternoon of the first day and the moring of the second. It is extracted from the full notes on
research blog Reframing the DSM (GUE/NGL version) Was just reading trough the pleanry amendements tabled for wednesday's vote on the DSM directive and came across this AM by GUE/NGL that targets recital 1 of the proposed directive (which states
research blog Suggested reading: Andres Guadamuz on Internet politics Intresting blog post from Andres Guadamuz (and old friend of Alek and mine who belonged to the first generation of Creative Commons activists in Europe) on changes he observes in internet politics. Contains
research blog Initial thoughts (Paul) "For 25 years the market has dominated the discussion about technology, there is a real chance to change this now" (Marleen Stikker, 17-7-2018) For me the objective of this exercise it
research blog Recommended listening: On The Media on framing This past weekends episode of the On The Media podast had two intresting segments that deal with policy framing. The first segment dives into the origin story of the Overton Window theory which
research blog Reframing copyright policy (learning from the enemy) Judith pointed out that when it comes to EU policy proposals these tend to be based on some aspect of the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union(TFEU). In line with
research blog Recommended listening: Kara Swisher interviews Mark Zuckerberg There is an intresting passage in the Recode Decode interview with Mark Zukerberg (the one that got him into so much travel for calling holocuast deniers "misinformed") in which he adresses
research blog Suggested reading: Mastering the art of the narrative: using stories to shape public policy Short blog entry summarizing an academic paper on the question. Mainly open doors, but might provide a good framework about waht we mean when we talk about "framing (the narrative)". Published
research blog Suggested reading: Mike Linksvayer ca. 2014 I stumbled across two posts by Mike Linksveyer (ex Creative Commons now at GitHub) from 2014 in which he discusses framing of digital policy in relation to the Commons. The first one is
research paper Origins and Narrative of the EU “Digital Single Market” Organized chronologically, bold means terms or meaning, highlight is the most important stuff. Digital single market in French: Marché unique du numérique. DSM out of EU context Flint’s 1997 article, “Internet Domain
research blog Project proposal Executive Summary. With this proposal we are proposing a set of targeted activities by Kennisland, Centrum Cyfrowe and the Commons Network aimed at developing an alternative policy frame for digital policymaking (with a
