The AI Commons We Haven't (Yet) Built, was the challenge faced in Anastasia Stasenko, Founder and CEO of pleias, keynote at SOOCon26 On The Road Edinburgh on June 5, where she asked if the commons model that built the open web can actually survive in the AI era. A rockstar explanation in 15 minutes! Not to be missed. 🤩

View the content here: https://stateofopencon.com/content-edinburgh-soocon26/

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Economics and value of open source are critical understandings for policy makers and those engaging in open source, which is why The PSC joining OpenUK's team as our "Economists in Residence" is so important to us.

This will be based on our survey, which will, for the first time, include AI and be open to completion internationally as well as in the UK. 🤗

Learn more about The PSC: https://openuk.uk/profiles/the-psc/

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Our ever-growing body of reporting is led by Dr Jennifer Barth, Research Director, who works closely with our CEO, Professor Amanda Brock, and Research Manager Karan Saini, in the shaping and delivery of our reports. You can look forward to a short Sovereignty Report this week and a fuller AI Openness update in July.

You can learn more about Jenn https://openuk.uk/profiles/dr-jennifer-barth/, and see our reporting https://openuk.uk/report/

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The UK’s long-term failure to develop a coherent technology strategy is no longer just a business problem - increasingly it’s a democratic one. That's the view of former ministers, open source advocates and policy experts at an roundtable event earlier this month.

https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2026/uk-s-tech-strategy-failure-is-a-threat-to-democracy-experts?utm_source=mastodon_org&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=June_OpenSource

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Our recent Sovereignty Roundtable highlighted the UK tech strategy failings and opportunities, including open source and collaboration, which the UK must grab now, to manage collaboration in a world focused on sovereignty, according to John Leonard of Computing.

Read here: https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/2026/uk-s-tech-strategy-failure-is-a-threat-to-democracy-experts

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Our Sovereignty Roundtable is written up by Resultsense based on the article by Christine Horton for Think Digital Partners, featuring CEO Professor Amanda Brock, highlighting the over-conflation of terminology and the need for clarity, as well as open source.

Read here: https://www.resultsense.com/news/2026-06-18-open-source-uk-sovereign-ai-debate/

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Chris Yiu, Meta, reflects on what happens when you apply the open source ethos to AI models and data for good - and what that means for people and communities around the world in his keynote: "Reflections on AI Models and Data for Good" at SOOCon26 On The Road Edinburgh on June 5.

View the content here: https://stateofopencon.com/content-edinburgh-soocon26/

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OpenUK’s sovereignty event saw a deep exploration of what sovereignty is and how it can only hope to work in balance with collaboration and open source.

Read here: https://www.thinkdigitalpartners.com/news/2026/06/18/can-open-source-help-deliver-sovereign-ai/

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