Open Risk

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116345677794218793

The cynical take is that the current furore about #digitalsovereignty focuses on cloud and office software procurement by the public sector only because there exist some European providers that could gain market share.

Mobile-linked identity and payments is super essential for vast numbers of Europeans, but since there is hardly any competitor to the US duopoly, everybody just keeps quiet as if it's a non-issue.

This is non-sensical. Mobile sovereignty should be at the very top of the agenda.

Apr 4 at 7:48pmWeb
Show threadMindaugas20h ago
@openrisk I don't think it is 'cynical', instead I am so glad that some alternatives exist (office etc.), so they need to be adopted & improved (which is hard task already), so this is there the focus lies.
https://mastodon.0011.lt/@mindaugas/116159358684183096
Show threadMindaugas20h ago

@openrisk ...and concerning eIDAS specifically, this has to be fixed/demanded to work with android alternatives without google account.

Degoogled android is even funded by EU https://e.foundation/ngi-mobifree-project-raises-4-4-million-eurosfor-open-source-projects-development/

(but it is not funded because of EU / politicians / bureaucrats / voters for the most part (who can't be called 'cynical', because care little to begin with), but because some amount of people who cared about it to make this happen (like business, NGOs, open source, some bureaucrats and politicians...)

So, to be more specific, people need to demand this to be fixed to work with degoogled android (and a higher-tier complexity task is to demand eiDAS work be funded for Linux phone implementation as well)

@pojntfx

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Show threadOpen Risk20h ago

@mindaugas

Of course existing solutions should be adopted, that is the least we can do.

But there are dramatic gaps. Mobile is the most obvious but there are many others, and there is total silence about those.

If you try to build your own car and you are missing both engine and wheels, the car will not go very far 🤣

What is required in many areas is targeted, massive public investment to build things from scratch. But Europe is afraid it will be accused of interfering with "markets".