Can’t make one of the sessions
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 5:18 am
Thankfully, we do not have the rights and paywall problems that have been strangling the Internet’s best feature: an essentially free information distribution system.
Democracy’s Library can be a free public library available on your phone and your laptop.
Democracy’s Library will be the foundation of new services, both non-commercial and commercial, that leverages language understanding, machine learning, automatic translation, speech recognition, and visualizations.
Democracies publish openly– let’s take advantage of this. Leverage our phone number list library system to not just lease commercial publisher’s database products, but build open collections that everyone can use and reuse without limitation.
Lets build direct conduits from governments into Democracy’s Library for long term preservation and access. A public-public partnership that long served us in the paper era, that took a pause in the mainframe era of commercial databases, can flourish again in the Internet era.
“Public Access to the Public Domain” can be a rallying cry for Democracy’s Library.
Democracy’s Library can be a flowering of information services for free people.
If you’d like to stay connected, sign up for the #EmpoweringLibraries newsletter.
Have ideas? Have materials? Have a use case? Have resources to bring to bear? This can only happen if we work together.
Let’s build Democracy’s Library, together.
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JUST ADDED: Three new events to close out 2022
Posted on November 29, 2022 by Chris Freeland
We’ve just finished scheduling three new events through the end of the year that you won’t want to miss! All events are virtual, free and open to the public.
? Go ahead and register so that you’ll receive an e-mail with the session recording.
November 30
Join HEATHER JOSEPH, executive director of SPARC, for a chat with DATA CARTELS author SARAH LAMDAN about the companies that control & monopolize our information.
REGISTER NOW: DATA CARTELS
In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. SARAH LAMDAN brings us into the unregulated underworld of these “data cartels”, demonstrating how the entities mining, commodifying, and selling our data and informational resources perpetuate social inequalities and threaten the democratic sharing of knowledge.
Democracy’s Library can be a free public library available on your phone and your laptop.
Democracy’s Library will be the foundation of new services, both non-commercial and commercial, that leverages language understanding, machine learning, automatic translation, speech recognition, and visualizations.
Democracies publish openly– let’s take advantage of this. Leverage our phone number list library system to not just lease commercial publisher’s database products, but build open collections that everyone can use and reuse without limitation.
Lets build direct conduits from governments into Democracy’s Library for long term preservation and access. A public-public partnership that long served us in the paper era, that took a pause in the mainframe era of commercial databases, can flourish again in the Internet era.
“Public Access to the Public Domain” can be a rallying cry for Democracy’s Library.
Democracy’s Library can be a flowering of information services for free people.
If you’d like to stay connected, sign up for the #EmpoweringLibraries newsletter.
Have ideas? Have materials? Have a use case? Have resources to bring to bear? This can only happen if we work together.
Let’s build Democracy’s Library, together.
Posted in News |
JUST ADDED: Three new events to close out 2022
Posted on November 29, 2022 by Chris Freeland
We’ve just finished scheduling three new events through the end of the year that you won’t want to miss! All events are virtual, free and open to the public.
? Go ahead and register so that you’ll receive an e-mail with the session recording.
November 30
Join HEATHER JOSEPH, executive director of SPARC, for a chat with DATA CARTELS author SARAH LAMDAN about the companies that control & monopolize our information.
REGISTER NOW: DATA CARTELS
In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. SARAH LAMDAN brings us into the unregulated underworld of these “data cartels”, demonstrating how the entities mining, commodifying, and selling our data and informational resources perpetuate social inequalities and threaten the democratic sharing of knowledge.