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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to ensure the permanent preservation of humanity's most important information by stewarding the development of open-source software and open protocols for decentralized data storage and retrieval networks.
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- Technology, Information and Internet
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- 11-50 employees
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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web reposted this
📣🆕 Speaker Announcement: Summit Panelists We’re excited to share another speaker announcement for our Emerging Tech for Social Good Summit on March 20 in Washington, D.C. This panel brings together leaders from government, industry, nonprofit, and foundation backgrounds to discuss how emerging technologies can be intentionally deployed to serve the public good. Each brings a different perspective on how policy, innovation, and community needs intersect in the real world. Panelists include: • Stephanie Benedetto — CEO, Aloqia • Ben Bartlett — Councilmember, City of Berkeley • AJ Protin — Co-Founder and Executive Director, Project Own • Jacob Hample — Head of Global Government Affairs, Filecoin Foundation Looking forward to a thoughtful conversation about how cross-sector collaboration and intentional deployment can help shape the future of responsible tech. 🔗 RSVP: https://luma.com/CLTSG #TechForSocialGood #EmergingTech #DigitalPolicy #Innovation #DC #Blockchain
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Heading to Barcelona later this week for Mozilla Festival? 🚀 Join us on Sunday morning for our Flickr Foundation workshop on digital legacy and personal archiving 🌸 Fins allí!
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Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web reposted this
Earth Species Project is using AI to understand animal communication. And they're storing benchmark datasets training data on Filecoin. Here's why: BEANS-Zero is a benchmark dataset of bioacoustic recordings: whale songs, bird calls, frog croaks across hundreds of species. ESP used this dataset to evaluate NatureLM-audio, the first AI foundation model for bioacoustics. What the trained AI can now do: – Identify thousands of species by their vocalizations – Predict sex and life stages from sound – Uncover communication patterns scientists couldn't analyze before – All using natural language prompts (no coding required) So why store the evaluation dataset on Filecoin? Because AI breakthroughs depend on accessible data. If BEANS-Zero disappeared (server failure, lost funding, shutdown), no one could verify ESP's results or build on this research. Open science requires open infrastructure. Decentralized storage ensures: ✓ Results are reproducible and verifiable ✓ Data integrity is cryptographically proven ✓ Long-term availability doesn't depend on single institutions In collaboration with Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web, ESP demonstrates how serious science works. From understanding the long-distance calls of killer whales to the close-range exchanges of crows, this is how we unlock the language of the natural world.