Tuta
@Tutanota@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

Europe’s at a digital crossroads.

Big Tech’s “Sovereign Clouds” are a Trojan Horse - servers in the EU, but still under US law (CLOUD Act, FISA): https://tuta.com/blog/sovereign-washing

True digital sovereignty means European tech.

Together with @ecosia#Wire#MeisterTask and @Mastodon we want to empower businesses, governments and administrations to choose technology that protects Europe’s future.

#DigitalSovereignty is just #oneclickaway 👇

Quotes from EU politicians talking about digital sovereignty to launch the #oneclickaway campaign
Quotes from EU politicians talking about digital sovereignty to launch the #oneclickaway campaign
Soverin
@soverin@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

In this interview with Eurofiber’s Elisabeth Hankeln and Soverin’s Diana Krieger, the message is clear: if Europe wants to stay in control of its data, we need to build and support our own infrastructure.

Europe has the talent, the regulation, and the market. Now it’s about execution. The building blocks are already here—let’s connect them.

Read the (Dutch) article via: https://itchannelpro.nl/elisabeth-hankeln-eurofiber-en-diana-krieger-soverin-over-digitale-soevereiniteit/

#OpenInternet#DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanTech#CloudIndependence
Miguel Afonso Caetano
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

"To create a European public internet, it's neither necessary nor desirable to have your digital life operated by the EU and its member states, nor by its private contractors. Instead, the EU could make Eurostack a provider of technological public goods.

For example, the EU could work to improve federated social media systems, like Mastodon and Bluesky. EU coders could contribute to the server and client software for both. They could participate in future versions of the standard. They could provide maintenance code in response to bug reports, and administer bug bounties. They could create tooling for server administrators, including moderation tools, both for Mastodon and for Bluesky, whose "composable moderation" system allows users to have the final say over their moderation choices. The EU could perform and/or fund labelling work to help with moderation.

The EU could also provide tooling to help server administrators stand up their own independent Mastodon and Bluesky servers.
(...)
In addition to improving federated social media, the EU and its member states can and should host their own servers, both for their own official accounts and for public use. Giving the public a digital home is great, especially if anyone who chafes at the public system's rules can hop onto a server run by a co-op, a friend group, a small business or a giant corporation with just a couple clicks, without losing any of their data or connections.

This is essential facilities sharing for services. Combine it with public data centers and tooling for migrating servers from and to the public server to a private, or nonprofit, or co-op data-center, and you've got the equivalent of publicly available conduit, data-centers, and fiber.

In addition to providing code, services and hardware, the EU can continue to provide regulation to facilitate the public internet."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/25/eurostack/#viktor-orbans-isp

#EU#PublicInternet#DigitalSovereignty#Decentralization#SocialMedia
Felix Schönbrodt
@nicebread@scicomm.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

For centuries, we had public infrastructure for texts (called "libraries").
Recently, this has been extended to data (called "repositories").

We need to extend that to some software, developed and maintained as a free public good.
Why? Because we need it for a functioning society.

Smart societies would sustainably fund some open source software as critical infrastructure.
For example, research grants could set aside 2 % of their budget to support the open-source software they rely on.

( @sovtechfund is a shining example 👏)
#DigitalSovereignty#OpenScience#RSEng#SaveSocial#FLOSS
UniversityofGroningenLibrary
@Bibliothecaris@social.edu.nl  ·  activity timestamp last month

📢Symposium on 25-9: #Academia at the #digital crossroads. Opportunities, risks, and #AcademicFreedom in the age of #BigTech & #AI

🔗https://www.rug.nl/library/calendar/250925-academia-at-the-digital-crossroads

Opening: @universityofgroningen Rector Jacquelien Scherpen

Lectures: Tamar Sharon & Juliette Schaafsma

Panel w/ Michiel Kolman (Elsevier)
@FleurZeldenrust (Young Academy NL)
David Cheruiyot ( @YAGroningen)
Nolda Tipping-Griffioen ( @CIT_RUG)
Marijke Folgering ( @Bibliothecaris)
Host: Titus Stahl @tstahl

#OpenScience#DigitalSovereignty

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Jan Penfrat
@ilumium@eupolicy.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

For weeks I have been telling reporters that #Trump could have the power to switch off our tech in #Europe. It felt a bit alarmist until I just read that #Microsoft, on the behest of the #US gov, has suspended the email account of Karim Khan, the #ICC chief prosecutor.

One of the most important international courts and a legal bulwark against #genocide, crimes against humanity, and #warcrimes is threatened by #BigTech dependency.

https://apnews.com/article/icc-trump-sanctions-karim-khan-court-a4b4c02751ab84c09718b1b95cbd5db3

#DigitalSovereignty#FOSS#EthicalTech

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Jan Penfrat
@ilumium@eupolicy.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
#DigitalSovereignty doesn't mean tech for sovereign nations, it means tech for sovereign people.

Tech in the hands of a European billionaire class is hardly any better than what we have now.

Free it up, give people control, open source it, decentralise it, remove choke points and gatekeepers, encrypt all the things, remove the #SurveillanceAds industry from the equation, enable #SelfHosting and #SmallTech. And then let's talk #GoEuropean.