EC Floats Legislation to Cut Reliance on Non-European Tech Providers

EU weighs rules to cut reliance on China through broader supply chains

There is no self-made tech giant and Europe should remember that

Another week, another EU-level initiative to claw back some control of the technology that runs our lives. The European Commission this week unveiled the European Technological Sovereignty Package, a set of measures it says aims to strengthen the continent’s capacity in semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and open source software. The package has four main [… The post There is no self-made tech giant and Europe should remember th…

OSI welcomes the European Union’s “Tech Sovereignty” package

This week, the European Union (EU) published its “Tech Sovereignty” package, with a vision that puts Open Source at the heart of the EU’s digital sovereignty ambitions, while addressing many concerns and requests of Open Source communities. In February of this year, the OSI submitted feedback for the EU’s Open Digital Ecosystems Strategy. Our feedback set out a vision for how Open Source could serve the EU’s digital sovereignty goals in a way th…

EC Floats Legislation to Cut Reliance on Non-European Tech Providers

Europeans can't afford to depend on "others for the technologies that keep our hospitals running, our energy grids stable and our services secure," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said as she unveiled an EU technological sovereignty package Wednesday...