This second interview is with Decidim, which is leading the charge in showing how Digital Commons can work at scale as infrastructure. Decidim is an open source participatory democracy platform that enables citizens, organisations, and governments to collaboratively propose, debate, and decide on policies and community initiatives.
On July 9th and 10th, the NGI Commons consortium convened in Milan for a landmark General Assembly, reaffirming its commitment…
On June 19th, NGI Commons kicked off the NGI Forum 2025 in Brussels. As the flagship event of the European…
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Digital Commons as a concept is sometimes perceived as fuzzy or redundant. A few months ago, CNRS Centre Internet et Société, a key consortium partner in the NGI Commons initiative released a compelling research report exploring the evolution, practices, and governance of Digital Commons.
NGI Commons consortium partners OpenForum Europe and Open Future, represented by Nicholas Gates and Aditya Singh respectively, attended the Digital…
The Matrix.org Foundation and Element are a pair of sister organisations which help steward the ecosystem for the Matrix protocol. They are paving the way in securing our way forward with encrypted messaging and providing an alternative to other messaging services.
On March 5th, 2025, from 13:30 to 15:00 CET, NGI Commons hosted a webinar on “Public Policies for Digital Commons”,…
On January 28th, the NGI Commons Consortium launched a new series of webinars. As the project enters its second year…
Over the last five years, there has been growing international recognition of Digital Commons and digital public goods (DPGs) terms as essential to a more equitable digital cooperation model that operates in service of the public interest.
At a time when the EU seeks to redefine its industrial strategy, this publication provides insights into the policies that have supported Digital Commons over the past 20 years. Unlike previous studies that have examined subsets of Digital Commons, such as open source software (OSS) or Open Data, this report offers a holistic perspective.
