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PublicSpaces

Dutch-led coalition building a digital environment that puts public values first.

PublicSpaces is a coalition of public-interest organisations — broadcasters, museums, libraries, universities, civil-society groups — working to reclaim the internet for the common good. Originating in the Netherlands, it offers an alternative imagination: digital infrastructure built around openness, transparency, sovereignty, autonomy and shared values rather than around extraction.

# Why they matter to us

PublicSpaces is one of the most concrete European attempts to translate “public values” into actual digital infrastructure: code, governance, procurement and partnerships. The questions they organise around — what should a public broadcaster’s recommender system look like? what does a public-interest social platform need? — map directly onto debates Belgium will have to settle as well.

# Where we connect

  • Shared belief that public institutions should not be hosted on extractive commercial platforms by default.
  • Overlap on open standards, federated architectures and data minimisation.
  • A constructive agenda: not just opposing the status quo, but building alternatives.

# Find them