How do we create public-civic spaces online? What role can ‘interoperability’ play? How could we transform the internet into something less exploitative, and more social and generative? In this blog, co-written by…
Digital Rights on top of the agenda
The corona pandemic – and especially the development of a Dutch corona-app, has reignited debate about online security and digital rights. This week, for instance, there was RESET, an online conference that…
Interoperability #2: The fork in the road
Updates about our deep dive into the digital interoperability debate from the Shared Digital Europe team
Interoperability #1: Policymaking is worldbuilding
Updates from our deep dive into the digital interoperability debate, brought to you by the Shared Digital Europe team
New Book Out Now: Political Ideas for a New Europe
Our Commons: Political Ideas for a New Europe is a collection of essays, case studies and interviews about the commons, published right before the European Elections of May 2019. The book showcases…
The Top 10 Commons Network Publications: 2017-2019
It’s almost summer, so here is a selection of the ten most impactful publications (in no particular order) that we released in the past two years. 1. What can commoners do…
A New 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. To this end, we have created a new policy…
Reframing Digital Europe
Last week, October 3rd and 4th, Commons Network, Kennisland and Centrum Cyfrowe hosted a workshop in Amsterdam on ‘reframing digital Europe’. We brought together hackers, policy wonks, commons and open activists, tech…
An Interview With Mai Ishikawa Sutton, pt. 1
Mai Ishikawa Sutton joined Commons Network this year as a Digital Commons Fellow. After years of working along side eachother, and running into eachother all over the world, we are truly delighted…
Commons Network in London: What would an alternative Internet look like?
#SummerNews: In this series, Commons Network writes about what we’ve been doing over the past few months. It’s been a busy summer. Our friends at netCommons organized a conference in London…