Google Workspace is taking yet another step towards providing the most secure and reliable productivity suite available. #GoogleWorkspace #ZeroTrust #DataLossPrevention #DigitalSovereignty #IlluminatiApproved http://www.techmeme.com/230823/p31#a230823p31

How #Copyleft licenses (like the #GPL) and #LibreSoftware aka #FOSS aka #FreeSoftware can help us all avoid #DigitalColonisation by proprietary US Big Tech & protect our #DigitalSovereignty via the founder of #NextCloud https://video.resolutions.it/w/4d5c5b1d-9613-4201-8d55-9e7906f42518 We need to break the cycle we're currently in. It's expensive, disempowering, & *brittle*. And it's unfit for purpose.

We have released #CollaboraOnline 23.05 for EGroupware
Highlights:
* Improved accessibility
* Dark Mode
* Page navigation
* Much more…
More details:
https://help.egroupware.org/t/de-uk-collabora-online-new-version-23-05/77818
Thanks to @CollaboraOffice
and the community (https://collaboraonline.github.io/) for the great work! 👍

#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #Collaboration #gdpr #officeproductivity #LibreOffice #LOTech

#EU #SocialMedia #DigitalSovereignty #Twitter: "I am convinced that as a start we urgently need a European alternative to Twitter, independent and public, able to manage data preserving the digital sovereignty of citizens and to create high quality content and journalism. The construction of this Euro-Twitter should be the task of the European public media broadcasters; to do this, they must be managed independently like central banks and take care to use and manage data, artificial intelligence, and algorithms in the public interest. They need to build a platform that offers an alternative to concentrating opinion-making power in a few hands. Which offers a survival space for independent media. We’ve already gotten it right with central bank autonomy. Why shouldn’t the digital knowledge society succeed in the field of information policy, opinion-forming, and citizen empowerment via democratic participation?"

https://medium.com/@francescabria/we-urgently-need-a-european-twitter-public-and-independent-cf6ac29d4a77

🌍 Unsurprisingly, neocolonizers #Google, #Facebook, #Microsoft, and #Amazon are rushing to control connectivity and infrastructure across #Africa.

💰 #DigitalSovereignty for Africa? Not likely anytime soon: We can't even escape them in the US or Europe given their corrupt regulatory capture.

https://african.business/2023/07/technology-information/can-africa-achieve-digital-sovereignty-in-an-era-of-big-tech

Heading to our 7th Tribal Broadband Bootcamp

Def one of the coolest programs we are involved with

#digitalequity #indigenous #digitalsovereignty #broadband #networks

https://www.indiantime.net/story/2023/07/27/news/tribal-broadband-bootcamp-comes-to-akwesasne/42798.html

@neurovagrant Learning #Matrix and running your own #homeserver is very rewarding. I run #Synapse for my family and personal social circle (the way social networking *should* be), and to connect to other Matrix #spaces and #rooms. This includes bridges to #irc, #slack, #discord, #signal, #SMS, and so on.. Matrix is a super good and flexible way to serve you and yours. We even utilize the #WebRTC functionality for #E2EE voice and video chats.
#digitalsovereignty should be way more popular. 😮‍💨

#AI #GenerativeAI #DigitalSovereignty #EU: "Developing your own AI costs a lot of money — which Macon-Cooney says governments might struggle with. “If you look at the economics side of this, I think there is a deep question of whether a government can actually begin to spend, let alone actually begin to get that expertise, in house,” he said. The U.K. announced, in its March 2023 budget, a plan to spend $1.1 billion on a new exascale supercomputer that would be put to work developing AI. A month later, it topped that up with an additional $124 million to fund an AI taskforce that will be supported by the Alan Turing Institute, a government-affiliated research center that gets its name from one of the first innovators of AI.

One solution to the money problem is to collaborate. “Sovereign initiatives can’t really work because any one nation or one organization is, unless they’re very, very rich, going to have trouble getting the talent to compute and the data necessary for training language models,” Luccioni said. “It really makes a lot of sense for people to pool resources.”

But working together can nullify the reason sovereign AIs are so attractive in the first place."

https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/legal-tools/sovereign-ai/

🌐💡 Dive into the Future with #Web3: Empowering Individuals, Revolutionizing Connectivity! 💪🚀

#Decentralization #Blockchain #Crypto #DigitalSovereignty #InternetRevolution

Together with 40 signatories, we urge the EU & Member States to invest in digital public infrastructure and #DigitalCommons to ensure Europe’s #DigitalSovereignty and a just digital transformation.
https://shared-digital.eu/statement/
#DemocraticInfrastructure

Europe’s quest for a sovereign cloud https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/podcast/europes-quest-for-a-sovereign-cloud/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #cloudservices #datasecurity #digitalsovereignty #JoeBaguley

Europe’s quest for a sovereign cloud https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/podcast/europes-quest-for-a-sovereign-cloud/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #cloudservices #datasecurity #digitalsovereignty #JoeBaguley

@EU_Commission Being able to run services like Mastodon, Peertube, my own e-mail or media server from home is, IMHO, essential for #DigitalSovereignty

Interesting to see how seemingly everyone at the #CriticalInfraLab conf understands #digitalSovereignty as referring to national / European digital sovereignty.

As opposed to individual digital sovereignty which isn't even mentioned.

Meet me in Brussels on April 25 to discover the future of open source cloud. https://events.eclipse.org/2023/unlockthecloud/
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RT @EclipseFdn
Unlock the cloud. Open new markets. The #OpenServicesCloud event in Brussels will give cloud services professionals an opportunity to learn how cloud interoperability can boost the competitiveness and #digitalsovereignty of the EU. Learn more: https://hubs.la/Q01L1CCR0 #opensource
https://twitter.com/EclipseFdn/status/1646062095660662785

Evening sorted!

Me, Thorsten Jelinek & Mini Eggs 🤪

#TheDigitalSovereigntyTrap
#DigitalSovereignty

New EGroupware Maintenance Release 23.1.20230328
More in extended release notes:
https://help.egroupware.org/t/egroupware-maintenance-release-23-1-20230328/77455

#Groupware #opensource #collaboration #DigitalSovereignty #Cloud #dataprivacy #Productivity #opensourcesoftware

We have released #CollaboraOnline 22.05.12 for EGroupware
More details:
https://help.egroupware.org/t/de-uk-update-collabora-online-22-05-12-4/77454
Thanks to Collabora Productivity
and the community (https://collaboraonline.github.io/) for the great work! 👍

#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #Collaboration #gdpr #officeproductivity #LibreOffice #LOTech

@hi_mayank My dream: the EU funds @igalia to take over some of the #Firefox devs cut by #Mozilla and shift FF development into Europe to increase its #digital #sovereignty. #digitalsovereignty #eu

United Kingdom Member of Parliament (MP) Andrew Bridgen's speech given and recorded in Parliament was censored by YouTube!
#digitalsovereignty
Luckily the internet is a peer-to-peer system designed to route around censorship, and his detailed and worrying speech can be found below, followed by a cookie-cutter response from the government that ignored every single one of his points.
https://rumble.com/v2dkxea-british-mp-andrew-bridgen-leads-an-adjournment-debate-on-the-efficacy-of-th.html