Tomorrow in The Hague, EU Member States launch a new international organisation, one that invests in and cares for #DigitalCommons and open source. The EDIC for Digital Commons is a long term commitment and strategy to help governments transition to open source, work with the communities and strengthen the ecosystem. Much needed.
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@Wtebbens this is good to hear, perhaps we will have less of important parts used by everyone being supported by one person in a basement
@Wtebbens Maybe we're lucky that Silicon Valley is in the USA?
Digital Commons panel kicked off by @SophieB posing #DigitalCommons as a way to keep us on track. Also think of open protocols to assure a level playing field and interoperability. Key for #DigitalSovereignty
Bert Hubert poses the relation between Digital Commons and digital autonomy: the first guarantees the 2nd, not necessarily vice versa.
His slides:
https://berthub.eu/dc-edic/
Virgile Deville presents Docs, the collaborative document editing app; one year old, open source, born at DINUM, key part of the open desk collaboration inside the DC-EDIC.
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Henri Verdier, "founding father" of the DC-EDIC, former digital ambassador of France.
He's happy that the EDIC is launched in The Hague, also seat of the International Criminal Court. The ICC judge lost access to his credit cards and all US platforms after sanctions imposed bij Trump.
Opening by Art de Blaauw, CIO of the Dutch national government. Regain digital power - Digital Commons EDIC.
@Wtebbens I hope they get some decent funding.
In 2023, together with @SophieB and Paul Keller we brought the DC-EDIC's "founding father" @HenriVerdier to the @publicspaces Conference, together with @marietjeschaake, @krakenbuerger and Adriana Groh from @sovtechfund , @ron_roozendaal @kimvsparrentak and Simona de Heer
https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/investing-in-digital-commons
Its 4 main priorities: 1) Strengthen EU Digital sovereignty, 2) Promote a multi-stakeholder and inclusive model of digital governance, 3) Contribute to the development of a digital public space, and 4) Make Europe a leading player in the digital transition through digital commons.
