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?
I follow this guy on mastodon (@bert_hubert/@eupolicy.social) who writes on this, I looked up his site because he publishes his articles there: https://berthub.eu/ . He seems very knowledgable and doesn’t just write on the basic stuff, which for me as a rookie is very useful and he is very good at explaining things. But aside from that, he seems very well-connected and has a large following. Whether you would go for it and need an audience or are exploring options, he might be of help. But personal opinion, I don’t think this needs a citizens initiative to be addressed, since there is already things happening. You might not agree with how much is happening, but an initiative is not gonna chance that anyway. edit: inserted a / before the @