A European Citizen’s Initiative is a formal process for the European Commission to debate/discuss a proposition by citizens that has managed to collect 1 million signatures from European citizens within a year. I think the tides are turning and it might be good to ride the wave that the orange man on the other side of the world has started.

We could start an initiative to ask the EU governmental bodies to use software that is guaranteed to be European. Probably it would be better to ask them to use opensource only and no proprietary software. A citizen’s call for digital sovereignty could be understandable and even get business backing because there are even people on LinkedIn calling for the same.

What do you think?

  • Rikudou_SageA
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    3 days ago

    That’s really hard to do properly. First, most people will not care, this is unlikely to reach the minimum threshold.

    Second, the goal is unachievable. Like, what if a European software uses US made libraries? And if only the end result matters, what prevents someone from creating an EU entity, just slapping “Made in EU” on it, while just reusing a parent company’s software?