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Will DeepSeek democratise AI?

Will DeepSeek be a game changer like ChatGPT was? The benefits and the public release of their models could level the playing field, as Mike Pound of the University of Nottingham argues in this Computerphile video. But will it be able to challenge the current quasi-monopoly, and democratise AI? And how accurate are the DeepSeek claims anyway?

AI for participatory urban planning

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On Thursday, the Rebooting democracy in the age of AI lecture series will continue with a conversation on AI for participatory planning, looking at the UrbanistaAI platform: a way to visually co-create the use of urban spaces.

Previous lectures in the series have featured great presentations and conversations at the forefront of AI for civic use, exploring ways it may impact democratic society, and how it may be governed.

This session may look a bit more on planning how to use AI-based tools in concrete processes. It will be great input to combine with our own experiences developing a platform for citizen dialogues.

Can IATI benefit from XBRL’s experiences?

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xbrl-logo.png Over the last weeks, I started exploring XBRL, the eXtensible Business Reporting Language. Its purpose is “ to improve the accountability and transparency of business performance globally, by providing the open data exchange standard for business reporting.

iati-logo.png There are clear parallels with IATI, the International Aid Transparency Initiative, the open data exchange standard for development and aid activities I have been working on.

In essence, the data collectors benefit more than the data publishers in both cases: what can we learn?

Around the web, again: interesting events

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Time to get back into the habit of capturing things on my website… First up: my calendar watch list and some events.

I’ve been keeping an “Open Dev” calendar with events related to open development and online civic space (data, standards, ethics, digital rights, and so on). I’m broadening the scope a bit to include more technical events as well. It’s “Rolf’s events watch list” now.

Webmaster spam

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It’s heart-warming to get emails from people who read one of my blog posts of over a decade ago, and took the effort to write to me that their product is missing, or that they have a nice post about something too.

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A win-win!

But wait, why is there an “unsubscibe” link under your message?