I will attend the Next Generation Internet Forum in Brussels on Thursday and Friday.
This event is part of the @EUCommission’s Horizon Europe program, which probably has funded more free and open source software development than any other government program.
The next grant program framing is bizarre—Virtual Worlds and Web 4.0—but €14.5M available for “Open Internet Stack” dev.
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Hello from the EU Commission!
Dr. Monique Calisti kicking off Next Generation Internet Forum.
NGI continues for another year and half and then other Horizon Europe programs take over, I assume.
Agenda for the next 2 days: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/
NGI Policy Summit will be happening 2025-11-20 in Brussels to discuss how investments will be allocated in the future.
(Be prepared for many moiré projector photos. The moiré is rainbow for #PrideMonth.)
Sean Bohan from OpenWallet Foundation now presenting on how he still believes in Mozilla’s old slogan: The Web we want.
3 potential futures for digital wallets:
1. One wallet to rule them all: This is bad.
2. Every wallet is an app: Also bad.
3. Wallets are like browsers: Use the best wallet app for you with interoperable credentials.
If you want to know more what “Web 4.0” and “Open Internet Stack” actually means to the EU, the best information is contained within a customary PDF with an absurdly long URL instead of text on a website.
