Hardy Erlinger1d ago

@bert_hubert delivers a very thoughful discussion of what really needs to happen to achieve digital autonomy in Europe:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-civil-society-need-progress-digital-autonomy/

There is a long way ahead, but I am more hopeful than ever. Public opinion is finally changing and that makes it easier to argue in favour of change.

#sovereignity #autonomy #eu

Edit: typo

EU & Civil Society need to progress on Digital Autonomy - Bert Hubert's writings

By now (happily) everyone wants to talk about digital autonomy, although some parties insist we talk about sovereignty. Fine. tl;dr: The discussions on digital autonomy are now going round in circles. Civil society and think tanks want to contribute, and are well placed to do so. In this piece, I urge everyone to look further ahead, beyond legislation and talking about European values. The road to digital sovereignty is very long, and we need to make progress along that entire road, which includes things further afield than what we are discussing now.

Bert Hubert's writings
si_iriniJun 7

Digital sovereignty for Europe
Now

#mastodon #fediverse #YouWinAgainSi #europe #world #sovereignity #EU #politics #tech #technology

Florian Jun 3

@EUCommission

How awesome to see the Tech Sovereignity plan grow!

How about taking some first leap and actually promote it on your official channel (too)?

#DIDay #DUT #sovereignity

Hardy ErlingerJun 3

The #fediverse is part of The EU Open Source Strategy outlined in [1]:

From the document:

"Support uptake of open source alternatives to proprietary solutions together with Member States and the Digital Commons EDIC — cloud, workplace tools, secure e-mail, decentralised social media."

I like that it explicitly says "decentralised social media". They are not simply calling for European alternatives to centralised social media services, but demanding theses be decentralised as well. Very nice.

[1] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/open-source-strategy

#eu #opensource #sovereignity

The EU Open Source Strategy

The EU Open Source Strategy places open source at the centre of the EU’s technological sovereignty by promoting European open alternatives to non-EU proprietary solutions in critical domains.

Shaping Europe’s digital future
Show threadRegisJun 2

@maximilianhenning @euractiv Well, I guess every journey starts with a first step...

Anything that may help the MEPs swe for themselves that digital #sovereignity actually works, may encourage them to go further with sovereign cloud and tools.

Qwant is a good start but let's hope they will not stop at this.

Tof'MichaelsJun 2

Europeans, do climb out of your caves and make a plan !

https://video.infosec.exchange/w/rTQYZNQ3ZCssXFiF32dQbN

Europeans, do climb out of your caves and make a plan !

PeerTube
CambionnJun 1

I noticed today that #MSOffice Online now has an option to save files as #odt instead of #pttx. It made me wonder, can we change our files at work to open formats and still have the MS using colleagues use them properly? That would be a great step !

Sadly, it seems not. Saving in MS Office breaks a lot of design in the files. Opening the pttx in @libreoffice works perfectly fine. Saving from there as odt does as well. But then MS Office considers the working odt file "corrupt", disallowing online view.

Seems like MS Office their implementation of open document standards are still lacking, so for anything requiring collaboration with MS Office users we're still stuck in proprietary formats. Sad .

#Microsoft #proprietary #openstandard #openstandaarden #opensource #LibreOffice #sovereignity #digitaleautonomie #digitalesoevereiniteit

Joachim WibergMay 30

RE: https://linuxrocks.online/@Linux/116657894663539110

Well it was time, my trusted old iPhone mini (last gen.) is giving up on life, and I've been curious about Jolla + Sailfish OS for quite a while!

#linux #mobilelinux #sovereignity #europe

CambionnMay 26

Best news of #today, and probably of the recent period. Our government is blocking the sale of the hoster of #DigiD after all!

All our fighting to keep the data of milions of #Dutch citizen outside of foreign hands has paid of. Time to party 🥳🎉🎉🎉 .

https://berthub.eu/tkconv/document.html?nummer=2026D24647

#privacy #netherlands #thenetherlands #digitalsovereignity #sovereignity #digitaleAutonomie #digitaleSoevereiniteit #good #goodnews

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Show threadRastalMay 14

@PoliticalCartoon The guy on the left, is the only person on earth, who can do this and pull it off. The only person capable of saying No to Trump/US and their country emerges stronger for saying No.

Any other leader, anywhere on earth, cannot say No to America. They aren't leaders, they are puppets of US.

However you feel about Khamenei, seeing someone say No to America, and having their country emerge stronger for it, is beautiful.

#iran #iranwar #sovereignity