From WiFi4EU to public connectivity infrastructure that remains open, controllable and sustainable Municipal and community wireless networks are no longer an experimental technology used by a small number of networking enthusiasts. They have become essential digital infrastructure for public squares, libraries, schools, cultural venues, health centres, tourist areas and remote communities. The European WiFi4EU initiative […]
Artificial intelligence is entering public administration, healthcare, education, local government and state security services. The central question is not whether public institutions will use AI. They already will. The real question is who will control the infrastructure, the data, the models, the logs and the rules of use. Public authorities can either build internal capacity […]
The Green and Sovereign Choice for Greece and Europe Europe’s artificial intelligence strategy stands at a structural inflection point. Dependence on hyperscale cloud infrastructures located outside the European Union increases systemic vendor lock-in, geopolitical exposure, and regulatory vulnerability. Simultaneously, the accelerating energy consumption of large AI infrastructures threatens Europe’s sustainability commitments and long-term competitiveness. The […]
Scientific reasons why uncritical LLM adoption in government is unsafe Michael Wooldridge’s Royal Society lecture makes a crucial point for public policy: today’s large language models are not “reasoning minds” but probabilistic next-token predictors. They generate fluent text without an internal notion of truth, accountability, or epistemic humility. This design reality matters most in the […]
Scientific Arguments Against Uncritical Deployment in the Public Sector Artificial Intelligence is frequently presented as a neutral instrument of modernization within public administration. Claims of efficiency and cost reduction dominate policy discourse. Yet a growing body of scientific research demonstrates that uncritical deployment of AI systems in public institutions poses structural risks to democratic governance, […]
There are two processes in the public sphere that we all depend on but that few of us really understand. And what’s worse is that both are in trouble. The first is the process of funding public projects. Public financing often involves a mix of taxation and the issuance of bonds or federal grantmaking to […]
2015 was a year of progress for government transparency — however, there’s still much work to be done. As 2015 winds to a close, we can look back on a year of success stories and failures when it comes to transparency in government. At the start of the year, the federal government began releasing its […]
No matter who wins the 2016 election, they must display a commitment to an open government. (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Last month, we shared our thoughts on the issue of money in politics and posed six questions for those running for president in 2016. Since then, we’ve been happy to see several campaigns release plans […]
In a historic decision, the Indian Government has adopted open source for its public offices. With acclaimed Indian organizations like C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) and IIT Chennai working on Debian based distro BOSS Linux and states like Tamil Nadu already advocating open source for a while, this was inevitable. The policy has been […]
The City of Vienna was the first public agency in a German speaking country to develop an Open Government Initative and to commit itself to the concept of Open Data – an open and transparent system that makes city data available to citizens for their further use. Vienna’s first Open Data catalogue has been presented […]