Open Source Democracy

Pernille Tranberg

In this podcast series, we investigate the ethics and values behind open source and European alternatives to U.S. Big Tech.

Episoder

  1. Search and Chatbot Literacy

    28. JAN.

    Search and Chatbot Literacy

    Links for this episode: re-search.site openwebsearch.eu openwebindex.eu openwebsearch.eu/openwebsearch-eu-offers-entire-web-directory-curlie-org-as-free-download andersvisti.dk publicai.co (Apertus)

    26 min.
  2. Open Source Can Disrupt Big Tech’s Grip on The Public Sector

    19. JAN.

    Open Source Can Disrupt Big Tech’s Grip on The Public Sector

    Open Source Democracy

    21 min.
  3. Generative AI Comes With Openwashing

    19.12.2025

    Generative AI Comes With Openwashing

    Some companies market their generative AI models as open source when they are not open about what data they have used for training them. One such example is Meta’s Llama. It is only open weight. But we are seeing some truly open source generative AI models coming up. Listen to our podcast. And find more here: dataethics.eu/opensource Shownotes for this episode Paper on open washing: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3630106.3659005 Intellectual Property Cases re GenAI mishcon.com/generative-ai-intellectual-property-cases-and-policy-tracker Settlement between Antropic and book publishers: wizcase.com/news/anthropic-wins-ruling-in-copyright-lawsuit Data Sheets for Data Sets (2021), Timnit Gebru et al arxiv.org/pdf/1803.09010 German win on music rights: euronews.com/next/2025/11/11/openai-chatbots-cannot-use-song-lyrics-without-paying-german-court-rules-in-landmark-trial A European Open Source Index digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/europes-open-source-ai-landscape-lever-innovation-and-sovereignty Tilde – a european open source foundation language model tilde.ai/tildeopen-llm/ A new report on the European Open-Source AI Landscape reveals where the EU stands today and how scaling adoption of Open Source AI can boost competitiveness and strengthen digital sovereignty. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/europes-open-source-ai-landscape-lever-innovation-and-sovereignty The Model Openness Framework arxiv.org/pdf/2403.13784

    21 min.
  4. Open Street Map is For the People

    17.11.2025

    Open Street Map is For the People

    We’re at Cafe Mellemrummet at Nørrebro in Copenhagen to follow mappers updating OpenStreetMap and to talk to Ove Larsen and Søren Johannessen about their voluntary work. Shownotes for this episode Show me the way, where the mappers can see their updates live StreetComplete, Open Street Maps inspection app OpenStreetMap.org Every Door, OSM editor PhD project Processes Behind Surfaces: Mobilities and Practices of the Danish OpenStreetMap Community Map for people in need OSM examples OpenStreetMap Copenhagen on Mastodon

    14 min.
  5. What is Open Source, the History and Progress

    21.10.2025

    What is Open Source, the History and Progress

    Shownotes for this episode: Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) European Commission’s strategic roadmap on open source. Renée Ridgway’s paper will be added here, once published.

    29 min.
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Om

In this podcast series, we investigate the ethics and values behind open source and European alternatives to U.S. Big Tech.

Oplysninger

  • Skaber
    Pernille Tranberg
  • Aktive år
    2025 - 2026
  • Episoder
    5
  • Vurdering
    Ikke anstødeligt
  • Websted for serie
    Open Source Democracy