Ein #Meilenstein für eine unabhängige #Onlinesuche ist geschafft: @openwebsearcheu gibt das erste, von Menschen gepflegte Webverzeichnis zur Nutzung frei: https://curlie.org/download
Mit Curli.org können #Webseiten Kataloge zum eigenen Thema anbieten. Der Eintrag ins Verzeichnis ist kostenlos. Wir sind stolz darauf, die Grundlage fürs unabhängige Suchen hosten und betreuen zu dürfen. Danke für die tolle Zusammenarbeit.
#freewebsearch
🗓️ #CommunityUpdate on 3 Nov
👉 Having launched the #FreeWebSearch Charter in Sep & being back from #ossym in Finland, we're ready to host our next Community Update Call!
Join for updates re the #OpenWebSearch community + technical updates related to the OWI.
Afterwards, stick around for our Tech & Applications Meeting (16:00-17:00 CEST) where we will discuss more technical aspects of #OpenWebSearch.
3rd Nov, 15:00-15:45 CEST, Big Blue Button
Sign-up via email: community@openwebsearch.eu
Who decides what information we find on the #internet Online searches are controlled by just a few corporations. A European alliance has now launched the #FreeWebSearch Charter, which aims to return control of searches to society by setting out ten principles: https://freewebsearch.org/en/freewebsearch-charter-calls-for-breaking-googles-monopoly/
Promote free searching: Through your signature, and through personal commitment. With the open web index OWI of the #research project OpenWebSearch.eu, you can even experiment for #search services.
✊ Stay critical!
I signed the #FreeWebSearch Charter: Web search belongs to all of us. Together we can reclaim it!
5 bln. ppl use #SearchEngines & #AI daily for health information, education, news & more.
Dr. Tong-Jin Smith, professor of journalism at Media University of Applied Sciences in Berlin signed our #FreeWebSearch charter.
“Democracy requires free access to information. However, the digital public sphere is controlled by commercial providers. For them, democracy is not a business model. We therefore need a web search that sees itself as public infrastructure & is committed to the public good.”
📰 Have you seen the news? German newspaper Starnberger Merkur writes on the #FreeWebSearch Charter!
"Web search is too important to our democracy to be controlled by the Googles of this world. It belongs under democratic oversight." says Christine Plote, Co-Founder Open Search Foundation and Project Manger #FreeWebSearch Charter.
And there is so much more to it!
Luckily you can dive deeper in today's article in Starnberger Merkur:
https://www.merkur.de/lokales/starnberg/starnberg-ort29487/starnberger-initiative-stoesst-charta-an-internetsuche-als-kritische-infrastruktur-93986145.html
Thank youTobias Gmach for this piece!
Lawyer Prof. Dr. Thomas Höppner, expert in antitrust law & digital regulation, is among the first signatories of the #FreeWebSearch charter.
He points out their social responsibility:
“Search engines are the primary gateway to information of all kinds. As intermediaries, they’ve become bottlenecks: policing what content gets seen by whom. Given their ‚kingmaker’ power, it is essential that they keep the public interest and their social responsibility in view.”
More: charter.freewebsearch.org
💬 “Whoever controls search algorithms controls access to the world's knowledge, to our history and how it is remembered...”
Digital expert + former member of the German Bundestag Anke Domscheit-Berg grew up in the GDR. In her statement for the #FreeWebSearch Charter, she describes why she supports the demands of the charter as one of its first signatories.
Read her full statement here:
https://freewebsearch.org/en/statement-anke-domscheit-berg/
Sign now and take a stand for freedom of information:
charter.freewebsearch.org
‼️ Who controls what BILLIONS can find on the web?
For years now, a handful of tech corporations alone have held this power.
With the #FreeWebSearch Charter, we are campaigning for a web search system that: ✅ Works transparently/comprehensibly
✅ Shows diverse perspectives & sources
✅ Respects privacy
✅ Provides equal access
✅ Is subject to democratic control
The Charter is a call to action to #ReclaimWebSearch as a #publicgood.
How to join?
Sign the charter: charter.freewebsearch.org
Die Internetsuche kann energieeffizient sein – wenn sie denn klassisch sucht und nicht mit Hilfe von Künstlicher Intelligenz, die deutlich mehr Energie verbraucht. Doch inzwischen ist es ziemlich schwer, eine Suchmaschine zu finden, die ohne eine KI-Zusammenfassung auskommt.
Immerhin: Bei DuckDuckGo kann man die KI-Zusammenfassung ausstellen. Wer kennt weitere Anbieter, die das ermöglichen? Wir freuen uns über Vorschläge in den Kommentaren!
#freewebsearch #digitalesouveränität
Today is #FreeWebSearch Day! 🔎🌐
Free Web Search Day is an annual event promoting free, open and transparent #internetsearch.
As a partner in the @openwebsearcheu project, LRZ is working on the development of a European infrastructure for #websearch. Find out why this is important in this video: https://vimeo.com/1072290094/2ae3702438?share=copy
Further information about Free Web Search Day: https://freewebsearch.org/
#FreeWebSearchDay alert
👉 Before starting into the weekend, make sure to mark the following dates in your calendars:
📌 29 Sept: #FreeWebSearch Charter launch (online)
📌 29 Sept: In-person event “Is it still traceable?” at UNI:Lokal Kassel
📌 30 Sept: Introduction of inclusive and privacy-friendly search engine "Nooon" (online)
Find the full agenda and info on how to join here:
https://freewebsearch.org/en/events/
Nooon - a Search Engine for people with disabilities
https://freewebsearch.org/en/nooon-a-search-engine-for-people-with-disabilities/
I did not see it mentioned here yet, and found it cool. Hopefully it is useful and interesting for people here to use and help develop.
Just three weeks to go until #FreeWebSearchDay25: Join in — either take part in one of the many #events or, even better, organise your own event on the topic of #FreeWebSearch for friends or colleagues, your department, research institute, or company. You can find lots of material on the topic at the @osf or the European #research project @openwebsearcheu The focus is on democratic alternatives for searching as well as new business models: https://freewebsearch.org/de/
Save the Date for 19 September!
📌 For #businesses and #developers who are curious to work with the #OpenWebIndex data, our consortium partner A1 Slovenija will offer an exclusive online onboarding event, specifically addressing topics that are of interest to industry experts.
The event also forms part of September's #FreeWebSearch activities.
👉 Find details and a sign-up link here:
https://freewebsearch.org/en/first-european-federated-open-web-index-industry-kick-off
Diesen Termin legen wir Euch ans Herz: #owi der #offenerWebindex des europäischen Projekts OpenWebSearch.eu wird für die Forschung freigegeben. Lernt neue Möglichkeiten für Recherchen oder für eigene Such- und Recherchedienste kennen. Wir sind schon sehr gespannt auf den 6.Juni!
Hier geht's zum Online-Launch: https://cscfi.zoom.us/meeting/register/eATIpDQ5TZidh4Jzkim6FQ#/registration
#offenesuche #freewebsearch, , #suchen #suchenimWeb , #onlinesuche
Want to know more about the market potential of OpenWebSearch.EU? Our third-party partner Mücke Roth & Company provided an in-depth assessment of the macroeconomic market potential of a #European #OpenWebIndex that you can download for free on our website.💡
Stimmungsbilder vom ersten #OSSYM24-Tag: Großartige Vorträge und Keynotes von Florian Herrmann, bayerische Staatskanzlei, Roberto Viola, Europäische Kommission, und viel Hintergrund zu #websuche, #Suchtechnologie und ein #Internet, das weitgehend von kommerziellen Interessen befreit wird. Und es geht schon weiter hier beim #OSSYM
#onlinesuche, #freewebsearch, #opensearch, #openscience, #discoverLRZ
Ab Mittwoch treffen sich am LRZ beim #OSSYM24 Forschende und Interessierte, die sich für ein freies Internet stark machen und an Webservices und -technologien arbeiten. Medienforscher und Buchautor Dr. Martin Andree erzählt, was er vom OSSYM erwartet: eine Neubewertung von Tech-Konzernen, weil gerade der Medienstaatsvertrag neu verhandelt wird: https://www.lrz.de/presse/ereignisse/2024-09-10-OSSYM-MAndree-dt/
Information zum #OSSYM; https://www.lrz.de/presse/ereignisse/2024-10-01-ossym2024/
#internet, #onlinesuche, #freewebsearch, #opensearch, #opensience
happy #freewebsearch day, let's keep internet search free, open, and transparent!
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