Known as Digital Commons, communities that self-organize to build and maintain digital resources provide essential infrastructure. “Many Digital Commons today not only maintain key contemporary infrastructures but also form some of the only alternatives to a digital landscape largely dominated by profit-seeking platforms that endanger our democracies and disregard our digital rights. Public institutions need to, therefore, further support these communities. At the same time, communities must also become increasingly aware of their societal responsibilities and take part in broader collective initiatives and partnerships.” – writes Jan Krewer in his latest post. You can find the link in his post below 👇 #DigitalCommons #PublicDigitalInfrastructure #DigitalRights
Over the past two weeks, I had the privilege of participating in several events that brought together diverse communities from the open movement and beyond. I had great conversations on the future of these communities with some inspiring people, such as Em Lewis-Jong from Mozilla, Sophie Bloemen from the Commons Network, Daniel Brumund from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Daniel Sigge, Ulrike Domenika Bolls, Sonja Fischbauer, Martin Gerlach or Riham Abed-Ali and Jasmin Ibrahim from Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. Today, many Digital Commons not only maintain key contemporary infrastructures but also form some of the only alternatives to a digital landscape largely dominated by profit-seeking platforms that endanger our democracies and disregard our digital rights. I am convinced that public institutions therefore need to further support these communities. At the same time, some of these communities must also become much more aware of their societal responsibilities and take part in broader collective initiatives and partnerships. You can find some of my thoughts in this short blog post: https://lnkd.in/eyW4QUJ5 #DigitalCommons #PublicDigitalInfrastructure #DigitalRights
