RadicalxChange Foundation
General Information
Identification Code: 611949191795-03
Website: [object Object]
Entity Form: 501(c)3
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 4/18/2024
Last Update: 5/9/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: RadicalxChange Foundation is a US based 501©(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to democratic innovation and institutional design through operational partnerships and experimental projects between academia, government, art, technology, and beyond.
RadicalxChange Foundation mission is to make our social world more diverse, equal, and free. We aim to advance plurality, equality, community and promote education about democratic innovation. By connecting people from all disciplines and places, by leveraging open decentralized technologies and mechanism design theory, our goal is to improve human’s social, political and economic interactions, give a voice to underrepresented communities through upgrading democracy, markets, the data economy, the commons, and identity.
RadicalxChange focuses on the details of how to achieve these goals, with particular attention to institutional innovation thru i) research, ii) partnerships, iii) prototypes and iv) movement building.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
- Digital economy and society
Levels of Interest:
- global
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: As it relates to its work on reconciling technology and democracy, empowering citizens in the digital age and catalyzing open technologies for a more diverse, equal, and free society, we would be looking to engage in the broader Europe Digital Decade agenda. In particular, we are keen to build a dialogue around the following EU legislative proposals and policies:
- EU Digital Services Act
- EU Digital Markets Act
- EU AI Act
and any initiatives shaping the digital future of Europe in an open, transparent and equal way. For example, we would be interested to discuss and present innovative views and experiments around
- Europe Public Digital Infrastructure
- Protection of privacy and data protection
- Common European Data Spaces
- EU Digital Identity Wallet
Communication Activities: The following list of examples of communication activities is non-exhaustive and has mostly an illustrative purpose of the wide range of initiatives RadicalxChange Foundation engages in to create spaces for dialogue around democracy and technology in the XXI century as it touches to the EU policies and Europe's digital future.
- Conference organized in Warsaw, Poland in October 2022 entitled "Europe and The Futures of Pluralism.” The goal was to learn of pioneering digital democracy practices in Ukraine, Estonia, and across Eastern Europe, experience works of art as windows to connection, and examine European institutions through the frame of pluralistic governance.
More details here: https://www.radicalxchange.org/events/2022-warsaw/
- Recent paper published by Matt Prewitt, RadicalxChange President on the role the public in AI regulation and specifically around Copyright. See The Models are Yours: The Public's Leverage in AI
Full paper here: https://www.radicalxchange.org/media/blog/the-models-are-yours-the-publics-leverage-in-ai/
- Recent initiatives around Data Dignity or how to exert democratic collective bargaining power over the citizens and users' data.
More details here: https://www.radicalxchange.org/wiki/data-dignity/
- RadicalxChange Foundation participated in the "Getting Civic Tech Right for Democracy" conference organized by the OECD and the Innovative Citizen Participation Network (ICPN) held in Paris in October 2023. We presented and discussed innovative participatory and deliberative tools and mechanisms to facilitate citizen's participation in democratic processes and engagement with their governments.
More details here: https://www.radicalxchange.org/wiki/oecd-civic-tech-background-note-feedback/
- A new era of democracy podcast. RadicalxChange and their guest examine how social media affects our culture, our relationships, and consequently our democratic processes, while exploring potential ways to imagine new and better forms of democracy by “living with technology, not through technology"
More details here: https://radicalxchange-s.simplecast.com/episodes/a-new-era-of-democracy-ep-3-zizi-papacharissi-_6yXUj3Z
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A
Head Office
Address: 26 Fieldbrook Place
Post Code: 94556
City: Moraga
Country: UNITED STATES
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EU Office
Address: 2248 Migueletes
Post Code: 1428
City: Buenos Aires
Country: ARGENTINA
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Financial Data
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Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 2
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 2
Members F T E: 0.20000000298023224
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: RadicalxChange Foundation is not a membership organization.
Here is a list of supporters currently listed on our website: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Bunz, The Charter Cities Institute, College for Creative Studies, Dada.art, Democracy Earth, Evil Twin Booking, FTX Future Fund Regranting Program, Gitcoin, Hewlett Foundation, Idena, Insper, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Kauffman Foundation, Merit, Microsoft, Nesta, Ocean Protocol, Omidyar Network, One Project, The Osa Foundation, Polco, The Rockefeller Foundation, Streamr, Totle, Unfinished, Wildcards, Wireline.
In addition, we have collaborated with partner organizations on specific research projects or events, such as Dark Matter Labs, Serpentine Galleries, Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University, Gray Area, New_Public, Berterlsmann Stifung, The Tech and Global Affairs Innovation Hub at Sciences Po Paris (PSIA).
Organisation Members: RadicalxChange Foundation is a founding member of the Internet4Trust Knowledge Network.
https://sites.google.com/i4tknowledge.net/i4tknowledge2024wd/home
Leading think tanks and research centers on digital and data policy from all over the world form part of the “Internet for Trust Global Knowledge Network”, with the support of UNESCO. This network aims at being a trusted interface between knowledge producers and public decision makers. It notably addresses online disinformation, hate speech. It helps regulators better address the governance of digital platforms, in order to protect freedom of expression and other human rights.