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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.

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Mindaugas 1d 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

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Mindaugas

@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)

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