Closing the Backdoor: Digital Sovereignty for EU & Public Authorities with Open Source
summary
European policy makers now ask whether mainstream products contain backdoors and APELL offers a practical response: push for auditable, open source stacks, create OSPOs in governments, and build advocacy capacity — currently seven or eight people in Brussels focused full time — plus public programs like the European Open Source Awards (nominations open until Sunday the 2nd). Claims rest on surprising adoption figures — 60–80% of business software relies on open source — and on using transparency to restore agency, accountability and resilience.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:35EU digital policy evolution
- 6:10Motivations for sovereignty
- 8:47Proprietary software backdoors
- 10:35Open source for sovereignty
- 12:20Tech versus policy debates
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