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Upcoming European office suite stack "Euro-office" was announced. It is not a single product, but a form of collaboration between Nextcloud, OpenProject, Xwiki and others. The interesting part is that for document editing they chose OnlyOffice, but instead of collaboration model, it was forked […]

Protect Canadian democracy: Sunset C-4! 🇨🇦’s political parties are using Bill C-4 to permanently exempt themselves from basic privacy law. We have days to force the House to accept the Senate’s sunset clause compromise. Tell your MP: respec...

Politicians SHOULD NOT be allowed to Opt-Out of privacy laws.
To prevent your email from being sent to the trash, and ensure your #concern is considered, copy the letter, make it your own & send from your own email account.
#DigitalSoverignty #DefendDemocracy #3rdPartyTracking
#C-4 #CdnPoli #Liberal

✨ This week we wrapped up sharing what we learned during our #ExplorationDays: ideas and questions we’ll keep carrying forward.

We shared a few threads with questions and also references and readings regarding #MovementBuilding #CommunityTech #DigitalSoverignty #AIRegulation and #NarrativeChange.

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RE: https://kind.social/@RavynWitch/116077255040317395

A decent line of printers that doesn't phone home, doesn't care who made its ink or toner, will not brick itself because capitalists got upset at not making enough profit, and basically Just Works should absolutely be part of Eurostack […]

tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org) Can't get sanctioned by other governments when you can just order Microsoft to sever their access to MS 365 thereby removing their access to email, document storage etc.

All the more reason for EU and beyond to get off US cloud services.

You wouldn't use Russian cloud services in 2026 🤷🏻‍♂️
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115830673005081570

#USPol #EU #Sanctions #DigitalSoverignty

Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam One topic dominated the recent 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, and it wasn't AI.

"Carrez explained: "... We have seen the very terms of exchange of goods changing almost every day. And as a response to that, in Europe, we're moving to digital sovereignty." That shift, in turn, means open-source software. "
www.zdnet.com/article/euro...
#openSource #digitalSoverignty #EU

Welcome development! Yet here in Ireland, every college I attended requires students to download MS Auth. app on mobile device to access student portals. This is a worrying level of vendor lock-in to US tech now aided by US govt intent on global subservience to their technology. #digitalsoverignty.

Austria's armed forces switch to LibreOffice The Austrian Armed Forces have been preparing for the switch to LibreOffice for a long time. Other LibreOffice users will also benefit from this.

Austria's military takes a step towards digital sovereignty. They are switching to LibreOffice not for monetary reasons, but because they seem the importance of keeping control of their own data. #security #libreoffice #opensource #sovereignty #DigitalSoverignty #Austria #privacy

Our view on digital sovereignty A thought leadership article by Mike Bracken MBE on Public Digital's view on digital sovereignty

Great to see this #PublicDigital work on #DigitalSoverignty public.digital/pd-insights/blog/2025/07...

There is a lot here which governments should be digging into.

Our view on digital sovereignty A thought leadership article by Mike Bracken MBE on Public Digital's view on digital sovereignty

Great to see this @publicdigital.bsky.social work on #DigitalSoverignty public.digital/pd-insights/...

There is a lot here which governments should be digging into.

Indeed. I work in gov and Microsoft is what’s used. And the investment we’ve placed in M365 and with it Co-Pilot is just such a gross miscalculation at this point in history. #digitalSoverignty