People increasingly rely on large language model (LLM) chatbots such as ChatGPT or Copilot to receive and organise information. But these chatbots often make mistakes or provide 'made-up' or false information. The author of this paper argues that policy-makers have responded to this challenge in a piecemeal fashion, and uses qualitative methods to examine these...

The Digital Commons Policy Council was created to build connections between the worlds of policy-making and of community-based digital innovation. This report documents their activities and outlines some future plans.

Collective intelligence can, at its simplest, be understood as the enhanced capacity that is created when people work together, often with the help of technology, to mobilise a wider range of information, ideas and insights. This report explores the role that open digital infrastructures such as open data, hardware, content and software play in the...

Much of the discussion around digital infrastructure has focused on broadband availability, but the role of free and open source software (FOSS) has gone under-appreciated. In this paper, the author calls for government investment and regulation to ensure the future health, security, and growth of the FOSS ecosystem that has become indispensable to the modern...

The Debian survey, held in 2016, marked the first stage of an inquiry into the relationship between volunteer work in free and open source software and broader dimensions of work and employment. This report outlines the key findings from the research.