On 30th September 2025, civil society actors, researchers, technologists, and policymakers gathered in Brussels for the Privacy Camp—an annual event focused on the intersection of digital rights, technology governance, and democratic values.
The European Commission yesterday announced the establishment of the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (DC-EDIC) — a new initiative…
The NGI Commons consortium is pleased to announce the Digital Commons Policy Summit 2025: Digital Commons and the Open Internet Stack for a Competitive Europe. This two-day event will take place on November 20-21, 2025 at the European Commission DG CNECT headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.
The new policy brief from Open Future Foundation outlines five specific policy interventions that leverage the 2028–2034 MFF to advance Europe’s digital sovereignty.
This second interview is with Decidim, which is leading the charge in showing how Digital Commons can work at scale as infrastructure. Decidim is an open source participatory democracy platform that enables citizens, organisations, and governments to collaboratively propose, debate, and decide on policies and community initiatives.
On July 9th and 10th, the NGI Commons consortium convened in Milan for a landmark General Assembly, reaffirming its commitment…
On June 19th, NGI Commons kicked off the NGI Forum 2025 in Brussels. As the flagship event of the European…
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Digital Commons as a concept is sometimes perceived as fuzzy or redundant. A few months ago, CNRS Centre Internet et Société, a key consortium partner in the NGI Commons initiative released a compelling research report exploring the evolution, practices, and governance of Digital Commons.
NGI Commons consortium partners OpenForum Europe and Open Future, represented by Nicholas Gates and Aditya Singh respectively, attended the Digital…
The Matrix.org Foundation and Element are a pair of sister organisations which help steward the ecosystem for the Matrix protocol. They are paving the way in securing our way forward with encrypted messaging and providing an alternative to other messaging services.
20-21 November 2025 | Brussels & online
