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Author: Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Jul 23 17:58:29 2024 +0200
website: ngi-open-letter: Add missing footnote.
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@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ In the name of these challenges, more than 500 projects
received NGI funding in
NGI contributes to a vast ecosystem, as most of its budget is allocated to
fund third parties by the means of open calls, to structure commons that cover
the whole Internet scope - from hardware to application, operating systems,
digital identities or data traffic supervision. This third-party funding is not
renewed in the current program, leaving many projects short on resources for
research and innovation in Europe.
-Moreover, NGI allows exchanges and collaborations across all the Euro zone
countries as well as "widening countries" [^1], currently both a success and an
ongoing progress, likewise the Erasmus programme before us. NGI also
contributes to opening and supporting longer relationships than strict project
funding does. It encourages implementing projects funded as pilots, backing
collaboration, identification and reuse of common elements across projects,
interoperability in identification sy [...]
+Moreover, NGI allows exchanges and collaborations across all the Euro zone
countries as well as "widening countries"¹, currently both a success and an
ongoing progress, likewise the Erasmus programme before us. NGI also
contributes to opening and supporting longer relationships than strict project
funding does. It encourages implementing projects funded as pilots, backing
collaboration, identification and reuse of common elements across projects,
interoperability in identification system [...]
While the USA, China or Russia deploy huge public and private resources to
develop software and infrastructure that massively capture private consumer
data, the EU can't afford this renunciation.
Free and open source software, as supported by NGI since 2020, is by design
the opposite of potential vectors for foreign interference. It lets us keep our
data local and favors a community-wide economy and know-how, while allowing an
international collaboration.
@@ -81,3 +81,5 @@ Free and open source software, as supported by NGI since
2020, is by design the
This is all the more essential in the current geopolitical context: the
challenge of technological sovereignty is central, and free software allows to
address it while acting for peace and sovereignty in the digital world as a
whole.
In this perspective, we urge you to claim for preserving the NGI programme as
part of the 2025 funding programme.
+
+¹ As defined by Horizon Europe, widening Member States are Bulgaria, Croatia,
Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lituania, Malta, Poland,
Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Widening associated countries (under
condition of an association agreement) include Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Feroe
Islands, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldavia, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia,
Serbia, Tunisia, Turkeye, and Ukraine. Widening overseas regions are
Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Martiniqu [...]
