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_2024_EU_elections.pdf Political positions on the EU elections (German) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Positionen_des_B%C3%BCndnis_F5_zur_Europawahl.pdf
...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