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Mechanisms that introduce reciprocity and make the life-cycle circular and regenerative, need to be part of data and AI governance. https://opensource.org/datagovernance #opensourceai

Commons-based approaches balance public interest, economic growth and respect for fundamental rights. https://opensource.org/datagovernance #opensourceai

The concept of data commons and the various data governance models stemming from it have been increasingly prominent in debates about data governance. https://opensource.org/datagovernance #opensourceai

Greater care for data governance and acknowledgment that it should be the foundation of AI governance will help alleviate concerns over value extraction and exploitation related to data use. https://opensource.org/datagovernance

Open sharing of various resources needs to go hand in hand with greater attention placed on data quality, data governance, responsible sharing and respect and protection for various rights in data. https://opensource.org/datagovernance

Preservation of the knowledge commons and acknowledgment of various social aspects of data generation become key issues that the Open Source AI development ecosystem needs to pay attention to. https://opensource.org/datagovernance

The emergence of AI systems and the growing awareness of how they were trained on the digital commons are causing some to re-evaluate the value of open sharing. https://opensource.org/datagovernance #opensourceai

The ultimate goal is to support a future where data empowers various communities that create and own the data and not just corporations. https://opensource.org/datagovernance #opensourceai

Get ready to vote for OSI’s board of directors in 2025 https://opensource.org/blog/get-ready-to-vote-for-osis-board-of-directors-in-2025 #OpenSource

Web scraping for AI can be viewed as a new type of extraction and exploitation, at a massive scale, of global knowledge and cultural commons. https://opensource.org/datagovernance #opensourceai

Open Source AI has the potential to drive innovation, enhance transparency, and promote equity in the AI landscape. https://opensource.org/datagovernance #opensourceai

Data commons acknowledges a broad range of social aspects of data generation and associated legal frictions and deploying mechanisms other than licenses to offer adequate governance. https://opensource.org/datagovernance

Data commons serves the purpose of increased data sharing, by making various types of data easier to use, by increasing the quality of datasets and by ensuring that more data is available openly. https://opensource.org/datagovernance

The current AI ecosystem often prioritizes the needs of developers and large corporations over other stakeholders, such as data contributors, affected communities, and public-interest organizations. https://opensource.org/datagovernance

The OSI board of directors is renewing 3 of its seats with an open election process among its full individual members and affiliates. https://opensource.org/blog/osis-board-of-directors-in-2025-details-about-the-elections #OpenSource

The keynote from Simon Phipps at the Open Source Experience conference held in Paris last month is now available. Learn more about the Open Source AI Definition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZ_pm3A9I4

As 2024 draws to a close, the OSI reflects on an eventful year marked by significant achievements in advocating for Open Source principles in policy and standards development worldwide. https://opensource.org/blog/2024-end-of-year-review-policy-and-standards #OpenSource

At the Linux Foundation Member Summit, Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the OSI, presented The Open Source AI Definition 1.0 process:

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Improving Open Source security with the new GitHub Secure Open Source Fund https://opensource.org/blog/improving-open-source-security-with-the-new-github-secure-open-source-fund #OpenSource

Give Your Input on the State of Open Source Survey https://opensource.org/blog/give-your-input-on-the-state-of-open-source-survey #OpenSource