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Open Future

Stichting Open Future works on the rules and infrastructure supporting a European digital public space. Shared analysis and policy approaches can help civic organizations advocate for interoperable public-interest alternatives.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 64–74/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: Shared policy analysis and digital-commons governance approaches can support nonprofit and public institutions seeking alternatives to dependency on dominant private infrastructure.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Vision · Gatekeepers · Coordination — editorial, partial alignment.

A concrete digital-public-space model connects future institutional design, information gatekeeping and interoperable coordination. This is partial conceptual alignment, not a finding that the model works.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Develop policy and governance approaches for public digital infrastructure and commons

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

3 / 4

Work on infrastructure governance, interoperability and access targets rules and concentrations of digital power rather than delivering only individual services.

Institutional reach

3 / 4

European policy and infrastructure approaches can reach multiple cultural and civic institutions, but proposals are not enacted policy or measured adoption.

Durability

2 / 4

Governance and interoperable infrastructure could persist institutionally if implemented; analysis and advocacy alone do not secure that persistence.

Scalability

3 / 4

Public frameworks and interoperable approaches can be reused, while political agreement, operational investment and local governance limit replication.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

Unknown: disclosed grants and commissioned work do not establish a current unrestricted funding gap or which additional public-interest work another donation would cause.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Unknown: a commons-governance agenda and supervisory board do not establish binding affected-user authority over this organization or proposed infrastructure.

Evidence and selection

Primary-source programme and identity documentation; no independent impact validation in this review

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

Does a specific Open Future policy or governance proposal lead to a funded, interoperable public-interest service with independently documented access and governance improvements, rather than remaining a discussion paper?

Review confidence: Low–medium for the documented mechanism; low for causal effectiveness and donation comparisons. Stichting Open Future’s policy, research and connective work for public digital infrastructure and commons, not CAF America, a whole funded consortium or already-realized public infrastructure.

What remains uncertain

Dutch nonprofit Stichting Open Future, KVK 80732453, is the assessed organization. CAF America is described as a US giving intermediary, not treated as Open Future’s own US charity identity. Openness can reinforce concentrated power, a risk the organization itself discusses. A proposed digital public space or infrastructure fund is not a deployed public system. Public content terms, grant participation and a registry project do not establish a named code license or sole development role; no software badge is assigned. Policy influence was not causally verified.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage