What an extraordinary year 2024 has been!
We’ve thoroughly enjoyed connecting with all of you at various gatherings worldwide to explore the vital topic of a long-term strategy surrounding digital commons in Europe.
This collaborative journey has been truly enriching, allowing us to share ideas and perspectives on how we can collectively shape a brighter digital future in Europe. Let’s continue fostering this spirit of innovation and cooperation as we move forward into the new year!
We have some exciting news ahead!
Our proposal at FOSDEM has been accepted for the following session: “Digital Commons as Pillars of Digital Sovereignty in Europe” in the Open Source in The European Legislative Landscape and Beyond at FOSDEM on 3-4 February 2025.
Our partners will be giving a talk about “Open Source for Good! Driving Achievement of the UN SDGs” and the “Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding on Open Source Software Development“, will be presented by some of their authors at FOSS Backstage in Berlin on 10-11 March 2025.
The NGI Commons project will contribute to the following outcomes expected by HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-04 Call: Next Generation Internet Commons Policy:
- stronger integration of the NGI initiative and its vision and ecosystem with the digital/internet commons policies at the national and European levels,
- a long-term strategy for digital/internet commons based on a clear mapping of existing communities of commoners and commons,
- smooth articulation of bottom-up activities of European commoners’ communities and top-down policy priorities (e.g., reuse of commons, avoiding overlaps), and
- a more coherent funding landscape integrating national and European dimensions from public and private sectors.