The case for working and learning in the open
I’m about to make the case for learning in the open — for sharing your organization’s or your team’s thinking on your org’s blog and social media. What…
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Our upcoming RightsCon session
For the upcoming RightsCon, I’m co-hosting a joint session with Stiftung Mercator (who I work with) and European AI Fund (who I served as interim director for recently,…
Web3 Is Going Great, or Is It?
web3isgoinggreat.com is a pretty funny overview of the mishaps and shenanigans of the web3 / crypto scene and products. It shows just how much is going wrong in the…
Will Europe be able to enforce the new internet regulation frameworks DMA and DSA?
Europe is revamping internet regulation as we know it, with ambitious (if, in some areas, dangerously vague) new rights acts Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act…
A limit of openness: Controlling data flows
Openness has been a founding pillar of the web: open source, open data, free culture all have been driving forces for a thriving internet. Increasingly, we’re seeing the…
Billionaires won’t save the world (or anything else)
A bit of a rant: Twitter has been, by and large, a bit of a mess. Now billionaire and self-appointed genius/savior Elon Musk says he wants to fix…
Wrapping up my role at the European AI Fund
At the end of the March, I officially wrapped up my stint as interim Director of the European AI Fund. (Here’s my blog post announcing the new role…