This message is intended for Canadian #Mastodon admins who are running public instances large and small. If you are an admin, please share with your counterparts. If you are a member of a Canadian instance, please send this to your admin.
A small group of us (Note: really, really small) are in early discussions on how to encourage our government - individual politicians & federal, provincial, and municipal departments - to move their social media presence to Mastodon. This would involve an awareness campaign targeting politicians, party HQs, and departments/agencies.
We are asking for input from admins to help us create a future state vision for this project, and provide us with advice or ideas on how to bring it to a reality. I will set up a web call within the next 3 weeks and hopefully you can participate. We are not asking you to contribute beyond input. Please DM me and I will add you to the invitees.

#mastoadmin
#MastodonCanada
#MastoCanadaGOV (hashtag for this project)

CC: @ZebKing

@paulbusch @ZebKing

Maybe the following (non-exhaustive) list of governments who are active in the #fediverse with their own Mastodon servers is also useful:

DE πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ:
- https://social.bund.de
- https://social.schleswig-holstein.de
FR πŸ‡«πŸ‡·: https://social.numerique.gouv.fr
NL πŸ‡³πŸ‡±:
- https://social.overheid.nl
- https://social.amsterdam.nl
EU πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί:
- https://ec.social-network.europa.eu
- https://curia.social-network.europa.eu
- https://social.edps.europa.eu

social.bund.de

Dies ist der Mastodon-Server der Bundesbeauftragten fΓΌr den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI).

Mastodon hosted on social.bund.de

@paulbusch @ZebKing

PS The Dutch NREN SURF (probably comparable to CANARIE) also set up a Mastodon instance for the Dutch research and education sector: https://social.edu.nl. For background info: https://www.surf.nl/en/mastodon-pilot-for-research-and-education

PPS The Q&A on https://social.overheid.nl/about and the info on https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/overzicht-van-alle-onderwerpen/mastodon-overheid/ (although in Dutch) might also be useful.

SURF Mastodon

This is the Mastodon server run by SURF for the Dutch research and education community - more info https://surf.nl/mastodon-pilot

Mastodon hosted on social.edu.nl

@bartknubben @paulbusch @ZebKing

We provide Mastodon as a national (digital) cooperative organization.
πŸ’š Set it up properly once and maintain it well.
πŸ’š Let users focus on using it.
πŸ’š Let organizations mainly see what it is and how it works.
πŸ’š By using single sign-on instead of a username/password, you can use existing organizational accounts to log in with a low barrier to entry! (180 institutions and 1 million students, researchers and employee’s can make use of it)

https://www.eua.eu/our-work/expert-voices/the-digitally-sovereign-university-and-social-media.html

The digitally sovereign university and social media

EUA - European University Association