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?
It’s 1 million signatures with at least 7 countries passing the threshold (that’s important because it won’t be considered successful otherwise, even with a million signatures).
Open source is a must have, so that it can be reviewed independently and so we as citizens can be sure nothing shady happens - at least without our knowledge… european is not enough for me. I do not wish to replace non-european arseholery with european arseholery.