At the WSIS+20 meeting at the #UnitedNations, German Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation Dr. Karsten Wildberger shared in his remarks Germany's commitment to a free, open, and interoperable global Internet and why it’s important that the Sovereign Tech Agency exists: to strengthen #digitalinfrastructure that is essential for modern societies and to enable prosperity and collaboration.
At the WSIS+20 meeting at the #UnitedNations, German Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation Dr. Karsten Wildberger shared in his remarks Germany's commitment to a free, open, and interoperable global Internet and why it’s important that the Sovereign Tech Agency exists: to strengthen #digitalinfrastructure that is essential for modern societies and to enable prosperity and collaboration.
Tim Chambers
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Who will maintain our digital future? On 3 Dec 2025 in Berlin, we’re hosting an event for the #SovereignTechFellowship. In 2025, this program has paid maintainers of essential #opensource projects, piloting a new model for supporting #digitalinfrastructure in the #publicinterest.
Join us to meet the inaugural fellows, learn lessons from the pilot year, and discuss with our expert panel on the impact of public sector fellowships for technologists.
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Kate Bowles
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Joining a new instance, posting a new #introduction.
After three years in the Fediverse, including two wonderful years at https://fediscience.org/@fresseng, I’m joining the first French instance that is both dedicated to and hosted by the academic community.
Academic and physicist, I also dabble in politics.
I will be posting about #openscience #fairdata #freesoftware #foss #CoARA #researchassesment #scientificintegrity #digitalinfrastructure ... and #Fediverse
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
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My meme dealer provided me these, thanks Beni!
A precarious construction of different rectangular blocks, about to be toppled. The illustration is titled "every conversation about dependencies since 2020". One essential small block, holding the whole construction in place is labeled "this fucking comic".
A precarious construction of different rectangular blocks, about to be toppled over by an angry bird. The illustration is titled "All modern digital infrastructure". Some of the blocks are labeled with AWS, cloudflate, AI, DNS and unpaid open source developers. There are many form blocks in the bottom of the construction, labeled with digital hardware infrastructure producers and money and the military in the very bottom.
A wasteland of toppled rectangular blocks. The illustration is titled "All modern digital infrastructure". Some of the blocks are labeled with AWS, cloudflate, AI, DNS and unpaid open source developers.
A precarious construction of different rectangular blocks, about to be toppled over by an angry bird. The illustration is titled "All modern digital infrastructure". Some of the blocks are labeled with AWS, cloudflate, AI, DNS and unpaid open source developers.
Joining a new instance, posting a new #introduction.
After three years in the Fediverse, including two wonderful years at https://fediscience.org/@fresseng, I’m joining the first French instance that is both dedicated to and hosted by the academic community.
Academic and physicist, I also dabble in politics.
I will be posting about #openscience #fairdata #freesoftware #foss #CoARA #researchassesment #scientificintegrity #digitalinfrastructure ... and #Fediverse
My meme dealer provided me these, thanks Beni!
A precarious construction of different rectangular blocks, about to be toppled. The illustration is titled "every conversation about dependencies since 2020". One essential small block, holding the whole construction in place is labeled "this fucking comic".
A precarious construction of different rectangular blocks, about to be toppled over by an angry bird. The illustration is titled "All modern digital infrastructure". Some of the blocks are labeled with AWS, cloudflate, AI, DNS and unpaid open source developers. There are many form blocks in the bottom of the construction, labeled with digital hardware infrastructure producers and money and the military in the very bottom.
A wasteland of toppled rectangular blocks. The illustration is titled "All modern digital infrastructure". Some of the blocks are labeled with AWS, cloudflate, AI, DNS and unpaid open source developers.
A precarious construction of different rectangular blocks, about to be toppled over by an angry bird. The illustration is titled "All modern digital infrastructure". Some of the blocks are labeled with AWS, cloudflate, AI, DNS and unpaid open source developers.
Who will maintain our digital future? On 3 Dec 2025 in Berlin, we’re hosting an event for the #SovereignTechFellowship. In 2025, this program has paid maintainers of essential #opensource projects, piloting a new model for supporting #digitalinfrastructure in the #publicinterest.
Join us to meet the inaugural fellows, learn lessons from the pilot year, and discuss with our expert panel on the impact of public sector fellowships for technologists.
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Who will maintain our digital future? On 3 Dec 2025 in Berlin, we’re hosting an event for the #SovereignTechFellowship. In 2025, this program has paid maintainers of essential #opensource projects, piloting a new model for supporting #digitalinfrastructure in the #publicinterest.
Join us to meet the inaugural fellows, learn lessons from the pilot year, and discuss with our expert panel on the impact of public sector fellowships for technologists.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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"It's not about winning the game. It's about owning the game. And infrastructure is power."
→ We all depend on the same foundational layer: protocols, languages, libraries, and tools
→ This cooperative layer enables competition and fast-moving innovation
→ The ecosystem embodies democratic values: participation, transparency, accountability
→ It emerged bottom-up from developers who built the digital world we use daily
Strengthening our #digitalcommons must be a strategic priority. We can't afford to lose this foundation or allow it to be monopolized.
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Adriana Groh speaking and projected on a large overhead screen at the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty
Adriana Groh speaking on a panel at the European Summit on Digital Sovereignty with David Amiel, Minister Delegate for the Civil Service and State reform, France
Thomas Jarzombek, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation, Germany
Art de Blaauw, CIO Dutch Central Government, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, The Netherlands
Alexander Pröll, State Secretary for Digitalisation, Federal Chancellery, Austria
Stéphanie Schaer, Director, French Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM), France
Corinne Cath, Digital Policy and Infrastructure Governance Expert
"It's not about winning the game. It's about owning the game. And infrastructure is power."