AI Now Institute has published a new collection of essays setting out to inform Europe’s industrial policy for AI. As Europe ponders pouring billions of public funds into AI, this collection attempts to reorient the EU’s industrial policy away from its current trajectory of further…
Cross-posting from the Green Web Foundation blog: We’re proud to share our report Critical Dependencies: How power consolidation of digital infrastructures threatens democracies—and what we can do about it. It’s written to help funders who want to better understand how to strengthen the public’s interest…
The fourth issue of Branch Magazine is dedicated to the theme Open Climate. The co-editors of this issue of Branch Magazine met on a caravan. Inspired by the routes and exchanges of the old trading caravans, we have been traveling at our own time and…
In October 2021, Mozilla, the Ford Foundation and Ariadne kicked off a new research project exploring how digital rights and climate justice intersect. In April 2022, we convened 30 digital rights funders interested in applying a climate lens to their work. Together in Lille, France…
Republished from Branch Magazine: Issue 3. The internet—essential to modern life and also the world’s largest coal-powered machine. Like the shipping industry, packets zigzag across the globe and connect billions of people through a colossal distributed infrastructure we rarely see until it chokes, like a…