Ramya Chandrasekhar

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Researcher
Centre for Internet and Society, CNRS
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Ramya Chandrasekhar is a lawyer and researcher at the Centre for Internet and Society at the CNRS, Paris. She studies legal strategies for non-government open data, with a focus on applying commons-based governance principles to data ecosystems. Her case-studies encompass researcher access to platform data, re-use of the open web for training foundation AI models, and governance of open health data in open science and citizen science initiatives. Ramya is also a consultant for the Open Knowledge Foundation, and a member of the Digital Commons Policy Council.

Sustainable Open Data ECOsystems (ODECO)
Sustainable Data Commons
Digital Commons Policy Council

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Governing and sustaining the AI Commons? Finding models to pass the pilot phase

Ramya Chandrasekhar, Renata Avila, Daniel Brumund, Solana Larsen

Big Tech’s “one-model-fits-all” approach to AI development deepens data and knowledge inequities, automates oppression of data workers, and fuels the climate crisis. Federated AI commons offer a sustainable and participative alternative. How can we make this alternate vision a reality?
Digital rights
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Sustainability
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