This report synthesises insights from three workshops on the digital commons – shared public resources such as data, software, and cultural content – and includes the associated workshop papers. Strengthening and formally recognising these assets within government will improve their sustainability. Supporting them through procurement and policy settings will deliver cost efficiencies, ethical digital practice...

This report examines the economic and environmental sustainability of free, libre and open source software (FLOSS), its role in fostering sustainable production and evolving worker contributions. It highlights community rejection of restrictive licences as environmental incentives, critiques predatory information technology (IT) practices and details workplace obstacles to reducing environmental impacts.

This strategy sets out the desired features of Australia’s National Digital Research Infrastructure (NDRI) ecosystem to ensure it can meet the rapidly growing demand for increasingly complex digital tools and services that NDRI provides. It outlines key challenges facing NDRI users and providers and articulates high level actions to address these. Achieving the outcomes of...

This report lays out the human rights implications of the 'Predator Files' disclosures, which show how a suite of highly invasive surveillance technologies, supplied by the Intellexa alliance, is being sold and transferred around the world with impunity.

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...