Panel Discussion: Digital Commons: Technological Building Blocks for European Digital Sovereignty

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NGI Commons is a 36-month CSA that starts in January 2024 and produces a draft taxonomy of technical and non-technical building blocks aimed at the Open Internet Stack and EuroStack. Concrete examples include network infrastructure and identity frameworks, messaging via Matrix/Element used by NATO, and Neonas-hosted cloud projects joining Linux Foundation Europe to scale workspaces. The core claim is funding plus community governance and non-extractive contribution practices produce interoperable, maintainable public digital infrastructure at scale.

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1. 0:00Digital commons and EU sovereignty
2. 10:54Value for open source communities
3. 17:21Developer opportunities in public tech
4. 22:49Policy lessons for open tech
5. 31:03Breaking supplier dependency
6. 35:18Public-sector procurement challenges
7. 47:21Next steps and engagement

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