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"One could argue that by repurposing creative works, AI has expanded the art multiplier: each dollar spent on the arts now yields its usual social return, as well as additional value derived from its incorporation into AI systems.

Yet, despite the value of their contributions, public funding for artists and creators has steadily declined. In the United Kingdom, for example, direct support from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to national arts bodies fell by 18% per person in real terms between 2009-10 and 2022-23. Over the same period, core funding for arts councils dropped by 18% in England, 22% in Scotland, 25% in Wales, and 66% in Northern Ireland. As generative AI continues to churn out synthetic content and displace human labor, that support must increase to reflect the realities of a changing creative economy.

Admittedly, with public finances under pressure and debt on the rise, this is hardly the time for unchecked government spending. Any additional funding would need to be financed responsibly. While a detailed policy blueprint is beyond the scope of this article, it’s worth noting that the enormous profits generated by major tech firms could be partially redirected to support the creative communities that power their models.

One way to achieve this would be to impose a levy on the gross revenues of the largest AI providers, collected by a national or multilateral agency. As the technology becomes increasingly embedded in daily life and production processes, the revenue flowing to AI firms is bound to grow – and so, too, will contributions to the fund. These resources could then be distributed by independent grant councils on multiyear cycles, ensuring that support reaches a wide range of disciplines and regions."

project-syndicate.org/onpoint/

Project SyndicateAI Should Help Fund Creative LaborMariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.
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Free software is critical infrastructure, yet its upkeep falls on volunteers while giants like Microsoft or Google profit. As with other public goods, they should fund it via a dedicated tax feeding (like roads) a European fund (EU-STF) to ensure security and digital sovereignty. Europeans shouldn’t pay so Amazon can remain a free rider.

You can now watch in replay the official launch event of the OpenFisca Association and discover the path for further adoption of #RulesAsCode, the governance of transformative #DigitalCommons and the state of OpenFisca adoption around the world.
videos.lescommuns.org/w/3w9FrF
Thanks again to our speakers for sharing their insights: Ambassador @HenriVerdier; CEO of @dpgalliance Liv Nordhaug; Senior G7 Researcher Jess Rapson; CEO of GovTechTokyo; association executive director @MattiSG!

🌍 In Milan: the @NGICommons General Assembly just discussed the future of the and the new Open Internet Stack.

"The OIS label must carry the spirit of NGI," said @Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay.
If you wish to read more: commons.ngi.eu/2025/07/14/embr

The future is open—and it's being built now. 🛠️

🗓️ Save the date: NGI Policy Summit – 20 Nov 2025.



@martelinnovate
@openfuture
@OpenForumEurope
@cnrs
@linuxfoundation

Aanvraag voor EDIC Digital Commons ingediend

Op 8 juli hebben Frankrijk, Duitsland, Italië en Nederland de aanvraag ondertekend en ingediend bij de Europese Commissie om de European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) Digitale Gemeenschapsgoederen (Digital Commons) op te richten.

Het doel van de EDIC is om de digitale autonomie van Europa en haar lidstaten te versterken.

Lees verder: digitaleoverheid.nl/nieuws/aan.

Wir gestalten die Zukunft europäischer digitaler Infrastrukturen und digitaler Souveränität – und zwar gemeinsam!🇪🇺
Wir haben am European Digital Infrastructure Consortium for #DigitalCommons von Anfang mitgewirkt, um unsere Arbeit an kritischen offenen Technologien auf europäischer Ebene zu verstärken und zu koordinieren. Wir freuen uns über den Startschuss und auf die Zusammenarbeit mit unseren europäischen Partnern 🇫🇷🇳🇱🇮🇹!

#DigitaleGemeinschaftsgüter #EDIC
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www.linkedin.com🇪🇺 Heute in Brüssel: Ein Meilenstein auf dem Weg zu mehr digitaler Souveränität in Europa – gemeinsam mit unseren Partnern aus 🇫🇷 Frankreich, 🇳🇱 den Niederlanden und 🇮🇹 Italien haben wir die… | Markus Richter🇪🇺 Heute in Brüssel: Ein Meilenstein auf dem Weg zu mehr digitaler Souveränität in Europa – gemeinsam mit unseren Partnern aus 🇫🇷 Frankreich, 🇳🇱 den Niederlanden und 🇮🇹 Italien haben wir die Gründungsunterlagen für das neue European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) for Digital Commons finalisiert und unterzeichnet. 🤝 Ziel ist es, mit dem DC-EDIC eine starke europäische Struktur zu schaffen, die: • strategische digitale Gemeinschaftsgüter (Open Source, Standards, Dateninfrastrukturen) entwickelt, wartet und skaliert, • den Zugang zu Finanzierung erleichtert, • und eine starke, europäische Community rund um digitale Commons etabliert. 📍Der Sitz des EDIC soll in Paris sein – die Gründung als Organisation durch die EU-Kommission ist nun offiziell beantragt. 🇩🇪 Deutschland engagiert sich über das Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung, das Zentrum Digitale Souveränität (ZenDiS) und die Sovereign Tech Agency flankiert durch starke Partnerschaften mit EU-Mitgliedstaaten. 🌍 Das DC-EDIC ist ein europäisches Pionierprojekt im Sinne der Digitalstrategie 2030 – für ein souveränes, offenes und gemeinwohlorientiertes digitales Europa. #DigitalCommons #EDIC #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #DigitalEurope #DigitalTransformation #Gemeinwoh #WirMachen | 33 comments on LinkedIn

After the Code of Conduct and the Mediation process, the Cooperative Development Guidelines now have a Governance Document that can be used by any Organization/Foundation/Collective/Community/Project that wants to have a governance based on participatory, equity and permacomputing/accessibility principles.

Its time for us to finally start building participatory digital commons, that are developed by the community and for the community and the Governance document is part 1 of doing just that. (Decision making and Structure will follow after this).

I am also excited to announce that @queerspark has also been listed as a collective that adopted pieces of the Cooperative Development Guidelines.

codeberg.org/msavoritias/Coope

Codeberg.orgCooperative_Development_GuidelinesCooperative_Development_Guidelines

The NGI Forum 2025 marked a strategic shift for Europe’s internet future, from R&D to deployment. Our wrap-up report is now live!

📌 Key takeaways:

🔹 Digital wallets = public infrastructure

🔹European Open Web Index is live and growing

🔹Open source needs public procurement reform

🔹Projects like Mastodon, Taler & Decidim = scalable, sovereign solutions

📖 Read the report: ngi.eu/news/2025/06/27/ngi-for

Is the concept of Digital Commons still relevant or just too vague?

@cnrs Centre Internet et Société recently released an in-depth study via @NGICommons exploring how digital resources are shared and governed in Europe today. 📘

With interviews and case studies
please read this sharp analysis here: commons.ngi.eu/2025/06/26/acti

Thank you @_valerian_

@openfuture @OpenForumEurope
@martelinnovate
@linuxfoundation

✅ put and @NGICommons at the heart of the conversation!
Held in Brussels, the event showcased how open infrastructure, public code, and collective governance are shaping the future of the internet.

📖 Catch up: commons.ngi.eu/2025/06/30/digi

@linuxfoundation @openfuture @OpenForumEurope
@cnrs
@martelinnovate
@ngi

👥 Users FIRST at #NGIForum25!
"Co-creating NGI building blocks with end-user at the centre" - designing EU #DigitalSovereignty around actual user needs! 🎯

🎤 Andrés del Álamo Cienfuegos (@Cibervoluntarios) moderating user-centric experts:

Muttukrishnan Rajarajan (University of London)
Ruben Roex (Timelex)
Thanasis Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Follow LIVE the session on the NGI website: ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

🌐 The comprehensive vision for European web sovereignty emerges at #NGIForum25!

🎤 Stefan Voigt from the Open Search Foundation and DLR is moderating the panel discussion on "Web Sovereignty – towards a sovereign web tech stack for Europe" with panelists:

🔹 Renaud Chaput @renchap (@Mastodon)
🔹Gaël Duval @gael (@murena)
🔹Ana Garcia Robles (BDVA)

Follow LIVE the session on the NGI website: ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

Next Generation Internet · Next Generation Internet Forum 2025

🔧 Theory → Practice at #NGIForum25!
"Applications of Open Web Index & Web Data Infrastructure" panel showing real-world use cases 🌍

🎤 Sara Garavelli (@CSC) moderating diverse ecosystem experts:

Emmanuel Cartier (@EU_JRC)
Per Öster (@CSC – IT Center for Science)
Jan Hajič (@OpenEuroLLM)
Wolfgang Oels (@Ecosia)

Follow LIVE the session on the NGI website: ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

Next Generation Internet · Next Generation Internet Forum 2025