3/4 We ask @ec.europa.eu to
- strengthen resilience and reliability of #DigitalInfrastructure with a European Sovereign Tech Fund
- realise *open* technological sovereignty through #OpenSource
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3/4 We ask @ec.europa.eu to
- strengthen resilience and reliability of #DigitalInfrastructure with a European Sovereign Tech Fund
- realise *open* technological sovereignty through #OpenSource
…
Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away
By @robin & Cori Crider
About the recent fail by @EUCommission on #EU tech infrastructure, the backbone of our economy and democracy
"Enforcing the EU’s laws, reclaiming a fair share of the value extracted by #monopolies, breaking them up to unfreeze markets and using the proceeds to invest in our #digitalinfrastructure could be exactly the kind of economic reset #Europe needs."
https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-sovereignty-us-brussels-belgium-trade-talks-tech/
https://www.alojapan.com/1310307/japan-enacts-active-cyber-defense-law-to-neutralise-threats/ Japan enacts Active Cyber Defense Law to neutralise threats #Australia(Australian) #CriticalInfrastructure #CyberAttacks #CyberResilience #CyberThreats #cyberattacks #cybersecurity #DigitalInfrastructure #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #NationalSecurity #news #Privacy #transparency #UnitedKingdom(UK) #UnitedStates(US) Japan has ushered in a new era for its cybersecurity landscape after the National Diet passed the Active Cyber Defen…
Let’s shift the conversation—from launching tools to sustaining ecosystems.
#UNOSW #DigitalInfrastructure #UNOpenSourceWeek
(3/3)
How can Europe better secure the open #digitalinfrastructure that underpins its public services, or #digitaleconomy?
We are delighted to announce the next #EOSA Webinar, #OpenSource for #Cybersecurity: Securing and Maintaining Europe's Open Source Dependencies.
This webinar looks at how Europe's cybersecurity and digital policy agendas are increasingly intertwined.
Learn more and register today: https://tinyurl.com/yf7xyadr
Solving P = NP would be a master key, but for what? #PvsNP #ComplexityTheory #CyberSecurity #AIResearch #Innovation #FutureOfTech #Mathematics #TheoreticalComputerScience #Optimization #DigitalInfrastructure
"Companies spanning areas including cloud, telecoms, defence, along with several regional business and startup associations, have put their names to the letter — which was sent to the Commission on Sunday — urging the bloc to switch its tech strategy onto a quasi-war footing by committing to support “sovereign digital infrastructure.”
The plan pushes for reducing reliance on foreign-owned Big Tech by actively fostering development of a so-called “Euro stack.” The European digital infrastructure pitch is not coming out of thin air — a Euro Stack paper written by, among others, the competition economist Cristina Caffarra was published in January fleshing out the strategy in some detail.
There has also been, over the last half year or so, a smattering of conference chatter turning over the potential for enterprising Europeans to seize a geopolitically fraught moment to press the case for the EU to adopt a digital industrial strategy that’s squarely focused on favoring local innovation."
Angesichts der geopolitischen Situation werden die Forderungen nach einem #EuroStack von digitalrelevanten Technologien lauter. Aber was hat es damit auf sich? Diese Woche im Newsletter. https://internetobservatorium.substack.com/p/aus-dem-internet-observatorium-129 #Digitalisierung #GlobalStack #DPI #DigitaleInfrastruktur #DigitalInfrastructure
@joacim @a_cubed
There are more ways than using the military to conquer a country.
#digitalinfrastructure #clubofoligarchs
@benny @eunews
The problem IS civil obedience + playing by the rules.
In most democracies we nowaday see the same playbook followed.
As Nazis said: Use their tools against them.
And if we try to wait to be the "obvious majority" it'll be to late.
"They" already have all those tools to keep every future resistance under control. #digitalinfrastructure #media #socialplatforms #IoT ...
It's like with #climatecrisis which no gov seem to care.
The time to act is NOW.
#USA #Germany #EU
movie: #anon
[NEW PAPER ALERT!] Our grantees
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new paper puts forward a vision for balancing the benefits and risks of #opensource #GenAI (funded by
@DigInfFund
). Drafted by NickBotton
& Mathias Vermeulen
- a short thread on #boundariesofopenness #digitalinfrastructure
Roads are not financed with ads or donations. Neither are water mains, waste treatment plants, power lines, train tracks, schools, and so much more.
The world is going to shit for many reasons, but one of them is that online tools must have ads to survive, and free software tools don't get nearly enough donations.
Maybe it's time to finance more of our digital infrastructure trough taxes?
And in even more bad #DigitalInfrastructure news, JISC are also shutting down their Journals Archive:
New #Disintermedia blog post, on the challenges of building digital network infrastructure as commons;
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/re-democratising-the-internet
"Building a network infrastructure as neutral to purpose as water, electricity, roads and sewage treatment should be a top priority for the city. It can’t do that if it’s wearing blinders supplied by Verizon, Time Warner and AT&T.
Re-base the questions on the founding protocols of the Net itself, and its city-like possibilities. Not on what we think the carriers can do for us, or what we can do that’s carrier-like."
#DocSearl, 2013
https://nycwireless.net/2013/05/05/in-preparation-for-april-23rds-start-up-city-conference/
"#AudreyTang has served as #Taiwan's 1st Digital Minister since 2016, known for revitalizing #Perl and #Haskell, and for building the online spreadsheet #EtherCalc along with Dan Bricklin.
In this episode:
Using technology including #AI to help surface our areas of agreement, &
Why maintaining credible neutrality from partisan politics and developing strong public and civic #digitalinfrastructure are key to advancing #democracy."
Hi folx! It's been a minute since I did one of my #ConnectionList #Introduction #TwitterMigration posts, where I hand-pick accounts that you might like to follow, using my reach to more richly connect the #Fediverse
Dr @josephguillaume is a #researcher at the @ANUFennerSchool where he specialises in #model-based #science and #decision support. Joseph was a key contributor to the @AlgFuturesLab series of workshops
@ANUResearch is a new arrival to #Mastodon - great to see #ANU have an official presence here! This account posts about #research and #TechnologyTransfer and #ResearchTranslation
Dr @michealaxelsen is a Senior Lecturer in #InformationSystems at UQ #UniQueensland
Prof Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra is a #professor of #sociology at #Princeton @princeton specialising in #STS
@erici is a #soil #science student in #Naarm / #Melbourne, who is interested in #Microbiology and #BioInformatics
Professor Anne Pasek @Aepasek is a Professor at #TrentUniversity where she specialises in #ClimateChange, #DigitalInfrastructure and #EnergyPolitics
Dr @katrinagrant is an #ArtHistorian and #DigitalHumanities #researcher at #ANU, interested in #maps, #GLAM, #landscapes, #gardens and #museums
@datasociety is the non-profit #research institute that studies the social implications of #data-centric technologies and #automation #STS
That's all for today!
"... recent large investments in digital infrastructure, such as the NZ$1.3 billion single-ticketing system for public transport, suggest it is happy to look for overseas solutions.
The recent upheavals at Twitter are a reminder that New Zealand needs to shift its digital strategy. Not to do so risks putting the country’s businesses and citizens in a dangerously dependent position for decades to come."
Excellent piece from @mikejones and @bestqualitycrab for @theconversationau covering the funding issue with #Trove at the National Library of Australia (who I don't think are on Mastodon).
Trove is an #API, which I've demo'd before at places like VALA, which makes the NLA's collections easily query-able.
Trove is #digitalinfrastructure for #digitalhumanities, #socialscience, #archives, #museums and other #GLAM activities.
And it's invisible. Which means it doesn't attract the funding or attention it deserves. Trove archives over 6 billion digital items. Items which speak to Australia's #CulturalHeritage.
If Trove were a supercomputer, it would be funded. If our digitalhumanities were as sexy as #STEM, Trove would be funded. But they're the same type of thing - digital #infrastructure that helps research. Trove is #ResearchInfrastructure. And we should fund it properly.
Thinking about this classic XKCD comic about dependencies.
I found this "Open Source Insights" project from Google (https://deps.dev/) but I'm wondering... has anyone systematically analyzed open source from git or w/e to see where there exist these "projects some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003?"
Do we know where these pivotal structural elements are?