Open Future’s Annual Report 2024 covers our activities from January 1 to December 31, 2024—our fourth full year of operation and the final year of our four-year grant from Arcadia Fund. We are making this report–originally produced for our funders as part of our regular reporting–publicly available as part of our commitment to openness and transparency.

The report provides a detailed account of our organizational strategy, including our three core objectives and achievements in each area, along with insights into how we have developed and refined our approach.

About the Open Future Foundation: We recognize that in today’s digital landscape, openness both poses challenges to concentrations of power and, paradoxically, empowers them. This is what we call the Paradox of Open.

Our mission is to reimagine and reframe openness by tackling power-related issues and addressing the imbalances it can create. Our primary focus is safeguarding the open internet to maximize the positive impacts of shared data, knowledge, and culture on society.

To this end, our team develops civil society strategies and policies for cultivating Digital Commons.

Keywords

copyright infrastructure · open data · open-source AI · knowledge sharing · advocacy