Calendar: Event of interest

Digital Rights Meet Food Rights

Digital Rights Meet Food Rights at WSIS+20. Join our virtual side-event: “Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Digital Age – Spotlight on the Right to Food”   đź“… December 15 | 8:00-9:15 AM ET   As digital technologies reshape our world, their impact on fundamental human rights—especially the right to food—remains largely unaddressed. […]

Agricultural Knowledge Concordance: Enabling Infrastructure & Polycentric Governance

Name of the event Agricultural Knowledge Concordance: Enabling Infrastructure & Polycentric Governance Organizer(s) IndigiDao, IndigiDao, Code for Science and Society, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, OpenTEAM, Farm Hack, Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Place Harvard Law School, Berkman Klein Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts Date(s) Second week of December 2025 Purpose The […]

Commons to Code: How Platforms Seize Data, Rewire Agriculture, and Reshape Power

This discussion explores how digital agriculture is transforming farming into a data-extractive industry, deepening dependencies and raising fundamental questions of justice, rights, and sovereignty. Presented by Soledad Vogliano and Samuel Rosado Zaidi  

AI’s Large Looting Models? The Emerging Generative Biology Stack as the Next Frontier of Biopiracy

This session examines how the convergence of artificial intelligence and biotechnology is accelerating new forms of digital biopiracy, reframing biodiversity as data, and entrenching corporate control in the emerging bioeconomy. Presented by Jim Thomas We are pleased to invite you to a two-part series of roundtable webinars hosted by ETC Group to discuss the findings of our latest research […]

Webinar – Will Artificial Intelligence speed up the transition to agroecology?

Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) With Blue Tiyavorabun, EDRi, on environmental impacts of AI and digitalisation, Mute Schimpf, Which rules apply for AI in farming and who is driving uptake of AI tools in the farming sector? register here https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/QQcV3aDQTlu0IFFMsp_X9A

Webinar: Challenges of digitalisation for peasant agroecology

Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) With Jean Mathieu Thevenot, ECVC and Confédération Paysanne  Please register here https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/cEsntYTASS-zWudJJZnFGQ

Webinar – AI and smallholders farmers

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a quickly expanding and controversial emerging technology. The McKnight Foundation and 11th Hour Project (both AEF donors) are organizing the Webinar  “RESPONSIBLE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR SMALLHOLDERS FARMERS“ WHEN: Monday 27 October 2025, 3pm CET / 10:00 am EDT (UTC-4) (Duration: 2 hours). Interpretation available in: English, French, Spanish .  REGISTER HERE SPEAKERS  […]

Agricultural Knowledge Concordance: Civic Infrastructure & Lending Libraries

Organizer(s) Concordance, Indigidao, OpenTEAM, Farm Hack, Distributed Web (DWeb) community, Internet Archive Place Internet Archive, San Francisco, California Date(s) October 24, 2025 Purpose The inaugural Concordance event will launch the Agricultural Knowledge Concordance series, convening aligned communities from IndigiDao, Code for Science and Society, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society,  Farm Hack, OpenTEAM, and […]

Webinar – Digital farming: the next frontier for Big Ag?

With Jennifer Clapp from IPES food When: 6 October 2025. 3.30pm – 4.30 pm CET/ 9.30am – 10.30 EDT Please register here https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/jnfn5dJuTzCddnUPiKoShQ

Pan-African Convening on the Future of Biodigital Technologies in Food and Agriculture

The first week of October 2025, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), Africa Technology Assessment Platform (AfriTAP), and ETC Group organize a pan African convening in Addis Abeba (Ethiopia) to critically reflect and strategize on the intersection of food systems and the digital economy. The Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology is part of […]