Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (D//F)

Multi-funder initiative for researchers & practitioners investigating Open Digital Infrastructure (FOSS conn &dev tools& its builders). Open Calls & Commissions

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Huge congrats, Erin Kissane & Darius Kazemi on the report & recommendations release!
(Full access & download via: https://t.co/Rbcy0JdLvU)

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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.

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📑https://t.co/sbVoSF2i8B
Both researchers have been featured in the ecosystem:
🎧 Listen to Erin Kissane on the https://t.co/u5Tcsm3dPT - podcast here: https://t.co/fnXc8z011H
- 👨‍🏫 and 2 talks Darius gave at FOSSY & XOXO here: https://t.co/6KVnFFC4pm & https://t.co/k9KehtVIw7

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Access to results and contact: Cutting through open-washing - https://t.co/Do4cymy9Lg // https://t.co/emh06dn1BM

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[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

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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

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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!

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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:

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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)...