Unfortunate discussion now about how much #BuyEuropean should be considered, and in which surprisingly the European Parliament advisor Lukasz Klejnowski makes the important point that it can't be about the EU being fully autonomous.
Tech is global, the internet is global, and that's a good thing. And we can support and buy ethical tech globally as well.
Just listening to the speech of the @EUCommission's DG Connect Director Thibaut Kleiner, who celebrates #FOSS and the global ecosystem of #opensource developers as well as the #NGI programme but somehow his convictions seem to not be enough for the Commission to massively scale up investments in the #digitalcommons. What am I missing? 🤔
So cool to now also see @matrix's @Amandine at #NGIForum25 to speak about sovereign and secure messaging #infrastructure (and strongly warn against the nationalist version of the digital #sovereignty narrative 💪):
"Does self-sufficiency even make sense in a globalised and digitised world?"
EU tech Brussels really has come a long way :) 🎉
