Publicpolicy September 2024

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EU Public Sector Information Directive as a tool for content liberation
by Mathias Schindler 12 May '25

12 May '25

Hi everyone. Some might remember the 2019 recast of the EU PSI Directive (which is now also called Open Data Directive) which has a nice round number EU/2019/1024 (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/1024/oj). As a directive, it has been transposed in EU member states and is also transposed/about to be transposed into the EFTA states. I was involved in the 2019 recast as a member of the staff of MEP Felix Reda who wrote the opinion in the IMCO committee of the European Parliament (the leading committee was ITRE: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-8-2018-0438_EN.html#_sectio… ) The Directive has both a general principle on the reuse of content but also paragraph about how to process requests for re-use. Germany transposed the PSI-OD-Directive into the "Datennutzungsgesetz" in 2021 but left out the processing part for requests for re-use. I spoke to a civil servant in the responsible ministry who was involved in the drafting process and she stated that this was by design. Since the "general principle" on re-use applies, there would be no use for requests any more. This idea has been rejected by academic literature which still claims that the possibility for requests remain embedded in the law Long story short: After reading the literature, the directive and the law, I believe that Germany has introduced a law that would allow liberating content for re-use under license terms compatible with Wikimedia projects. For a few weeks now, I have put this theory to the test and I have applied for usage rights for various government documents, pictures etc. This has been largely successful, but not without hickups. People in the administration are usually confused by these requests and it takes them a while to process them. I would be interested to learn if anyone else in any other EU/EFTA state has ever used the PSI-OD-Directive (and the transposed law) to force government entities to release content under a free license. This was the most concise way of describing this for me. I left out many details in order to not turn this into a long paper. I am happy to elaborate on details if requested. Mathias (there are some exceptions in the directive. GLAM institutions are not fully within the scope of all parts of the directive and it is not as simple to simply go to a museum or a library and tell them to give you a license for stuff they own. Public broadcasting it also out of scope)

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Political positions on EU elections by F5 alliance (including WMDE)
by Lilli Iliev 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

Hello everyone, As Wikimedia Deutschland, we have been part of the *"Bündnis F5" - F5 Alliance for digital policy for the common good <https://buendnis-f5.de/>* since 2021. We founded this digital policy alliance with AlgorithmWatch, Society for civic rights, Open Knolwedge Foundation Deutschland and Reporters Without Borders to jointly develop more political weight for our shared objectives. The core of our work is a structured dialog with policymakers on digital policy issues, such as framework conditions for free access to information, privacy, open data, transparency and hate speech online. As alliance F5, we have compiled political positions on the EU elections. They show what measures and laws we believe are needed to realize the vision of an open, free, reliable, sustainable and secure internet. The positions were sent to EU candidates and selected officials, such as European and international digital policy officers, as well as advertised on social media and form the basis for related discussions. *You can find them on Wikimedia Commons here:* Political positions on the EU elections (English) <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Positions_of_the_F5_alliance_on_the…> Political positions on the EU elections (German) <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Positionen_des_B%C3%BCndnis_F5_zur_…> ...and as pdf attached. *The central points of our demands paper are:* - Platforms: Regulate and restructure - Artificial intelligence: Fair and sustainable - Open source software & open hardware: Foundation of the future - Strengthen privacy, protect journalists - Digital Knowledge Act: A new era of free knowledge Wikimedia has focused on the 5th point of the Digital Knowledge Act, in line with the demands of Wikimedia Europe. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions on this. A recommendation in this context: Last week, re:publica <https://re-publica.com/de>, Europe's largest conference on digital rights, took place in Berlin. We were lucky enough to have Rebecca MacKinnon there to discuss the Global Digital Compact on a high-level panel: - Renata Dwan (Special Adviser Office of the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology), Rebecca MacKinnon (Vice President, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation), Jens Matthias Lorentz (Head of Digital Politics and AI in Foreign Policy Group, Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Jeanette Hofmann (Director at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and Professor of Internet Policy): *Who cares about international digital policy? What do we expect from the UN Global Digital Compact 2024 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxMmt4XCYro> (English)* best regards Lilli & team politics and public sector at WMDE -- Lilli Iliev *(sie)* Leitung Politik und öffentlicher Sektor head of public policy and public sector @lilliiliev@eupolicy.social ----------------------------- Bleiben Sie auf dem neuesten Stand! Aktuelle Nachrichten und spannende Geschichten rund um Wikimedia, Wikipedia und Freies Wissen im Newsletter: Zur Anmeldung <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>. ------------------------------ Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Charlottenburg, VR 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. Geschäftsführende Vorstände: Franziska Heine, Dr. Christian Humborg.

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[Sept 21] Wikimedia at the UN! Our plan for the Summit of the Future & recap call
by Franziska Putz 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

Dear friends, The Wikimedia movement is showing up as a phenomenal force next week (Sept. 20 - 27) at the United Nations in New York City. This email provides an overview of how our movement will be represented, what our goals are, and how you can support us to achieve those goals. Our main objective is to create an internet which upholds human rights and protects community-led spaces online. We’ll do so by engaging in the final process of implementing the Global Digital Compact <https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future/global-digital-compact>and by hosting an event <https://wikimediafoundation.org/advocacy/power-of-the-commons-unga-event/> that highlights the importance of Digital Public Goods like Wikipedia. The member states will be asked to vote on the Global Digital Compact in the General Assembly at the Summit of the Future. ____ WIKIMEDIA EVENT @ SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE ACTION DAYS (Sept. 20 - 21) - What: The Summit of the Future Action Days <https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future/action-days#:~:text=20%20%E2%80%….> exist to provide additional opportunities for engagement across civil society, academia, and the private sector. The focus is on multistakeholder partnerships, emphasizing the need for collective action to build a more inclusive and networked multilateral system. - Wikimedia is hosting an official side event: “The Power of the Commons: Digital Public Goods for a More Secure, Inclusive, and Resilient World.” <https://wikimediafoundation.org/advocacy/power-of-the-commons-unga-event/> The event is on Sept. 21 @ 11:15 - 12:30 PM EDT. This is a massive win for us and it came from real teamwork! It is co-sponsored by the UN Member State Delegations of Germany, Mexico, and Poland, and the UN Office of the Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology <https://www.un.org/techenvoy/>, as well as the organizations Access Now <https://www.accessnow.org/>, TUM Think Tank <https://tumthinktank.de/>, Network of Centers <https://networkofcenters.net/>, Wikimedia Deutschland <https://www.wikimedia.de/>, Wikimedia Czech Republic <https://www.wikimedia.cz/en/>, Wikimedia Polska <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Polska>, Wikimedia UK <https://wikimedia.org.uk/>, and Wikimedia Europe <https://wikimedia.brussels/>. - 👉 How you can help: Amplify the event by sharing our social media posts and event details ahead of time. Here’s our social media toolkit <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lXSdfbEWudb06jEvpomWxIINUQAr-k1GADus2tA…>. Unfortunately registration has closed for in person participation, but we will share a link to follow the livestream once available. GLOBAL DIGITAL COMPACT DISCUSSION @ SUMMIT OF THE FUTURE (Sept. 22 - 23) - What: The Summit of the Future <https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future> exists to reaffirm commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) <https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/> while laying the foundations for a reinvigorated multilateral system. The Summit will result in a negotiated Pact for the Future and Global Digital Compact. GDC CAMPAIGN CLOSING DEBRIEF CALL (Oct. 17) - Details: Thursday, October 17th @ 14:00 - 15:30 UTC (check local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1729173600>). Join Zoom Meeting https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/81192370706 Meeting ID: 811 9237 0706 - Why: The GDC has been an important example of how we collaborate as a movement to engage policymakers. We want to take our learnings from this to apply to our future advocacy efforts. Help us capture our successes to replicate and challenges to solve on a debrief call. - What: 90-minute Zoom call in which we will recap what happened at UNGA and have a capacity building portion. For the UNGA recap, we will cover how our messaging landed, what corridor conversations were had, and what we’re taking forward from this experience). We will take the GDC campaign as a case study to review how to develop a campaign strategy around a specific event. - Who: The call will be open to all members of the advocacy network so we can continue to learn from each other. The call will be recorded - you can email Ziski Putz for access to the recording. __ Thank you in advance for your support! All the best, Ziski Franziska Putz (she/her) Senior Movement Advocacy Manager Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation Fputz(a)wikimedia.org UTC Timezone

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European Policy Monitoring Report - September 2024
by Dimi Dimitrov 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

Hello! The new Commission structure and designated Commissioners have been published. We are now looking down at likely two months of hearings in the European Parliament. MEPs need to approve each candidate, else their national government and von der Leyen will have to nominate someone else. Dimi & Michele === New Commission Structure === The new European Commission structure <https://images.jifo.co/14978916_1726677632028.png> reflects the strengthened political power of Ursula von der Leyen. French Commissioner Thierry Breton (a powerful antagonist of von der Leyen until now) was replaced by Stéphane Séjourné. Powerful Danish Commissioner for competition Margareth Verstagher and the High Representative Josep Borrell are also leaving. This likely means that von der Leyen will have more power in her hands. — She appointed six executive Vice-Presidents. The most relevant to us is the Finnish nomination Henna Virkkunen. We expect the Parliament to reject at least one deisgnate. === The Portfolios a.k.a. “Mission Letters” === The President of the Commission sends each nominated Commissioner a so-called "mission letter" containing their instructions and political tasks. Commissioner Within the newly designated Commission college <https://commission.europa.eu/about-european-commission/president-elect-ursu…>, we have read through them and identified some key Commissioners who will be responsible for issues and files relevant to free knowledge: — Henna Virkkunen <https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/3b537594-9264-4249-a912-5b10…> (Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy) will be the main figure dealing with digital issues, including the DSA implementation, copyright and AI. She will also oversee the Directorate-General for "ass things digital" - DG CONNECT (a.k.a. DG CNCT). — She will be working together with Stephane Sejourné <https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/6ef52679-19b9-4a8d-b7b2-cb99…>, (Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy) who, among other things, will be responsible for the internal market and intellectual property. — Virkunnen will oversee the work of Michael McGrath <https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/907fd6b6-0474-47d7-99da-4700…>, Commissioner responsible for Democracy, Justice and Rule of law. He will be in charge of the implementation of EMFA and transposition of the anti-SLAPP directive, the Democracy Shield, the rule of law, disinformation and foreign interference as well as the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. — Glenn Micallef <https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/c8b8682b-ca47-461b-bc95-c981…>, Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport (under the supervision of the Executive Vice-President, Roxana Mînzatu <https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/27ac73de-6b5c-430d-8504-a76b…>, responsible for for People, Skills and Preparedness) will be in charge of the Cultural Compass, the EU Strategy on the rights of the child, cyberbullying as well as AI Strategy for cultural and creative industries. — Finally, Ekaterina Zaharieva <https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/130e9159-8616-4c29-9f61-0459…> will be the Commissioner in charge of Startups, Research and Innovation. In particular, she will be in charge of the set-up of the European AI Research Council. === Copyright and AI === Neither a full blown copyright reform, nor another attempt at a major AI regulation after the AI Act has passed mere months ago. However the creative sector is quite nervous about the effects of generative AI on their economic models, both on the side of the training data and output. — On the side of training data Ms Renate Nikolay (Deputy Director-General of DG CNCT) said at a parliamentary event that the Commission is considering setting up a “central registry of opt-outs” for platforms and services that don’t want their content to be used. – The European Commission notably is also leaving the door open to do “something” on AI and copyright. Designated Vice-President Virkkunen in her mission letter is asked to “consider the need to further improve the copyright framework to address new challenges. This was also confirmed by Commission representatives at various meetings. === CSAM === The regulation to tackle child sexual abuse materials <https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?refere…> online is stuck in Council, mainly over the disagreement of how to deal with private messaging systems. There was an attempt from the Hungarian Presidency <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cfOCJ1ILjra7ssge-LY9VI-FUUFlJFZX/view?usp=…> to push a compromise a few weeks ago, but it was rejected by several Member States including Germany, Poland, Nederlands — A new attempt will be tried again, likely on 10 October. The proposed compromises include an idea to force users of messaging services to agree to scanning for known CSAM content or else not be allowed to share multimedia. — Should the Council agree on a negotiating position they will have to negotiate with the European Parliament. Its positions would allow the scanning of private chats only with judicial consent. === Child Protection/Age-Verification === Tightly connected, but much broader, is the topic of child protection online. It will not go away and we should prepare for many more national and supranational, legislative and non-legislative initiatives. Most worrisome for us would be if new obligations would require Wikimedia projects to collect sensitive user data. — There are numerous initiatives across Europe and the world to require (some) online platforms to perform age-verification. The latest EU-related statement comes from Caroline Stage (Danish Digitalisation Minister), who told Politico Europe: “We also call for an ambitious use-case strategy for the European Digital Identity Wallet [...] the wallet is key to impose effective and privacy-respecting age-verification.” — The European Commission is preparing Guidelines for the protection of minors online <https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/1…>, something it is empowered to do under the Digital Services Act. The Wikimedia Foundation has submitted its response <https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/1…> . — The Commission has also published its mapping of different age assurance typologies <https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/research-report-mapping-ag…>, laying down what practices are known, how they work and what the benefits and drawbacks are. The ten methods examined are: (1) Self-declaration; (2) Hard identifiers; (3) Credit cards; (4) Self-sovereign identity; (5) Account holder confirmation; (6) Cross-platform authentication; (7) Facial age estimation; (8) Behavioural profiling; (9) Capacity-testing; and (10) Third-party age assurance service. — It is positive that the Commission report emphasises the need to account for requirements such as proportionality, privacy, security, accuracy, functionality, inclusivity, participation when choosing a method. ==== France ==== On the 21st of September the President Emmanuel Macron formally appointed the new government, led by Michel Barnier (former minister, EU Commissioner and chief Brexit negotiator). Here you may find the full list of ministers <https://www.info.gouv.fr/actualite/la-composition-du-gouvernement-de-michel…> . Worth it to highlight that the former Secretary of State responsible for digital affairs (attached to the Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty), Ms Marina Ferrari <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Ferrari>, has been replaced by Ms Clara Chappaz <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Chappaz>. The new Secretary of State will be responsible for Artificial Intelligence and digital affairs within the Ministry of Higher Education and Research <https://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/fr/clara-chappaz-secretaire-d…>. This seems a new and positive approach. ===END=== -- Wikimedia Europe ivzw

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[Sept. 24 - Oct. 6] WMF Advocacy team @ Wikimedia Community Events
by Franziska Putz 24 Sep '24

24 Sep '24

Hi friends, I hope everyone has had a lovely and caffeinated start to the week. It's a busy time of year between UN events in New York and regional Wikimedia conferences. Here's your recap of where in the world to find us during the next two weeks, and who might be at a Wikimedia conference near you. _____ *29–30 September | Big Fat Brussels Meeting in Brussels, Belgium * ➡️ Big Fat Brussels <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Big_Fat_Brussels_Meeting_9> is an annual convening of Wikimedia chapters based in Europe. The convening will cover topics like child safety online, artificial intelligence, and how to combat lawsuits meant to strategically censor, intimidate, and silence civil society organizations. ✋ Team attending: Rebecca MacKinnon (Vice President of Global Advocacy), Costanza Sciubba Caniglia (Anti-Disinformation Strategy Lead) and Ricky Gaines (Human Rights Policy and Advocacy Lead). 3–6 October | WikiConference North America <https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2024/Main_Page> in Indianapolis, US ➡️ WikiConference North America is the eleventh annual gathering of Wikimedians, institutions, and professionals from Canada, the United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America. 🗓 “Current trends in public policy that could impact Wikipedia <https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions:2024/Current_trends_in_public_p…>” | 5 October @ 10:15 GMT-4 ✋ Stan Adams (Lead Public Policy Specialist for North America) will host a session in which he describes the current trends in public policy that could impact Wikipedia (such as protecting kids' safety and regulating content moderation), makes clear some of the political rhetoric around those trends, and illustrates some of the potential impacts for Wikipedians. 4–6 October | WikiIndaba Conference <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2024> in Johannesburg, South Africa ➡️ WikiIndaba is the annual regional conference for Africans both within the continent and in the diaspora. The focus of this gathering is on building capacity for and connections between African Wikimedians so they can turn ideas into action. 🗓️ ”Building the internet we want in Africa through policy advocacy” <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_2024/Proposal/Building_the_Inter…> | 4 October @ 16:00 GMT+2 ✋ Ziski Putz (Senior Movement Advocacy Manager) will be co-hosting a roundtable discussion with Wikimedians from across the continent. They will share what motivated them to pursue policy initiatives, the misconceptions about Wikimedia they have encountered, what they’ve learned from these experiences, and how they plan to take their momentum forward. _____ Please come find us if you're at any of the above mentioned events. All the best & have a great week, Ziski Franziska Putz (she/her) Senior Movement Advocacy Manager Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation Fputz(a)wikimedia.org UTC Timezone

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by Aasmi 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

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09 Sep '24

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