Some comments from others for those who still want to read more!

The sponsor recognizes the long and winding road this challenge paper has taken. So, to finish a couple of thoughts from others.

At the end of a well-regarding blog detailing the potential for a destructive period of global competition for leadership in AI, Ian Hogarth includes a couple of ideas regarding international cooperation on technology:

"Personally, I believe that AI should become a global public good--like GPS, HTTP, TCP/IP, or the English language--and the best long term structure for bringing this to fruition is a non-profit, global organisation with governance mechanics that reflect the interests of all countries and people. The best shorthand I have for this is some kind of cross between Wikipedia, and The UN."

"During the coming phase of AI Nationalism that this essay predicts, I believe we need a simultaneous investment in organisations and technologies that can counterbalance this trend and drive an international rather than national agenda. Something analogous to The Baruch Plan led by organisations like DeepMind and OpenAI."

Paul Duan is founder of Bayes Impact, a French non-profit company designed to use data science in the public interest. He wrote a paper called "The Citizen-Led Public Service" in which he called for a new partnership between entrepreneurs focused on the public good and government.

His proposal (translated from French) "combines the forces of innovation with those of the state in an unprecedented alliance. This alliance must lift the obstacles that cause technological innovation to benefit private interests far more easily than the common good. In other words, this way offers citizens the means to respond to the needs of society while guaranteeing respect for the values and principles, albeit adapted to the digital world, of public service."

Finally, I particularly liked a recent Medium post by Irina Bolychevsky on the topic of Tim Berners-Lee's new initiative.

"It's time to challenge the standard economic approach when it comes to digital. The economies of scale are fundamentally different and we need bold new frameworks to ensure that technology benefits and protects everyone in society. Governments could and should invest in open infrastructure so that the basics of communicating online or connecting with people, cannot be 'owned' by companies, but is a shared basis like the internet or email protocol.

I'm thrilled Tim is pushing forward with Solid, but we need to be thinking bigger. Let's start tackling the broader challenges and opportunities for a decentralised web to deliver a better ecosystem for all. Solid and similar projects need user research, user centered design, marketing and coordination to ensure interoperability and a user experience that can compete with the status quo. Common authentication and authorisation standards for digital identity and login and communication standards that work across applications and services will help break down silos and create real benefits to users and companies to motivate the move away from digital monopolies. It's time to push for serious funding and resources into such public infrastructure to create an internet and web that works for everyone, just like Tim's original vision."

https://medium.com/@shevski/how-solid-is-tims-plan-to-redecentralize-the-web-b163ba78e835