From Open Data to Sustainable Data Commons

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flex-col justify-center gap-2 mb-10"><a href="https://okfn-org.translate.goog/en/projects/sustainable-data-commons/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto#outcomes" class="btn-pill"> Outcomes </a> <a href="https://okfn-org.translate.goog/en/projects/sustainable-data-commons/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto#legaltools" class="btn-pill"> Current Legal Tools </a> <a href="https://okfn-org.translate.goog/en/projects/sustainable-data-commons/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto#team" class="btn-pill"> Team </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect -tighten-2 mb-20"> <div class="sect__content"> <div class="block-txt"> <h2><strong>Better governance mechanisms and legal tools to grow and sustain the data commons</strong></h2> <p>Today, we lack a globally validated social, technical and legal infrastructure necessary for the sustainable production and inclusive reuse of a data commons. Even if there is a willingness to share data, <strong>the current tools do not provide models for sustainable, inclusive, regenerative, and ethical data commons</strong>. Many are <em>no longer willing to share unconditionally</em> after seeing works they shared liberally or even placed in the public domain used for purposes opposed to their ethics or effectively contributing to the erosion of fundamental rights. </p> <p>Offering options now to share and grow the data commons is imperative to opening the possibilities high-quality data sets bring to small enterprises, researchers, social innovators, artists, scientists, and society in general. </p> <p>For that purpose, the <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://cis.cnrs.fr/en/" target="_blank">Centre for Internet and Society at CNRS</a> and the <a href="https://okfn-org.translate.goog/en/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto" target="_self">Open Knowledge Foundation</a> are joining efforts to open a collaborative process, building consensus and interoperability across many parallel efforts, that will lead to: </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect -tighten-1 mb-20"> <div class="sect__content"> <div class="grid md:grid-cols-4 gap-10 md:gap-3">  <div class="feature-item -center"> <figure class="flex items-center justify-center md:aspect-[272/227]"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/feature_block/images/data.png" alt=""> </figure><strong class="title">Interoperable Legal Tools </strong> <span class="description">To enable conditional data sharing that reflects the values of and addresses the spectrum of concerns of people and communities. </span> </div>  <div class="feature-item -center"> <figure class="flex items-center justify-center md:aspect-[272/227]"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/feature_block/images/case-study.png" alt=""> </figure><strong class="title">Governance Tools </strong> <span class="description">Including a collective management mechanism based on Data Trust, community-led governance methodologies, and practical guides adapted to communities' needs, economic models, and social and ecological values. </span> </div>  <div class="feature-item -center"> <figure class="flex items-center justify-center md:aspect-[272/227]"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/feature_block/images/tools.png" alt=""> </figure><strong class="title">Technical Tools </strong> <span class="description">Will be needed so that the data can be effectively managed and reused as a commons. This will include user interfaces, an icon generator, and metadata. </span> </div>  <div class="feature-item -center"> <figure class="flex items-center justify-center md:aspect-[272/227]"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/feature_block/images/collaboration.png" alt=""> </figure><strong class="title">Ecosystem Strengthening </strong> <span class="description">In addition to rewriting OKFN Open Data Commons licences, governance and revenue-sharing mechanisms will allow communities to implement their own models and interact with other communities and their datasets. </span> </div> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="sect -tighten-2 sect-highlights mb-20"> <div class="sect__content"> <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://blog.okfn.org/2024/10/23/open-data-commons-in-the-age-of-ai-and-big-data/" class="highlight sm:text-white"> <figure class="img-set "> <div class="image"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/video/images/cpdp-768x355.jpg" alt="" title=""> </div> <figcaption class="text"><span class="tag">Blog</span> <strong class="title">Open Data Commons in the age of AI and Big Data</strong> <span class="link-arrow-curved"> By Ramya Chandrasekhar</span> </figcaption> </figure></a>  </div> </div> <div class="headline -tighten-1 text-center False mb-20"> <h1 class="col-span-full px-3 py-5 font-bold text-center text-h1"><a id="outcomes"> <p>Project Outcomes</p></a></h1> </div> <div class="sect -tighten-2 mb-20"> <div class="sect__content"> <div class="block-txt"> <p>We will advance access to knowledge, information, and data, data literacy, the development of tools for reproducible research, and the establishment of an infrastructure and legal framework for sustainable data commons. Both partners are established leaders with 20 years of experience in open licensing, advocacy, and interdisciplinary backgrounds. The team members are already working on projects with communities.</p> <p>This will result in <strong>a Network of Connected Communities</strong> using the tools, making the effort sustainable, and an <strong>Interoperable Data Ecosystem</strong> with value sharing, all resulting in <strong>sustainable, ethical, inclusive, generative data commons</strong>.</p> <p>We will achieve social, economic and legal sustainability of open data commons, instead of extraction and value appropriation from open data.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="headline -tighten-1 text-center False mb-20"> <h1 class="col-span-full px-3 py-5 font-bold text-center text-h1"><a id="legaltools"> <p>Current Legal Tools</p></a></h1> </div> <div class="sect -tighten-1 mb-20"> <div class="sect__content"> <div class="grid md:grid-cols-2 gap-10 md:gap-3">  <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://opendefinition.org/" class="feature-item"> <figure class=""><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/feature_block/images/opendefinition-landscape-full-1x.png" alt=""> </figure><span class="description">The Open Definition gives full details on the requirements for open data and content. Open data are the building blocks of open knowledge. Open knowledge is what open data becomes when it's useful, usable and used.</span> <em class="link-arrow-curved"> Learn more </em> </a>   <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://opendatacommons.org/" class="feature-item"> <figure class=""><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/feature_block/images/opendatacommons-landscape-full-1x.png" alt=""> </figure><span class="description">To ensure different open datasets are "interoperable" and therefore do form a commons, we need licensing to reduce uncertainty. That's why we created the Open Data Commons: a set of conformant licenses that deliver clarity and simplicity.</span> <em class="link-arrow-curved"> Learn more </em> </a>  </div> </div> </div> <div class="headline -tighten-1 text-center False mb-20"> <h1 class="col-span-full px-3 py-5 font-bold text-center text-h1"><a id="team"> <p>Team</p></a></h1> </div> <div class="card-person mb-20 " id="dr-melanie-dulong-de-rosnay"> <div class="card-person__content"> <div class="intro"> <div class="image flex-shrink-0"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/card_person/photos/melanie-dulong-290121.png" alt="Dr Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay"> </div> <div class="content"> <h2 class="name">Dr Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay</h2> <div class="font-mono block-txt"><span class="position">SUDACO co-PI; Research professor, director, CIS-CNRS</span> <a href="mailto:melanie.dulong@cnrs.fr?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto" class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-3"> <img src="/assets/images/icons/envelope.svg"> melanie.dulong@cnrs.fr </a> <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://twitter.com/melanieddr" class="flex items-center gap-2"> <img src="/assets/images/icons/twitter.svg"> @melanieddr </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block-txt"> <p>PhD in law, is a permanent researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) since 2010 and director of the Center for Internet and Society of CNRS (UPR 2000) which she co-founded with Francesca Musiani in 2019. Since 2020, she has also been directing the national research network on Internet, AI and Society (GDR 2091) which structures thematically the community.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="card-person mb-20 " id="renata-avila"> <div class="card-person__content"> <div class="intro"> <div class="image flex-shrink-0"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/card_person/photos/Renata.png" alt="Renata Ávila"> </div> <div class="content"> <h2 class="name">Renata Ávila</h2> <div class="font-mono block-txt"><span class="position">CEO, OKFN</span> <a href="mailto:renata.avila@okfn.org?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto" class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-3"> <img src="/assets/images/icons/envelope.svg"> renata.avila@okfn.org </a> <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://twitter.com/avilarenata" class="flex items-center gap-2"> <img src="/assets/images/icons/twitter.svg"> @avilarenata </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block-txt"> <p>Renata Avila is an international human rights and technology lawyer and openness advocate. She is helping individuals and organisations access and use data to take action on the most pressing social problems, as well as preserving and enhancing human rights through open standards, policy and advocacy. In her previous practice, focused in strategic litigation for access to information and access to justice, she represented high profile human rights advocates, including Nobel Peace Prize Rigoberta Menchu Tum. A former fellow and affiliate of the Stanford Institute of Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence, she is currently associated with the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS, France. She participates on the boards of several organisations, including Open Future, the Center for the Advancement of Infrastructural Imagination and the Just Net Coalition. She co-founded the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms and the Progressive International. She has co-authored two books and contributed chapters to several others, and regularly contributes to different publications in English and Spanish.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="card-person mb-20 " id="dr-antonios-broumas"> <div class="card-person__content"> <div class="intro"> <div class="image flex-shrink-0"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/card_person/photos/ey-antonios-broumas-v2.png" alt="Dr Antonios Broumas"> </div> <div class="content"> <h2 class="name">Dr Antonios Broumas</h2> <div class="font-mono block-txt"><span class="position">Attorney at law</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block-txt"> <p>Antonios is a digital law Manager at the Platis – Anastassiadis & Associates Law Partnership, associated with EY Greece, member of the EY Law network, since 2017. He has more than a decade of practical experience in electronic communications and media law, IT and e-commerce law, intellectual property law, cybercrime law, data protection and confidentiality of communications law.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="card-person mb-20 " id="dr-freyja-van-den-boom"> <div class="card-person__content"> <div class="intro"> <div class="image flex-shrink-0"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/card_person/photos/freyja.png" alt="Dr Freyja van den Boom"> </div> <div class="content"> <h2 class="name">Dr Freyja van den Boom</h2> <div class="font-mono block-txt"><span class="position">Postdoctoral researcher in law, CNRS @Create, Descartes project</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block-txt"> <p>Dr. Freyja van den Boom is a cross disciplinary researcher focussing on the socio-legal and ethical impact in societies of disruptive technologies including AI and Data based innovations. They obtained their PhD with a dissertation titled “Driven by Digital Innovations: Regulating In-vehicle Data for Telematics Insurance in Europe,”. They received an M.Sc. in Sociology of Law and an M.A. and B.A in European and International Law from Tilburg University, Netherlands. Their research includes projects on inclusive AI futures, anticipatory governance, open science, and data sovereignty. They have collaborated, presented, published and performed both their academic and artistic works and speculative designs.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="card-person mb-20 " id="dr-valerian-guillier"> <div class="card-person__content"> <div class="intro"> <div class="image flex-shrink-0"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/card_person/photos/valerian-guillier.png" alt="Dr Valérian Guillier"> </div> <div class="content"> <h2 class="name">Dr Valérian Guillier</h2> <div class="font-mono block-txt"><span class="position">Postdoctoral researcher, CIS CNRS, NGI Commons project</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block-txt"> <p>Valérian Guillier conducted his PhD research between 2015 and 2023 at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, focusing on cultural commons. For this research, he held a doctoral contract from Labex Arts-H2H. Additionally, from 2020 to 2022, Valérian served as an ATER (Attaché temporaire d’enseignement et de recherche) at Aix-Marseille University, teaching courses on cultural mediation in the arts.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="card-person mb-20 " id="ramya-chandrasekhar"> <div class="card-person__content"> <div class="intro"> <div class="image flex-shrink-0"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/card_person/photos/ramya-chandrasekhar.png" alt="Ramya Chandrasekhar"> </div> <div class="content"> <h2 class="name">Ramya Chandrasekhar</h2> <div class="font-mono block-txt"><span class="position">Researcher in law, CIS-CNRS, ODECO project</span> <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=auto&u=https://twitter.com/chandra_rums" class="flex items-center gap-2"> <img src="/assets/images/icons/twitter.svg"> @chandra_rums </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block-txt"> <p>Lawyer and researcher. She is working on the Open Data Ecosystem (ODECO) Project – a 4-year Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network initiative (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020). Her focus areas are legal and governance mechanisms for open non-government data. In terms of legal mechanisms, Ramya’s will study licensing models for open non-government data. In this piece of her research, she will draw from CNRS’ previous work on data commons as well as licensing developments from the open source community.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="card-person mb-20 " id="lucas-pretti"> <div class="card-person__content"> <div class="intro"> <div class="image flex-shrink-0"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/django-statics-okf-website-production/card_person/photos/Lucas.png" alt="Lucas Pretti"> </div> <div class="content"> <h2 class="name">Lucas Pretti</h2> <div class="font-mono block-txt"><span class="position">Communications & Advocacy Director, OKFN</span> <a href="mailto:lucas.pretti@okfn.org?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=auto" class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-3"> <img src="/assets/images/icons/envelope.svg"> lucas.pretti@okfn.org </a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="block-txt"> <p>Lucas is a journalist, researcher, openness advocate and digital activist who is passionate about promoting the adoption of open standards, building open infrastructure for communities, and forming broad coalitions to drive systemic change. 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