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May
16
SDEPS Newsletter #3
Welcome to the third issue of the SDEPS newsletter
2 min read
Apr
13
SDEPS Newsletter #2
The second issue of SDEPS's newsletter, including updates from the past weeks and glimpses of what is happening in the upcoming ones
2 min read
Apr
12
Towards Public Digital Infrastructure: A proposed governance model.
NGI Forward's report outlining how Europe should provide an alternative vision to these top-down approaches and support Public Digital Infrastructure.
1 min read
Mar
25
CBA Labs & Conference: Building a European Cultural Backbone
The Cultural Broadcasting Archive is inviting to participate in a series of events in Linz, Austria to explore and expand technology for community-based exchange and publication.
1 min read
Mar
18
Open Future & Commons Network: Generative Interoperability: Building Public and Civic Spaces Online
Open Future and Commons Network publish the report "Generative Interoperability: Building Public and Civic Spaces Online"
1 min read
Mar
15
A conversation about Interoperability and building digital public spaces
Open Future and Commons Network co-host an online discussion on generative introperablity
1 min read
Mar
08
SDEPS Newsletter #1
The very first issue of SDEPS Newsletter, featuring the latest updates from our coalition
3 min read
Mar
01
Building digital spaces in the public interest - Where we are and how to move forward - session at MozFest
MozFest session organised by Waag and PublicSpaces: Building digital spaces in the public interest - Where we are and how to move forward.
1 min read
Feb
22
Ethical Dilemma Cafè
BBC R&D and Mozilla Foundation are exploring data ethical dilemmas in Manchester on 26-27 April 2022
1 min read
Feb
11
Vive les biens communs numériques!
Paul Keller's (Open Future) take on France's call for the creation of a European Initiative for Digital Commons
3 min read
Feb
09
If you want to give people a seat, you need a table first
Jan-Hendrik Passoth on Interoperability for Digital Public Space. This is the seventh part of our series of interviews with experts on how to get to public-civic spaces and the role of interoperability in getting there.
5 min read
Jan
27
Digital Principles: The Digital Public Space is still a largely empty promise
Alek Tarkowski (Open Future) on the Declaration on EU Digital Rights and Principles proposed by the Commission.
9 min read
Jan
26
Commission puts forward declaration on digital rights and principles for everyone in the EU
Today (January 26th 2022) the European commission adopted a proposals for a
European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for
1 min read
Jan
13
Don’t Call It Alternative, Call It Normal
Aik van Eemeren on Interoperability for Digital Public Space. This is the sixth part of our series of interviews with experts on how to get to public-civic spaces and the role of interoperability in getting there.
5 min read
Dec
16
inDICEs at the European Policy Forum
Kristina Petrasova (Beeld en Geluid) reports on the two-day Policy Forum which took place in Brussels on 17 and 18th of November 2021
5 min read
Dec
07
Interoperability gives the potential of freedom
Jaromil on Interoperability for Digital Public Spaces. This is the fifth part of our series of interviews with experts on how to get to public-civic spaces and the role of interoperability in getting there.
6 min read
Nov
04
Interoperable to whose benefit?
natacha roussel on Interoperability for Digital Public Spaces. This is the fourth part of our series of interviews with experts on how to get to public-civic spaces and the role of interoperability in getting there.
5 min read
Oct
21
If you want an interoperable Internet, start with how organizations work
Mai Sutton on Interoperability for Digital Public Spaces. This is the third part of our series of interviews with experts on how to get to public-civic spaces and the role of interoperability in getting there.
6 min read
Oct
11
It’s not the technology, it’s the players
Geert-Jan Bogaerts on Interoperability for Digital Public Space. This is the first part of the series of interviews with experts on how to get to public-civic spaces and the role of interoperability in getting there.
4 min read
Sep
29
Open Future: Digital Public Space
The article is Open Future's contribution to Building a European Digital Public Space - Strategies for taking back control from Big Tech platforms, a book edited by Aleksander Baratsits.
1 min read
Sep
27
Keep the internet public. The market will thank us later
Nathan Schneider on Interoperability for Digital Public Space. This is the first part of our series of interviews with experts on how to get to public-civic spaces and the role of interoperability in getting there.
6 min read
Jul
03
First SDEPS event: an introduction
On Friday 9th July 2021 at 14:00 CET / 13:00h BST, the SDEPS (Shared Digital
European Public Sphere) coalition
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Jun
07
Towards Online Public-Civic Spaces
In this blog, co-written by Commons Network and Open Future Foundation, we take stock of our research on Interoperable Public Civic Ecosystem.
4 min read
Apr
03
SDEPS introduced at PublicSpaces Conference #1
Watch the panel session on the need for Shared Digital European Public SpacesOn
11 and 12 March 2021, the first
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Mar
11
SDEPS bootstrap meeting on 9 April 2021
The nucleus of the European SDEPS coalition was preliminarily founded at an
online summit on 30 October 2020. The idea
Feb
21
Who are we and what are we about?
Who is SDEPS?
We are a coalition of organisations and initiatives
[https://sdeps.ghost.io/about-sdeps/] united in our desire
2 min read
Jan
01
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Want to stay informed automatically about the SDEPS activities, news on shared
digital (European) public spaces, decreasing Big Tech and
Nov
16
Waag: Digital European Public Spaces
The Amsterdam-based institution Waag published a report defining the problems and concerns around digital public spaces while identifying foundational values for these spaces.
1 min read
Sep
28
NGI Forward: A Vision for the Future Internet
NGI Forward's working paper setting out an ambitious vision for the future of the internet.
1 min read
Jul
15
ACATEC: European Public Sphere. Towards Digital Sovereignty for Europe
A project group of acatech studied the challenges that arise from Europe’s digital dependency and have particular implications for our democratic values.
1 min read
Jan
17
Ethan Zuckerman: The Case for Digital Public Infrastructure
Ethan Zuckerman imagines possible futures where surveillant advertising delivered by monopoly providers isn’t the only available option to build a thriving future of democratic communications.
Apr
18
A Vision for a Shared Digital Europe
The vision provides a digital policy framework that helps build a more equitable and democratic digital environment
1 min read