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Wikimedia’s contribution to a free and healthy Internet is not limited to its knowledge output — it also counts as a civic, democratic space.

dealing with bad actors and reducing harm is not the same as in -centivizing good actors to establish best practices and good dataset governance.

cases of obvious harm should be distinguished from those in which there is a sense of potential harm, or the issue is one of the unexpected uses

First, there is the ownership and control over the use of assets created on and by these platforms. In most cases, the terms and conditions that we agree to when using digital platforms – or indeed the licences that we adopt – grant both platform owners and third parties permission to reuse our assets in ways that may technically meet licensing... See more

However they identify, when they show up at MozFest and as they stay connected through the year, they are a group of people rolling up their sleeves and working on something roughly akin to a common agenda. Which is really all a social movement is.

A lot of what’s built the World Wide Web in the open information infrastructure that we understand is just actually embedded in a few laws that basically make it so it can be user originated content that can be then hosted on other companies’ websites without having them have liability. As long as, “Hey, we’re in copyright infringement,” if they... See more

In its opinion on the case from 2021 , Creative Commons acknowledged that “The legal uncertainty caused by ethical concerns around AI, the lack of transparency of AI algorithms, and the patterns of privatization and enclosure of AI outputs, all together constitute yet another obstacle to better sharing. 4

• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows: This is a classic book on systems theory that provides a great introduction to the concept.


• The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi: This book offers a unified view of life, integrating life's biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions.


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