#ngiforum2025 — Public Fediverse posts

🌐 Exciting times in Milan at the @NGICommons General Assembly!

We’re meeting in person to sync on project updates, debrief the #NGIForum2025 and plan ahead — including our upcoming NGI Policy Summit on 20 Nov 🗓️. Lots of great energy and collaborative spirit in the room!

Stay tuned as we keep building a people-first internet 💡💬

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💨 June went by in a haze & has been filled w/ exciting events! A highlight: #NGIForum2025 in Brussels

Our team presented a variety of talks & sessions, incl. a short portrayal of the #OWI + its relevance for #EuropeanWebSovereignty.

“Producing knowledge and making it accessible is the basis for free democratic societies. This is what we need to fight for!” stated Alexandra Geese in her policy perspective.

Read more:
https://lnkd.in/dD5h6ZtG

Big thank you to the @EC_NGI team 4 having us.

The EU #NextGenerationInternet Community met 2 weeks ago at the #NGIForum2025! 🌐

Experts & innovators gathered to strengthen Europe’s position as a leader in #DigitalInnovation, ensuring that new technologies align with EU values of openness, trust & security. 🚀

The #NGISargasso partners and #NGISargassoInnovators feel very proud to contribute to this collective effort to build a free and democratic society! 🛜 🌍

👉 Read this article to find out all the details: https://ngisargasso.eu/2025/07/02/the-ngi-sargasso-consortium-and-innovators-participate-in-the-ngi-forum-2025-to-join-discussions-on-digital-sovereignty/

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✅ #NGIForum2025 put #DigitalCommons and @NGICommons at the heart of the conversation!
Held in Brussels, the event showcased how open infrastructure, public code, and collective governance are shaping the future of the internet.

📖 Catch up: https://commons.ngi.eu/2025/06/30/digital-commons-take-centre-stage-at-ngi-forum-2025-opening-in-brussels/

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The discussions on sovereignty at #NGIForum2025 make me wonder: what year are we in? It’s as if we’re rebooting grassroots conversations we’ve had for decades - but without the mess, memory, or movement that gave them meaning in the first place. https://hamishcampbell.com/getting-through-this-era-of-collapse-with-anything-human-left-intact/

"Open source licensing permits continued operation of the software with an EU provider."

That’s technically true, but in practice, how many such transitions actually happen? How many of these tools become hollowed-out ghost projects after the buyout? We need the EU to fund #4opens #FOSS and commons-native projects directly, not startups chasing exit strategies.

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💳 Digital payments sovereignty at #NGIForum25!

Özgür Kesim @oec presenting "Digital Freedom meets Digital Payments" - how Europeans maintain financial autonomy in digital economy 🇪🇺

Follow LIVE the session on the NGI website: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

#NGIForum2025 #DigitalSovereignty #OpenInternet #DigitalCommons #EuropeanInnovation #OpenSource #NGIForum

🔐 Software supply chain security at #NGIForum25!

🎤 Philippe Ombredanne (AboutCode) on "Managing Your Software Supply Chain with NGI: Security, GenAI, and CRA compliance" 🇪🇺

Tackling pressing EU digital sovereignty challenge!

Follow LIVE the session on the NGI website: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

#NGIForum2025 #DigitalSovereignty #OpenInternet #DigitalCommons #EuropeanInnovation #OpenSource #NGIForum

@nee @MattiSG a post a little strong maybe, but someone has to say this https://hamishcampbell.com/getting-through-this-era-of-collapse-with-anything-human-left-intact/

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Getting through this era of collapse with anything humane intact

https://hamishcampbell.com/getting-through-this-era-of-collapse-with-anything-human-left-intact/

👥 Users FIRST at #NGIForum25!
"Co-creating NGI building blocks with end-user at the centre" - designing EU #DigitalSovereignty around actual user needs! 🎯

🎤 Andrés del Álamo Cienfuegos (@Cibervoluntarios) moderating user-centric experts:

Muttukrishnan Rajarajan (University of London)
Ruben Roex (Timelex)
Thanasis Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Follow LIVE the session on the NGI website: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

#NGIForum2025 #DigitalCommons #OpenSource

🌐 The comprehensive vision for European web sovereignty emerges at #NGIForum25!

🎤 Stefan Voigt from the Open Search Foundation and DLR is moderating the panel discussion on "Web Sovereignty – towards a sovereign web tech stack for Europe" with panelists:

🔹 Renaud Chaput @renchap (@Mastodon)
🔹Gaël Duval @gael (@murena)
🔹Ana Garcia Robles (BDVA)

Follow LIVE the session on the NGI website: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

#NGIForum2025 #DigitalSovereignty #OpenInternet #DigitalCommons #OpenSource

🔧 Theory → Practice at #NGIForum25!
"Applications of Open Web Index & Web Data Infrastructure" panel showing real-world use cases 🌍

🎤 Sara Garavelli (@CSC) moderating diverse ecosystem experts:

Emmanuel Cartier (@EU_JRC)
Per Öster (@CSC – IT Center for Science)
Jan Hajič (@OpenEuroLLM)
Wolfgang Oels (@Ecosia)

Follow LIVE the session on the NGI website: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

#NGIForum2025 #DigitalSovereignty #OpenInternet #DigitalCommons #EuropeanInnovation #OpenSource #NGIForum

🏛️ Policy perspective at #NGIForum25!
Alexandra Geese @alexandrageese (@europarl_en) delivering policy statement on "Why Europe needs Open Web Index & Web Data Infrastructure for Search, Analytics & AI" 🇪🇺

Follow LIVE the session on the NGI website: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

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🌅 Day 2 of #NGIForum25 starts in just a couple of minutes with a focus on "Sovereignty in Web Search" - often overlooked piece of digital independence puzzle 🧩

🎤 Sara Garavelli (@CSC) MC'ing
🗣️ Stefan Voigt (@Open Search Foundation) setting the stage

Follow LIVE the session on the NGI website: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

#NGIForum2025 #DigitalSovereignty #OpenInternet #DigitalCommons #EuropeanInnovation #OpenSource #NGIForum

🎯 POWERFUL Day 1 wrapped! Thibaut Kleiner (@EU_Commission) delivers closing remarks after an incredible day.
Day 1 highlights:
✅ Digital sovereignty = openness, not isolation
✅ NGI impact stories = real transformation happening NOW
✅ European infrastructure = sovereign capacity being built today
✅ Future innovation = post-quantum security → virtual worlds, EU leading!
Tomorrow: Explore Open Web Search & Web Data Infrastructure 🔍
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🌐 The FUTURE is arriving NOW! "Building open & interoperable Web 4.0 enabling Virtual Worlds" 🚀

🎤 Dr. Monique Calisti @moniquecalisti @martelinnovate moderating with:
🔹 Stephanie Stimac (@igalia)
🔹 Niko Bonnieure (@nextgraph)
🔹 Alina Kadlusky (OpenARCloud)
🔹 Fabien Benetou @utopiah

Follow LIVE the session on the NGI website: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

#NGIForum2025 #DigitalSovereignty #OpenInternet #DigitalCommons #EuropeanInnovation #OpenSource

@ngisearch & @openwebsearcheu with #NGISargasso at the #NGIForum2025! ✨

Collaboration with the #NextGenerationInternet community is key to find potential synergies to shape the Internet of tomorrow aligned. 🚀

Thank you, @EC_NGI , for brining the European ecosystem of Internet innovators together in Brussels! 🌐 💡

Discover more about NGI Sargasso in our website https://ngisargasso.eu/ 🌊

#NGI #NGIForum25 #DigitalSovereignty #OpenInternet #OpenSource

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In just a few minutes at #NGIForum25! 🏗️ Building Europe's digital backbone! "Open Infrastructure, Sovereign Future" panel diving into the technical foundations!

🎤 Sebastian Raible @sraible @apell moderating the session:
🔹 Nina Müller (@nextcloud)
🔹 Nicola Rustignoli (@SCION)
🔹 Quentin Adam (@clevercloud)

Follow LIVE the session on the NGI website: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

#NGIForum2025 #DigitalSovereignty #OpenInternet #DigitalCommons #OpenSource

"Forging European Digital Sovereignty through an Open Internet Stack" panel is happening NOW at #NGIForum25!

🎤 Jennifer Baker moderating the panel bringing together:

🔹Stuart Mackintosh (Open Digital Consulting)
🔹 Stephanie Schaer (Dinum)
🔹 Felix Reda @senficon (@@github)
🔹 Michiel Leenaars @michiel (@nlnet)

Follow LIVE the session on the NGI website: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

#NGIForum2025 #DigitalSovereignty #OpenInternet #DigitalCommons #EuropeanInnovation #OpenSource

#NGIFORUM2025 is timidly touching sense hamishcampbell.com/ngiforum2025... We are at risk of simply recreating their culture in softer tones. Let’s not do that. Let’s take a breath and reflect on what we’re actually building, it’s not a rhetorical question. This is not abstract. #ngiforum #Nlnet

NGIFORUM2025 is timidly touchi...

#NGIFORUM2025 is timidly touching sense https://hamishcampbell.com/ngiforum2025-is-starting-to-timidly-touch-sense/ We are at risk of simply recreating their culture in softer tones. Let’s not do that. Let’s take a breath and reflect on what we’re actually building, it’s not a rhetorical question. This is not abstract.

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"There are many people who want to build on digitally autonomous infrastructure, but there is nowhere for them to go to."

"We need to enable the people to govern the internet, by giving them agency - we need to teach them to *open source*"

So. Much. Yes. #ngiforum2025 #ngiforum25 #ngiforum

NGIFORUM2025 is starting to timidly touch sense

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It’s good to see events like #NGIFORUM2025. The #Fediverse and the wider #openweb reboot are real forces for social good, messy, hopeful, and grounded in decades of grassroots digital culture, we do need to support them. BUT we also need to speak honestly, as these spaces are not healthy by default.

Too often, they are co-opted by #NGO and institutional actors who bring with them a dangerous kind of “common sense”, what I’ve long described as the parasite class. We see this […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/ngiforum2025-is-starting-to-timidly-touch-sense/