A group of over 40 European organisations have recently released a statement calling for the EU to set up a European Public Digital Infrastructure Fund.
They call for this fund to support Digital Public Spaces, that are, among other things, based in FOSS, and ensure privacy by design. The statement gives three examples: #Mastodon, #PeerTube and #ActivityPub, stating that they would benefit from such a fund to further flourish.
Entire statement: https://shared-digital.eu/statement/
The @EU_Commission has been supporting the fediverse for a while via @EC_NGI. This picture gives an idea of all the projects that have gotten funding via NGI.
@fediversereport @EU_Commission @EC_NGI
Government support for public goods? This concept is (quite literally) foreign to us from the US...
@fediversereport This is the kind of information that I can bring to my own local Town Council meetings.
Action starts at home! Open, public, municipal digital infrastructure will get us moving in the right direction
@fediversereport Gee, who knows, we might even get some funding from that given that’s exactly what we’re building. I won’t hold my breath though given we haven’t received a single euro of European funding today date (and not for lack of trying).
@aral maybe give @PrototypeFund https://prototypefund.de/en/ a try? (edit: if you have someone based in germany contributing)
@yetzt Oh, wow, if this isn’t limited to German citizens/Germany, it sounds absolutely perfect for Kitten (https://codeberg.org/kitten/app).
I’ll definitely look into it. Appreciate the heads up :)
@yetzt @PrototypeFund They do seem great but, sadly (for us), only for German folks :)
@fediversereport Very much needed in the field of (public) education. I'm not sure there are any good examples of this kind of infrastrucure in schools.
