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European digital sovereignty and open source

Talkat FOSDEM 2022 · on Sunday, 2022-02-06· at 12:00· M.misc· [open-source]

speaker

name:Vittorio Bertola

website:https://bertola.eu/

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2022/M.misc/misc_europe.mp4

slides:https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/misc_europe/attachments/slides/5237/export/events/attachments/misc_europe/slides/5237/European_digital_sovereignty_and_open_source_FOSDEM_2022.pdf

summary

Overview of EU regulatory efforts — Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, AI Regulation, Data Governance Act and GAIA‑X — aimed at curbing large US/Chinese platforms and increasing Europe’s control over internet services. Explains how those laws and projects promote open standards, interoperability and prevent platform self‑preferencing, and discusses implications for European free/libre open source projects and companies, with attention to social media, instant messaging and mobile apps.

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