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EU country grouping cleared to build sovereign digital infrastructure

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  1. riQQ
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    The European Commission on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a group of four countries to establish a common organisation for building open source alternatives to much-used (non-European) software.

    France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands will work to develop open, European alternatives in “key areas” such as AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and – curiously – social networks.

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  2. Kapps
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    Interesting, in Canada there's an start-up social media platform called Gander whose angle also includes data sovereignty. In some ways it seems like the exploratory days of the internet led by US...

    Interesting, in Canada there's an start-up social media platform called Gander whose angle also includes data sovereignty. In some ways it seems like the exploratory days of the internet led by US companies is now shifting towards regional, everyone-controls-their-own-thing approach.