Hi Fediverse!👋 We're Volt Europa, a pan-European political party building a federal, green, and progressive Europe. 🇪🇺
We believe in digital sovereignty, transparency, and putting people before platforms. Sound familiar? That's precisely why we're here.
We're not just looking for another channel to broadcast on. We chose this space because it reflects what we stand for: open, decentralised, and community-driven. We want to be part of this, not just present on it.
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> We believe in digital sovereignty
Could you share what this means to you, please, and what steps you would take to get there?
@[email protected] To us, digital sovereignty means exactly this: the ability of individuals, organisations, and governments to maintain real control over their own data, infrastructure, and technology.
Not a vague aspiration. An actual capacity. Right now, too many of our institutions depend on a handful of corporations or foreign states for critical systems. That dependency is a political vulnerability. We think Europe can and should fix it.
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Concretely, three steps:
1. Public funds, public code: Software built with tax money must be published under a free and open-source licence.
2. Open standards, not walled gardens: Procurement rules should require open standards, so no vendor can hold governments or users captive.
3. European jurisdiction: Critical data and infrastructure must be governed by European law, with real accountability.
What would you prioritise?
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@VoltEuropa A lesson I learned from the folks who worked out in Africa and the like bringing technology. You are missing 4)
4) Maintainable and replicable entirely within the EU by EU citizens
It's no good publishing something you can't maintain or that depends on some piece of US or Chinese specific hardware in a way you can't trivially fix.
If it's not maintainable and replicable you are not materially improving the situation.
Volt Europa
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