Talking & connecting is a basic human need, so why should we allow our online interaction to be seized by companies that (by commercial design) are after personal data? Especially for public services like national/European administration citizens deserve to connect in a way that serves them, instead of data-hungry third parties.
NGI Zero is happy to announce a series of webinars and a workshop organized together with the #ActivityPub-community & #fediverse-devs on April 19, 26 and 29.
Through the webinars and the workshop we aim to showcase to national and European administrations how #ActivityPub and the #fediverse can help institutions retake their online presence.
Co-authors and advocates of #ActivityPub together with #fediverse-devs will engage with representatives of EU-institutions (European Commission, European Data Protection Supervisor, European Parliament) about the possibilities of federation and how the EC can share important news on the fediverse.
If you want to help out or suggest topics, please join #Socialhub (socialhub.activitypub.rocks) and join the conversation about the need for federation and interoperability for national and EU-entities to break away from walled social gardens.
This message needs to be heard now, since the need for federation is resonating in EU and EC-circles, for example with the GDPR-watchdog EDPS and questions posed by European members of parliament like @[email protected] (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-005987_EN.pdf)
NGI Zero open source funding