It's so cool (and about time) to see European ministers advocate for #digitalsovereignty 🔥

[gina@fosstodon.org]

It's so cool to see European ministers advocate for #digitalsovereignty 🔥

Currently on stage are Germany's and France's Ministers for Digital Affairs, talking about the necessity of funding EU alternatives. Later today our Dutch gov's CIO will talk about the EDIC, a consortium in which we build sovereign digital commons together (like #MijnBureau). The day ends with keynotes from French pres Macron and German Chancellor Merz.

#opensource is def having it's moment in Europe 🇪🇺 #EUsummit25

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@Gina it's about time! So amazing to finally see this momentum building 🥳

[gina@fosstodon.org]

The panel "The Power of Digital Commons: Building Europe's Shared Digital Future" talks about EU collaboration on open source alternatives 🤝

Our Dutch gov CIO Art de Blaauw talks about the EDIC, in which EU countries work together on sovereign workspace software such as La Suite, OpenDesk and MijnBureau. The official EDIC launch will be in The Hague on December 11th. 🇪🇺

Also there; Adriana Groh from the @sovtechfund

#EUsummit25 #opensource #foss #digitalsovereignty

[gina@fosstodon.org]

I really liked the message from @C__CS (Dr. Corinne Cath), from Article 19. Paraphrased:

"Open source solutions without infrastructure is a democratic illusion. Right now there's a massive outage at Cloudflare, which means that many website are inaccessible. Last month there have been other outages with similar impact. This is a democratic crisis dressed up as a technical failure."

#digitalsovereignty #EUsummit25

[photovince@mastodon.social]

@Gina @sovtechfund Will these talks be online that you know?

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@photovince @sovtechfund it was livestreamed but idk if they will also be uploaded somewhere (they prob will be)