Can Mastodon be the first big social network 'Made in Europe'?
Interesting read by @Meyer_Resende: https://euobserver.com/opinion/156395
Mastodon is much more than a company registered in Berlin with one employee — founder, chief executive and only shareholder, the young programmer Eugen Rochko. He designed Mastodon as open software that allows people and groups to build a network.
📣New €10m #journalism partnerships call for proposals supporting the resilience of the #news media sector, through actions that enhance cross-border collaboration among news #media organisations & pluralism in Europe 🤝🎙️
🗓️Deadline: 23 April 2023
The Commission continues to support the resilience of the news media sector with a third call for Journalism Partnerships. This year, the scope of the financing has been enlarged with a second action and the budget has been increased to €10 million.
Who is attending #IGF2022?
I'll be travelling to Addis next week to help facilitate 3 activities for the AU-EU #D4DHub:
1. A Town Hall debate on online disinformation
2. The launch of the knowledge platform #D4DAccess
3. A booth at the IGF Village
Please do join and get in touch if you're around!
More info: https://d4dhub.eu/events/igf2022
I am starting to freak up about #TwitterDown #RIPTwitter
Africa policy bubbles are not moving to #Mastodon (and I am yet to find any Africa-based servers). I don't want to use Meta products. LinkedIn is just boring.
Looking for ideas on how post-Twitter global communication can look like (beyond EU/US).
✍️#D4Dblogging competition is an original way to foster debate on how Africa & Europe can tackle #disinformation & promote human rights in the #digital age.
🏆Congratulations to all finalists & especially to the winner of the first prize @Salami_SJ 🇳🇬!
Digital EU 🇪🇺
