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.
🗓️ #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: [email protected]
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!
💬 “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
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OpenWebSearch.eu
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
Open Search Foundation