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Such an interesting and funny speech right now from Vint Cerf about building the internet in the 1970s, as part of the The Royal Society events to celebrate the 50th anniversary. He couldn't have known how deeply software would have penetrated our economic and social environment.

"The virtual is not as virtuous as we hoped. Cyberspace needs identifiability and accountability...we are now seeing attempts by the UN, EU and others to try and create a better, safer internet." Vint Cerf addressing some of the challenges we face online.

"Private sector companies are now landing on the moon, creating a space-based economy. This will lead to change and challenges in the next few years, not decades. Another transformation is coming..." Provocative stuff for the afternoon's discussions The Royal Society

"It was people who brought the internet. And the internet of the future needs to be for and by the people." Mei Lin Fung, founder of the People-Centred Internet.

"Information provenance has become hugely important, and figuring out how to introduce norms into our online society that provide incentive for better behaviour. Accountability and liability may turn out to be our friends" Vint Cerf calling for better regulation of the internet.

99% of data on the internet is carried by 5 billion kilometres of optical fibre cable. FIVE BILLION KILOMETRES!

Running through every discussion today The Royal Society - thinking about the future of the internet - is a real concern about the increasing energy and climate cost of the accelerating demand for bandwidth. AI is NOT carbon neutral (despite the claims of certain major actors).

Stephen Lawrence would have been 50 today. What a gut punch. I was 16 when Stephen was killed, so his murder was a formative event. It was also formative for us as a society, even if we haven't progressed as far or as quickly as we might have hoped. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I know I'm tired but it's just taken me half an hour (when I should be doing something else) paying a three euro toll charge in Ireland eFlow Seriously, it shouldn't be that hard.

"Unless we want to reinforce bias, we'll always need to feed knowledge into the system" Jason Evans on why AI does not make Wikipedia obsolete. #CelticKnot2024 #AI #Wikipedia #tech #openknowledge

Really lovely to hear students from an Irish school giving a bilingual presentation about their work editing Wikipedia. Don't want to share a photo in the interests of their privacy. #CelticKnot2024 Wikimedia UK Wikimedia Community Ireland

Just heard the best explanation of Conflict of Interest from a young Irish student talking about WikiWomen Erasmus+ #CelticKnot2024 Wikipedia Wikimedia UK Wikimedia Community Ireland

Love this simple idea: For Irish speakers (or of course, speakers of another minority or minoritised language), wearing a badge saying "Please speak to me in Irish"* really increased people's ability and confidence to converse in that language. *Badge in Irish, of course.

Great to get a shout out from Farah Jack Mustaklem about the Palestine-Wales cultural exchange programme, a collaboration between @WikimediaUK and ويكيميديا بلاد الشام, in his presentation about Bridges across Cultures at #CelticKnot2024 Sign up here to get involved meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bridges_a…

We're thrilled to share our Strategic Report 2023/24. Here's a message from our Chief Executive, Lucy Crompton-Reid : youtube.com/watch?v=MhdbNT… You can view the full report here: 2024strategicreport.wikimedia.org.uk We hope you find it informative and inspiring. #charity #impact #reporting

Come and join our small, friendly and committed team at Wikimedia UK! This is a flexible and exciting role for someone with Welsh language skills who is passionate about access to information for everyone.

We train our UK community to research and contribute to Wikipedia's articles on our own national history, and beyond. This #GivingTuesday help us unearth more stories on marginalised peoples and topics, so all our voices are represented online. bit.ly/3zQZRtN

Your generosity is instrumental in driving our mission to empower people to create, share and access knowledge. 🤝 Join with those who have donated already: bit.ly/3zQZRtN #GivingTuesday #Wikipedia #CharityTuesday

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"In an age where knowledge is everything, Wikimedia’s behind-the-scenes communities are keeping the lights on and ensuring the truth is told." CEO Lucy Crompton-Reid shares a deep dive into the people-power behind the world's largest encyclopaedia. bit.ly/4ja42mn