Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (D//F)

Huge congrats, Erin Kissane & Darius Kazemi on the report & recommendations release! (Full access & download via: infrastructureinsights.fund/wp-content/upl…)

📑infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/fediv… Both researchers have been featured in the ecosystem: 🎧 Listen to Erin Kissane on the TechPolicy.Press - podcast here: techpolicy.press/governing-the-… - 👨‍🏫 and 2 talks Darius gave at FOSSY & XOXO here: youtube.com/watch?v=Jy6l92… & 2024.fossy.us/schedule/prese…

We keep them coming today: {📷New report alert # 2!} : *Fediverse Governance: Successes and gaps* Decentralized social media's rapid expansion, notably via the Fediverse and FOSS project Mastodon, brings both opportunities and multifaceted risks.

Access to results and contact: Cutting through open-washing - infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/cutti… // infrastructureinsights.fund/wp-content/upl…

The paper therefore recommends a set of non-mutually exclusive policy options that could be taken on board by countries who are drafting and/or reviewing their own AI legislation. cc @FordFoundation @SloanFoundation @OmidyarNetwork @SchmidtFutures

[NEW PAPER ALERT!] Our grantees @A__W______O new paper puts forward a vision for balancing the benefits and risks of #opensource #GenAI (funded by @DigInfFund). Drafted by @NickBotton & @Mathver- a short thread #boundariesofopenness #digitalinfrastructure

field of (peer-)production could have on the people behind the code. PLUS: Thank you, funders circle (@FordFoundation , @SloanFoundation & co) for seeing the importance of this work and supporting the Fund since the very beginning in 2017. To happy new beginnings!

Thank you D//F-Reviewer @cailean_osborne(@linuxfoundation / @NGICommons) for sending us off to the days with a great keynote on metrics, how funders (might) deploy them - and what implications measures and other indicators of professionalisation of (a formerly unregulated)...

Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund just met for the Cohort 4 - kickoff at Ford Foundation in NYC: 2 days of intense discussions, identifying common ground, relentless peer-review and forging connections come to a close: