Save the Date for #ossym24 – 6th Open Search Symposium in Munich

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This year’s Open Search Symposium takes place from 9 – 11 October 2024 at LRZ Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich (Germany) and online.

#ossym is an international conference that brings together the Open Web Search community in Europe on a yearly basis. The hybrid conference provides a forum to discuss and further develop the ideas and concepts of open internet search and related topics in various formats including scientific talks, panels, workshops, demonstrations, student challenges and informal discussion spaces. Participants include researchers, data centres, libraries, policy makers, legal and ethical experts, and society. Last years’s conferences took place at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. This year the Leibniz Supercomputing Center in Munich is hosting the event.

The call for papers and demos is open until March. The conference programme will soon be announced.

More information: https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/events-osf/ossym24/

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Telepolis: “Those who defend the free Internet against the state and corporations”

Three years, five data centers, six universities, six third-party partners,…: These are just a few of the parameters for the EU project OpenWebSearch.eu, which was initiated in 2022 by the Open Search Foundation and 13 European partners with the aim of creating an open, European search index.

For his book “Der Kampf um das Internet – Wie Wikipedia, Mastodon und Co. die Tech-Giganten herausfordern”, author Stefan Mey also interviewed Open Search Foundation board members Stefan Voigt and Christine Plote about the basic ideas, motivations and drive behind the Open Search Initiative.

You can now read an excerpt from the interview on Telepolis (available in German): https://www.telepolis.de/features/Wer-das-freie-Internet-gegen-Staat-und-Konzerne-verteidigt-9585983.html?seite=2

Also in the book: a portrait of the Open Search Foundation. Find the book on the publisher’s website: https://www.chbeck.de/mey-kampf-internet/product/35518159

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“Education+Literacy” working group: New specialist publication in the “Kita Handbuch”

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How do children deal with media? When and how can an awareness of media use be conveyed? What measures can parents and educators take to introduce young people to the topic of “search literacy”?

Even for the youngest, playful learning methods are suitable for developing an awareness of media use.

The Education+Literacy working group of the Open Search Foundation is working on concepts for such early childhood media education.

The specialist article by Melanie Platz, Alexander Decker & Christine Plote has now been published in the comprehensive German “Kita-Handbuch”:

https://www.kindergartenpaedagogik.de/fachartikel/bildungsbereiche-erziehungsfelder/medienerziehung-informationstechnische-bildung/foerderung-eines-verstaendigen-umgangs-mit-suchmaschinen-im-elementarbereich/

Information is a cornerstone of development. We have put together some helpful hands-on tips for children and their parents. You can take a look here:

Children and Internet Search

You can find out more about the work of the “Education + Literacy” working group here: https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/working-group-educationliteracy/

Außerdem ein interessanter Lesetipp. Interview mit Melanie Platz zum Thema „Children are key multipliers when it comes to changing generational thinking“: https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/children-are-key-multipliers-when-it-comes-to-changing-generational-thinking-interview-with-melanie-platz/

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