Socio-technical trailblazer. I help civil society organisations use the internet for good: connecting people, processes, data, and technology.
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New on Rolf's events watch list: AI Summit Brainport, Nov 02, 2023 Human-Centered AI: Balancing Technology and Humanity <a href="https://aisummitbrainport.nl/en/">https://aisummitbrainport.nl/en/</a>
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New on Rolf's events watch list: 5th Public Participation and Deliberative Democracy Festival, Jun 12, 2024 focus on the engagement of citizens in environmental issues <a href="https://cop-demos.jrc.ec.europa.eu/blog/5th-public-participation-and-deliberative-democracy-festival">https://cop-demos.jrc.ec.europa.eu/blog/5th-public-participation-and-deliberative-democracy-festival</a>
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San Francisco, it's been a while… Meeting with the "democratic inputs to AI" projects at OpenAI this week.
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New on Rolf's events watch list: Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa 2023, Sep 27, 2023 Growing the #InternetFreedom Africa Community <a href="https://internetfreedom.africa/">https://internetfreedom.africa/</a>
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New on Rolf's events watch list: Data for Policy 2024, Jul 09, 2024 Decoding the Future: Trustworthy Governance with AI? #dataforpolicy2024<br><a href="https://dataforpolicy.org/data-for-policy-2024/">https://dataforpolicy.org/data-for-policy-2024/</a>
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Mozilla research grants to "answer questions like: How does the community understand and refer to AI? Is AI shifting power and/or meeting people’s needs? Does data collection and machine learning present more of a local threat or a local opportunity? And, What opportunities are there to engage with technology builders or regulators on these threats…
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How can society determine the values and boundaries that AI should be aligned with? #OpenAI (ChatGPT) asked for proposals to research this: "Democratic inputs to AI". Via @ademoor, I joined a (mostly Dutch) proposal. Last week, we had an inspiring kick-off with the teams of OpenAI and the other 9 selected projects. Looking forward to…
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Een mooie stap naar een nieuwe online infrastructuur: social media op basis van burgerzin i.p.v. consumentisme. https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/nieuws/mastodon-server-overheid-in-gebruik-bij-eerste-organisaties/
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The Dutch government joined the fediverse. For now a pilot, hopefully soon a success. https://social.overheid.nl/@forumstandaardisatie/110706324752154417
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2022: Twitter2023: Reddit Looking forward to next week's #PublicSpaces conference, "For a Collective Internet": how can we organise civic online communities and AI based on public values and democratic principles? https://conference.publicspaces.net/