Little Detritus
Gregor "Little Detritus" Bransky has been involved in public digital infrastructure policies for nearly a decade. He started in 2017 as a member of Freifunk Aachen, Aachens open wireless mesh community, and contributed to the discussion around WiFi4EU.
In March 2020, he became co-team lead of "wir-bleiben-liquid.de", one of the 20 winning teams of the #WirVsVirus Hackathon organized by the German government. The team is also amongst the winner teams of the #EUvsVirus Hackathon.
Since March 2021, Gregor has been a founding member and acting board member for policy and press at Innovationverbund Öffentliche Gesundheit e.V., a civic-tech project dedicated to building public digital infrastructures that empower society.
Beitrag
While EU member states provide ample legal frameworks for public benefit organizations [1], there is currently no established legal pathway for these organizations to assume stewardship of digital commons.
We argue that the UN concept of digital public goods [2] and the legal concept of stewardship in the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) [3] should enable reliable maintenance of digital infrastructures through public benefit organizations.
This talk will explore what constitutes digital commons— such as code, datasets, open content, AI models, ans services (e.g., Let’s Encrypt, Mastodon) — and how public benefit stewardship of these commons could be structured to ensure trust and reliability for them to serve as digital infrastructure.
[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2023/753422/IPOL_STU(2023)753422_EN.pdf
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_public_goods
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAHGb-X38L4&t=98