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What is the biggest barrier to stronger digital sovereignty in public administration today?
Political will
73.6%
Budget & procurement
3.4%
Technical concerns
5.1%
No awareness of alternatives
17.9%
Poll ended at .
Mar 24 at 1:47pmWeb
Show threadNextcloud 📱☁️💻4d ago

Europe is shifting away from #BigTech platforms towards #sovereign and open software. 💪

Our case studies include public institutions such as the Italian Veneto Region, the City of Stuttgart, the Republic of Serbia, and the Austrian Ministry of Economy.

Read the stories:👇
https://nextcloud.com/customers/

Show threadKlaudia (aka jinxx)4d ago
@nextcloud All of the above. Plus fear of the "human costs", that people's laziness or believes in Big Tech will stop them to move along with the change.
Show threadTod dem Faschismus4d ago
@nextcloud
private property of the means of production
Show threadfiredragon4d ago

@nextcloud

People's unwillingnes to refuse to comply.

Freedom starts by not complying with tyrannical democracies.

Show threaddirtside3d ago
@nextcloud you left out "hostile opposition by billionaires"
Show threadjose3d ago
@nextcloud hope you guys can wins more public/private adoption in EU ( and outside) There is a quite a lot public institutes even forces in EU with MS solution !! we need more tech enthusiasts into EU parliament, real ones! almost with a mastodon account 😅
Show threadphilosophizes whilst swimming3d ago

@nextcloud I think standard practice in big organizations is to get solutions provided by big well-known providers who wrap everything in a big blanket of comfort. IBM in the day. Adobe now. My university is a Microsoft shop.

Comfort is things like support, predicted lifetime of the systems, community of users, ease of installation, conversion, maintenance.

What happens if all your skilled people leave? Who do you call?

Pay the money make it easy.

Show threadBjarkeSS3d ago
@nextcloud seen from my perspective. The institutions is gaining nothing from this shift other then more work.. it is just easier to stay..
Show threadMarkus Udosson Bo3d ago
@nextcloud „Decision“ Makers
Show threadMormegil1d ago
@nextcloud
For a specific example, see @keddie and his story of attempts to introduce Mastodon to official Czech government channels: https://www.profant.eu/blog/stripky-z-vlady-1/ (sorry, Czech only)
Střípky z vlády 1: Fediverse

V letech 2022–2024 jsem zastával roli náměstka vicepremiéra pro digitalizaci. V této serii se pokusím poodhalit nějaké ty historky z pozadí fungování státního kolosu. Dnes o digitální suverenitě a nasazování decentralizované sociální sítě.

Profant
Show threadOndřej Profant12h ago

@mormegil @nextcloud In case of Czech republic one of the problem is also lack of suppliers. Proprietary SW has strong continous push from suppliers, but for opensource is problem to find support.

Not so much case od Mastodon, but NextCloud yes.