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Apertium is a free/open-source machine translation platform, initially aimed at related-language pairs but expanded to deal with more divergent language pairs (such as English-Catalan). The platform provides a language-independent machine translation engine tools to manage the linguistic data necessary to build a machine translation system for a given language pair and linguistic data for a growing number of language pairs.

"Promise Tracker is a citizen-monitoring platform designed to help communities track issues they care about and use that information to advocate for change with local government, institutions, or the press. More than a data collection platform, Promise Tracker is a civic process designed to gather groups of citizens to discuss critical issues in their communities, collect actionable information to better understand those issues, and engage in dialogue with local actors in order to develop solutions."

"Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy The backlash against unethical labor practices in the "collaborative sharing economy" has been overplayed. Recently, The Washington Post, New York Times and others started to rail against online labor brokerages like Taskrabbit, Handy, and Uber because of an utter lack of concern for their workers. At the recent Digital Labor conference, my colleague McKenzie Wark proposed that the modes of production that we appear to be entering are not quite capitalism as classically described. "This is not capitalism," he said, "this is something worse."

Frances Haugen: the EU has a 'once-in-a-generation opportunity' to regulate Facebook

The new rules are proportionate, foster innovation, growth and competitiveness, and facilitate the scaling up of smaller platforms, SMEs and start-ups. The responsibilities of users, platforms, and public authorities are rebalanced according to European values, placing citizens at the centre. The rules Better protect consumers and their fundamental rights online Establish a powerful transparency and a clear accountability framework for online platforms Foster innovation, growth and competitiveness within the single market

"Comment protéger nos vies virtuelles? Qui doit arbitrer les cyberconflits? Quelle liberté d'expression sur la Toile? Comment y favoriser le commerce? Ces questions se font de plus en plus complexes et brûlantes au niveau international. Au point qu'on parle désormais de gouvernance mondiale de l'Internet. Entendez par là une sorte de capitale du Web où différentes structures de régulation pourraient se coordonner et où l'on pourrait discuter des problèmes liés à Internet. Pour le Conseil fédéral, Genève doit être cet endroit. Pour positionner la Ville dans cette compétition mondiale, il a lancé il y a un an la Geneva Internet Platform. Premier bilan avec son «père spirituel», le conseiller national Ruedi Noser (PLR/ZH), pour qui il n'est pas besoin d'être un geek pour se sentir concerné."

The Digital Services Act could require big changes to digital platforms. Here are 4 things lawmakers need to know to protect people-powered spaces like Wikipedia.

"Plateformes en Communs est un projet de la Coop des Communs. Nous regroupons des personnes venant de cultures différentes (Economie Sociale et Solidaire, Économie collaborative, Communs) qui souhaitent créer des alliances et des convergences entre ces mondes. Nous pensons qu'une nouvelle génération de plateformes collaboratives émergent et nous accompagnons leur structuration et les innovations sociales qu'elles portent : nouvelles gouvernances plus inclusives pour leurs communautés, partage de la valeur, innovations organisationnelles..."

"Medical R&D should respond to specific priority health needs. Opening up the R&D process to a wide range of contributors and stakeholders will allow the design of medicines that are better adapted to the needs of the end users, and will define the preferred product characteristics (PPCs) and target product profile (TPP) that will guide all the phases of product development. In OS, there are no insiders, meaning that strategic decisions may be made through informed community debate against the agreed-upon TPP. The broader community is thus involved in designing how a product will be developed, defining the studies that will be done, and establishing the criteria that will be applied for making stop/go decisions. In order to achieve this, investments are needed to build online communities and platforms that help groups collaborate effectively."

"The full version of Amazon's union-busting training video that was sent to Whole Foods management in 2018. It was then leaked by Whole Worker to the media. "