Given the #DigitalCoup and the urgency to transition to #DigitalAutonomy, we’re building up the https://DemocraticTech.Fund. It is a networked approach, aiming to increase our collective capacity, to discover the tech that is already available to us, to deploy it in ways that we can own it, to share learnings of the transition, to move there together, so we can overcome network effects.

It is our intention to identify together the gaps of what is needed to make the transition, to fund that collectively. This can be tech, media to raise awareness for the positive alternatives already out there, and federating our communities. We’re starting as civil society, and we intent to invite institutions – public and private – to chip in and multiply the contributions. Together we can make the impact that is needed.

#DemocraticTechFund #dtf

In the context of the #DigitalCoup Denmark is working towards #DigitalSovereignty.

See report: therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independence

Interestingly, they have a Minister for Digitalisation. They start with LibreOffice, "with a full transition to open-source software by the end of the year."

Motivations are (licensing) costs and political tensions, to protect data and reduce reliance on foreign tech.

Of course MS can waive the upcoming licensing costs, and they might return to US tech dependency. But many governments are now making similar, or more audacious transitions.

I wonder why the Danes didn't yet join the EDIC for Digital Commons? There's important shared investments being made, e.g. in collaborative workspaces...

Cc @DigitalCoup #EDIC #OpenDesk #LaSuite

#CaroleCadwalladr: 'This is a #digitalcoup'

#TED 2025

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE&pp=ygUWY2Fyb2x5biBjYWR3YWxsZHIgMjAyNQ%3D%3 D

#Tech #techfascism #technocracy #farright #extrêmedroite #greed #inequality #classwar #techbillionaires #billionairesSUCK

#Broligarchy #autocracy #SiliconValleyIsEVIL#techsurveillance #totalitarianism

Good overview RT @Wtebbens: "The Accelerated Construction of Techno-Authoritarian Infrastructure"

This is the first in a series of articles examining BigTech’s threats to democratic society and exploring pathways forward.

https://freeknowledge.eu/accelerated-construction-techno-authoritarian-infra

#ExtremeRight #BigTech #GAFAM #DigitalCoup #TechnoAuthoritarianism #Collapse #Resistance

"The Accelerated Construction of Techno-Authoritarian Infrastructure"

This is the first in a series of articles examining BigTech’s threats to democratic society and exploring pathways forward.

https://freeknowledge.eu/accelerated-construction-techno-authoritarian-infra

#ExtremeRight #BigTech #GAFAM #DigitalCoup #TechnoAuthoritarianism #Collapse #Resistance

A #MustWatchVideo

This is a #DigitalCoup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE&pp=ygUaY2Fyb2xlIGNhZHdhbGxhZHIgdGVkIHRhbGs%3D

#TED May 2025

#CaroleCadwalladr : This is What A Digital Coup Looks Like

And this is a Ted talk from 5 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSMr-3GGvQ&pp=ygUaY2Fyb2xlIGNhZHdhbGxhZHIgdGVkIHRhbGs%3D

#Broligarchs #BillionairesSUCK #ClassWar #Techfeudalism #AI #Fascism #TechFascism #GlobalFascism #PrivacyIsPower

This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE

#DigitalCoup #Broligarchy #Oligarchy #authoritarianism

Carole Cadwalladr: "It’s not too late to stop Trump and the tech broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now"
#carolecadwalladr #digitalcoup #privacy #authoritarianism #nodataday

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/apr/20/carole-cadwalladr-ted-talk-this-is-what-a-digital-coup-looks-like-its-not-too-late-to-stop-trump-and-the-silicon-valley-broligarchy-from-controlling-our-lives-but-we-must-act-now