Schleswig-Holstein is still using Windows, taking it step by step. MS Office to LibreOffice, Thunderbird w Open-Xchange for mail, calendar, contacts, Element/Matrix for chat, Nextcloud for collab.

• [ ] zoek actieagende digitale autonomie

This is the definition of autonomy / sovereignty that MinBZK uses (and me). Source Strategische Verkenning Digitale Autonomie en de Rijksoverheid. Vgl Actieagenda Digitale Autonomie

German initiative for digital autonomy / sovereignty, called Digital Independence Day, short DI Day (pronuncation d-day). Every 1st sunday of the month is a DI Day, where people are encouraged, and assisted, to switch to more privacy oriented and open services/applications away from existing silos.

iBestuur on a digital emergency package in case of crises.

• [ ] return wrt what it actually proposes

[[Bob Coret p]] documents his transition away from US bigtech, for his open genealogy data platform.

Comitis Capital GmbH (based in Frankfurt am Main) is buying Threema AG (based in CH). Threema has a pretty big footprint in security services, that's driving this more than its use as private messenger app for individual people.

this is a good point. Bigtech will not stand by as customers move out. So you will likely must have circumvention tooling, ... which is illegal.

Again, autonomy and sovereignty are not the same thing. Make that clear and the 'washing' is more difficult too.

non sequitur. You just had multiple paragraphs saying it was easy for Austria. Most organisations in Europe are small, making migration easier.

autonomy used as synonym for sovereignty. Not at all the same thing though.

Visie Digitale Autonomie en Soevereiniteit voor de Overheid aanvaard in Ministerraad van #2025/12/12 ingediend door Stas Eddie van Marum (MinBZK)

Het document zelf ontbreekt! Gevonden via TK site: Visie Digitale Autonomie en Soevereiniteit Overheid in Zotero

yup. key phrase, much of the AI bubble is the presumption of US monopoly. Watching other, sometimes less visible efforts is important wrt autonomy, sovereignty

n:: Odd sentence, 'sovereignty' doesn't mean fully disconnect either. Public sector needs sovereignty as sine-qua-non bc if someone else holds the off-switch that you don't control, you are the colony that Caffarra mentioned at top. Only autonomy is sovereignty washing itself

Johannes Link and Jakob Schnell made this overview of ethical considerations around generative AI.

yes, agency does increase, where people realise this works locally.

City of Amsterdam, 'aiming for digital autonomy', March 2025. Amsterdam Digitale Autonomie in Zotero

Binnen het innovatieconvenant van Rijk et al, 2024-2027, zijn er 8 Kennis Innovatie Agenda's KIA. Digitalisering is er 1, en DigitalHolland is er coord van. Dwz: Vu deze KIA is de SIDN call te bezien.

Links to data spaces on Wikipedia: note that that link talks about data spaces as tech only, not in the sense of the EU single market for data, which is a much more meaningful context when it comes to (design)values.

research into alternatives: testing / development

https://web.archive.org/web/20251212113143/https://www.sidnfonds.nl/themacall-de-transitie-naar-digitale-autonomie

SIDN new call on digital autonomy. Icw a knowledge institute. Max size 200k. Deadline #2026/02/23

Spanish cloud service provider a la Nextcloud and Proton. I hate it when website don't actually contain any info about legal entities running the show. Their LinkedIn profile says they're in Valencia, but the site doesn't mention where they are located.

EU based cloud providers association, member list. Came across them as part of the #jtc25 work. Their pres is part of the NEN national commission wrt cloud I'm in.

-[ ] check welke leden relevant zijn en of ze in DS projecten opduiken. #geonovumtb #jtc25 #60mins

https://web.archive.org/web/20250611081737/https://wittenbrink.net/rueckblick-auf-die-republica-25-johan-rockstroem-zur-decisive-decade/

[[Heinz Wittenbrink]] about this year's re:publica conf in Berlin. (E and I visited in 2014 didn't go back)<br /> Discusses if there's a proper connection between the digerati of old (see my Reboot at 20yrs post) and climate aware circles, wrt getting to action.

Only Office is created/owned by a Russian outfit. What does our Nextcloud use?