Given the growing awareness of the Digital Coup and the intolerable threats by authoritarian tech, we are hosting a series of community sessions about how we can organise tech differently, in favour of public values, with cooperation and commoning as its foundations.
As you may know, several European governments have set up the EDIC for Digital Commons, a kind of a cooperative between member states, with a mission to “pool resources across member states to reduce technological dependency”.
Under its umbrella they are working together to develop collaborative workspaces for government agencies and public institutions, building on the best open source web applications, and developing new ones, integrating and improving them. Most notably #LaSuite by DINUM @numerique_gouv, #OpenDesk by @zendis and #MijnBureau by the Dutch @minbzk