The MOBIFREE project focuses on the current landscape of the mobile software ecosystem, which is dominated by a small number of technologies known for collecting substantial amounts of user data.
Local regions throughout Europe face shrinking economies, which threaten their ability to sustain small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
TALER will roll out a new electronic payment system for European citizens, merchants, and banks.
The goal of the NGI Zero Commons Fund is to help deliver, mature and scale *new internet commons* across the whole technology spectrum, from libre silicon to middleware, from P2P infrastructure to convenient end user applications. This holistic, full-stack approach is needed if we want to reclaim the public nature of the internet and yield the full benefits from technology as a society.
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) Forum 2023, the flagship event of the European Commission’s NGI initiative exploring cutting-edge internet technologies…
At NGI Forum 2023, the panel Ethics in (NGI) search addressed not only the problems of contemporary internet search, namely Google, but forthcoming Open Source alternatives.
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.
The ETSI Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference: Status, Implementation and Way Forward of AI Standardization, will take place face-to-face on 5-7 February 2024 in ETSI, in Sophia Antipolis, France….
In 2021, the European Commission published its proposal for the world’s first regulation of AI. The aim of the AI Act is to safeguard the safety and fundamental rights of users and to boost the AI market by boosting consumer trust in AI applications.
In an interesting and far-reaching discussion, panellists underscored the importance of addressing maintenance, security, and funding challenges in the open source software ecosystem, with a focus on standardisation, transparency, and community collaboration.