Hello, Alex --thank you for your kind message and interest in the ASF's Responsible AI Initiative.
Of course: we're happy to learn more about INICIA Civic AI Commons. When would you like to connect? With warm regards, Sally - - - Vice President Sponsor Relations The Apache Software Foundation Tel +1 617 921 8656 | [email protected] <mailto:sk%40apache.org> On Thu, Aug 13, 2026, at 13:18, Direccion Inicia wrote: > Dear Apache Community Development / Sponsor Relations Team, > > My name is Alex Vdovenko and I represent Inicia Foundation, a non-profit > organization based in Spain working on education, social inclusion and > public-interest initiatives. > > We are currently developing a new open-source initiative called INICIA Civic > AI Commons. > > The objective is to develop responsible, transparent and community-governed > AI tools that can help civil-society organizations work with public > information, social programmes, public-interest data and other open resources. > > We were particularly interested in the Apache Software Foundation's > Responsible AI Initiative and its focus on secure, transparent and publicly > governed open-source infrastructure for AI. > > At this stage, we are not seeking financial support from Apache. We would > first like to understand how an organization such as ours could responsibly > engage with the Apache ecosystem, contribute to relevant Apache communities, > and potentially develop a European civil-society use case around Responsible > AI and open-source technologies. > > We are particularly interested in exploring potential connections with Apache > projects related to data processing, search, document processing, distributed > systems and AI/ML infrastructure. > > We would be grateful for a short introductory conversation with the > appropriate person or project community. > > We would also be interested in exploring the possibility of organizing a > European Responsible AI / Civic Tech workshop or hackathon involving > civil-society organizations, universities and open-source contributors. > > I would be happy to send a short concept note describing the initiative. > > Kind regards, > > Alex Vdovenko > Inicia Foundation > Spain
