Use these as starting points for adopting the right Rule for your community.

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• Community-building resources

Sisyphus Lab is a research organization that explores the connections between personal experiences and larger societal structures, using sociological imagination to ask critical questions about the systems, futures, and lives we inhabit

The UK National Data Library is a proposed initiative by Wellcome and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to improve access and usability of public sector datasets for researchers and the public good

This consultation seeks to address the challenges presented by the widespread use of copyright material for training AI models, aiming to balance the needs of the UK's creative industries and AI sector

• United Kingdom (government)

This platform allows users to create and manage advertisements that are integrated with a large language model (LLM)

The article discusses the challenges of building governable online communities, highlighting how many online groups and mutual aid projects have fallen apart due to internal conflicts

The article discusses the 'Year of Elections' in 2024, which saw one of the largest global movements to the polls in history

This paper presents a novel approach for generating high-quality 3D human models from a single input image

This article provides an update on the WhoFundsThem project, which aims to improve transparency around MPs' and APPGs' financial interests

Tell Us What You Think is a platform that conducts AI-powered voice interviews to gather user feedback and insights for product research and development

The Institute for Government hosted a public services conference to discuss the cross-cutting issues facing public services, including the impact of the budget on public services performance, the challenges facing the NHS and social care, and the key questions facing the government ahead of the spending review

This article discusses the efforts by mySociety to create a dataset and archive of citizens assemblies held in the UK, in order to make it easier to find and track these assemblies

The Open Referral organization has released version 3

The blog post discusses the work of the UK government's Policy Lab, which uses design, innovation, and people-centered approaches to improve policymaking

• United Kingdom (government)

The article discusses the value and potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in various industries, highlighting how companies can leverage AI to drive innovation, improve operations, and enhance customer experiences

The content appears to be a WhatsApp group invite, providing information about the features and capabilities of the WhatsApp messaging platform, including end-to-end encryption, private messaging, group conversations, and business tools

The report 'Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record' highlights the critical role that public libraries and archives play in preserving digital culture and history, as a significant portion of online content is at risk of being lost due to website closures, digital media bankruptcies, and link rot

Community Models is a platform that enables groups of people to collaboratively create and refine AI models based on collectively defined constitutions, with the goal of democratizing AI alignment by allowing diverse groups to shape AI behavior according to their shared values and preferences

The ForumMagnum repository contains the development code for the LessWrong2 and EA Forum websites, which are built using the Vulcan

Nesta is introducing a new co-working space called The Nest 58 in London, which aims to provide an affordable and collaborative environment for charities to come together, share ideas, and work towards a brighter future

This event is a monthly Metagov Community Orientation Call where new members can learn about Metagov, who is part of the community, and ways to get involved in research or other community activities

The Initiative for Digital Public Interest (IDPI) is launching a fund to support civil society engagement on digital public infrastructure (DPI) projects, with a focus on governance, human rights protection, and rule of law

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This paper analyzes the impact of civic technology on political reform, focusing on how data science and digital tools can be leveraged to enhance civic engagement and government transparency

Dollar Street is a Gapminder project that features photos and videos of 469 families across 67 countries, aiming to challenge stereotypes and provide a data-driven perspective on global living conditions

This report, authored by the UK government's former food policy advisor Henry Dimbleby and public health expert Dr Dolly van Tulleken, provides practical advice and insights on how today's politicians can tackle the UK's obesity crisis

The article discusses the concept of 'decentralized and democratic, differential defensive acceleration' (d/acc), which aims to accelerate beneficial technologies while focusing on defensive and decentralizing technologies rather than those that concentrate power

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is running a private beta of GOV

• United Kingdom (government)

Amnesty International's Algorithmic Accountability Lab conducted a two-year investigation into the use of algorithms and AI by Denmark's welfare agency, Udbetaling Danmark (UDK), revealing troubling patterns of discriminatory practices that target vulnerable groups such as people with disabilities, marginalized racial groups, migrants, and refugees seeking benefits

Knowing is a platform that aims to help people make more informed decisions by providing access to reliable information and analysis on a variety of topics

Nestr is a collaboration platform that enables purpose-driven work using self-organization and AI

Europe's first public, open and multilingual AI infrastructure

• Artificial Intelligence
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Open source AI

semanticClimate is a project that aims to leverage semantic web technologies to improve climate data and knowledge sharing

Digital Defense is a comprehensive resource that provides checklists and guides to help individuals secure their digital lives and protect their privacy across various aspects such as authentication, web browsing, email, messaging, social media, and more

Illuminate tech is a mission-driven research and advisory firm that aims to help organizations design their products safely, meet regulatory obligations, and implement technology responsibly to create a safer and more trusted internet

This event is an Edge City Dinner, a gathering where builders, scientists, researchers, and creators will come together to explore ideas for an upcoming month-long popup village near London called Edge City UK

Boardy is an AI assistant that helps users connect with relevant people, such as introducing a CEO to a CTO or a founder to an investor

This video appears to be the introduction to a conversation series about the age of artificial intelligence (AI)

The content discusses Equity's campaign to strengthen performers' rights in response to the rise of AI in the entertainment industry

This call for screenshots invites people to share screenshots of interactions with AI that they find troubling, in order to build a collective understanding of AI's weirdness, strangeness, and uncanniness, and how screenshotting can open up possibilities for addressing concerns about AI

The Institute for Government is hosting its annual 'Government 2025' conference, which will explore key questions and challenges facing the UK government in the coming years

The UK government is launching a £100 million Innovation Fund to deploy 'crack' teams of problem solvers across the country to apply a 'test and learn' mindset to improving public services and delivering the government's Plan for Change

• United Kingdom (government)

Harmonica, an AI-powered tool for async multiplayer sensemaking workshops, has officially launched in early access

This workshop aims to celebrate Wikimedia's contributions to the natural language processing (NLP) community and explore approaches to ensuring the sustainability of this relationship

Open Heart Mind is developing an open-source framework that empowers communities to evaluate and reward diverse contributions through an inclusive peer-review process, fostering collaboration and coordination for the common good

Code4Compassion is a 24-hour hackathon that brings together AI developers and animal advocates to build practical tech solutions for animal protection

The article explores the idea of using large language models (LLMs) to iteratively improve code, similar to how users would ask an LLM to make an image 'more X'

• Govtech vendors

The content provides an overview of the AI safety landscape, including organizations, programs, projects, communities, funders, and resources related to AI safety research and development

The AI Governance Map is an interactive visualization that provides an overview of the AI governance landscape, including key organizations, initiatives, and resources related to the responsible development and deployment of AI systems