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Advancing Open Source AI in India: Recommendations for Governments & Technology Developers
Bonn; Delhi; Noida (IN): Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All; NASSCOM (2026), 80 pp.
"[...] this brief positions open source AI as a strategic policy option within India’s evolving AI ecosystem. It unpacks the critical importance of openness for India’s digital future, crystallising the key opportunities it offers to governments and developers alike. In doing so, it also explore
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Rural Media Studies: A Global Perspective
Deep Insights
Bloomsbury Academic (2026), 288 pp.
"Rural Media Studies: A Global Perspective brings together scholars from across the world to examine how digital technologies, platform infrastructures, and evolving media practices are reshaping life beyond metropolitan centers. Although media scholarship has long privileged urban spaces, this volu
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Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2025), xiv, 278 pp.
"Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons delves into the complex issue of misinformation in our daily lives. The book synthesizes three scholarly traditions - everyday life, misinformation, and governing knowledge commons - to present 10 case studies of online and offline communities
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Rethinking Open Source in the Age of Foundational AI Models
Deep Insights
ICTworks, July 29 (2025)
"As the global artificial intelligence community wrestles with the tension between scale and accessibility, recent work by researchers at Lelapa AI offers a compelling example of what inclusive, efficient AI can look like. Around the world, the push to shrink massive language models into deployable,
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The Rise of the Network Commons: A History of Community Infrastructure
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2025), 107 pp.
Digital Literacy and Inclusion: Stories, Platforms, Communities
Cham: Springer (2024), xxi, 218 pp.
"More than a dozen experts provide deep insights in stories, research reports, and geographical studies of digital literacy and inclusion models, all from a multi-disciplinary perspective that includes engineering, social sciences, and education. Digital Literacy and Inclusion also highlights a show
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Community Network Readiness Assessment Handbook
Internet Society (2024), 92 pp.
Civic Coding: Empirische Erkenntnisse und Empfehlungen zur Unterstützung gemeinwohlorientierter KI
Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) (2023), 25 pp.
"Der Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) im Sinne des Gemeinwohls steckt noch in einer Erprobungsphase. Dieses Policy Paper präsentiert empirische Ergebnisse der Civic Coding-Studie, die die empirischen Befunde aus 20 Expert*innen-Interviews und zehn Fallstudien aus unterschiedlichen gemeinwo
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Der Kampf um das Internet: Wie Wikipedia, Mastodon und Co. die Tech-Giganten herausfordern
München: Beck (2023), 236 pp.
"Mehr Freiheit und mehr Demokratie waren die großen Versprechen des Internets. Doch inzwischen konzentriert sich die Macht bei einigen wenigen Tech-Giganten. Dabei bietet das Netz selbst eine Lösung, um sein ursprüngliches Freiheitsversprechen zu bewahren: die nichtkommerzielle digitale Gegenwelt
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Making a place for technology in communities: PlaceCal and the capabilities approach
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 6 (2023), pp. 1067-1086
"We discuss how a capability approach to information technology in neighbourhoods with low social capital can create embedded and sustainable Community Technology Partnerships (CTPs) that connect residents and institutions together, reducing barriers to social participation and collaborative action.
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Digital Civil Society: Access OpenTech
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2022), 52 pp.
"Both the challenges to a democratic internet and challenges to internet access make clear that good digital products accessible to us all are not natural byproducts of digitalisation. Instead, they require coordinated proactive and joint efforts by the global community in order to come into being.
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HF Radio: Guide for Facilitators and Community Installers
Philadelphia: Rhizomatica Communications (2022), 24 pp.
"The purpose of this guide is to share the basics of installing a solar-powered HF radio station. For some years now, Rhizomatica has been working to “modernize” HF technology, allowing the transmission and reception of digital information. HF technology offers many advantages for autonomous com
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Digital Archives and Collections: Creating Online Access to Cultural Heritage
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2021), viii, 239 pp.
"Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the content, structure and use of these online inventories? This book turns to India and Europe to answer this question. It explains how museums and archives
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The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Alogrithm Design
New York: Oxford University Press (2020), 218 pp.
"Understanding and improving the science behind the algorithms that run our lives is quickly becoming one of the most pressing issues of this century. Traditional solutions, such as laws, regulations and watchdog groups, have proven woefully inadequate, at best. Derived from the cutting-edge of scie
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Indigenous Languages: Zero to Digital. A Guide to Bring Your Language Online
Translation Commons (2019), 24 pp.
"This document describes how to enable mobile and desktop software to support a written language. The recommended implementation allows native speakers to communicate online, share knowledge and documents, and to use software and devices that would otherwise be inaccessible to them. The intended aud
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Socio-Informatics: A Practice-Based Perspective on the Design and Use of IT Artifacts
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018), xviii, 559 pp.
"The last 25 years have seen a small revolution in our approach to the understanding of new technology and information systems. It has become a founding assumption of computer-supported cooperative work and human–computer interaction that in the future, if not already, most computer applications w
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Asamblea de Migrantes Indígenas, 10 años de experiencia comunitaria y software libre
México, DF: Asamblea de Migrantes Indígenas de la Ciudad de México; Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2011), 151 pp.
"Las comunidades de migrantes indígenas han podido desarrollar, con su propia iniciativa y recursos, distintos proyectos de educación y formación intercultural, que van desde la formación de bandas filarmónicas y grupos de danza, hasta la operación de centros de producción radiofónica, en lo
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