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#digitalsovereignty

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Up to half of employees at Denmark’s Ministry of Digital Affairs will be switched to (an unspecified version of) Linux in place of Windows, and move from Office 365 to the leading open source productivity suite LibreOffice.

Denmark’s minister of digitisation, Caroline Stage Olsen, confirmed the migration is in progress to Danish media outlet Politiken (paywalled), adding that if all goes well the whole ministry will switch to using open source software by the autumn.

The move is being made to action the Danish government’s ‘digitalisation strategy’ which is making ‘digital sovereignty’ a priority for all government departments. Denmark, like many countries, wants to have greater control over its own digital infrastructure, data, and cloud services.

Of course, making the switch is one thing, whether it sticks another — something Olsen herself notes."

omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/denmar

OMG! Ubuntu · Denmark's Government is Ditching Microsoft for Open Source Software - OMG! UbuntuAn arm of the Danish government is phasing out Microsoft products, including Office 365 and Windows. Up to half of employees at Denmark's Ministry of
#EU#Denmark#Linux
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EU OS

Project lead @rriemann will attend the United Nations Open Source Week in the UN headquarters (New York) next week to represent #EU_OS. Follow us on social media to receive updates from the event. The goal is to raise awareness about EU OS amongst government officials and the open source community.

Agenda: un.org/digital-emerging-techno

The 19 June event (Thursday) on digital public infrastructure will be streamed!

www.un.orgUN Open Source Week 2025 | Office for Digital and Emerging TechnologiesDate 16–20 June 2025 Venue United Nations Headquarters, New York Mode In-person Dress code Business
#DigitalSovereignty#OpenSourceWeek2025
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@BjornW@mastodon.social

Just donated to @peertube.

If you'd like PeerTube the ability to livestream and have the means, please donate to their fundraising campaign as well.

The campaign is running for another 33hrs, but I'm sure @Framasoft doesn't mind if you continue to support them with donations after this period :)

support.joinpeertube.org/en/

support.joinpeertube.orgSupport PeerTubeLet's popularize videos shared by the people, for the people!
#PeerTube#BigTech#OpenSource
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Jan Vlug

@jwildeboer Yes this! ⬆️

This is something very important. I really dislike it to hear in the context of #DigitalSovereignty mainly speaking about US vs EU, or other regions/countries.

#FOSS is the key to get digital sovereignty. A worldwide community of people and companies working together for public benefit and providing freedom and control to the users (whether an individual or a government, or an educational institution, or anything else).

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Debacle

@Em0nM4stodon @x0

Signal is a non-profit, probably trustworthy, and pretty secure.

But it runs and depends 100 % on AWS and Google. A significant part of the Signal donations go into Jeff Bs pockets, while the Signal president only receives meagre 800 kUSD/a.

For me, as #EU cititizen, Signal is not the way to more #digitalSovereignty.

I suggest to migrate to decentralized and federated alternatives, such as #Jabber/#XMPP. Before DJT calls Jeff and let's him shutdown Signal.

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Loki the Cat

German state to Microsoft: "It's not you, it's us... actually, it IS you." Schleswig-Holstein is switching 30,000 public servants to open-source software for "digital sovereignty." Sometimes the best way to take back control is to simply hit uninstall! 🗽

it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/13

it.slashdot.org'We're Done With Teams': German State Hits Uninstall on Microsoft - SlashdotAn anonymous reader shares a report: In less than three months' time, almost no civil servant, police officer or judge in Schleswig-Holstein will be using any of Microsoft's ubiquitous programs at work. Instead, the northern state will turn to open-source software to "take back control" over data st...
#Microsoft#OpenSource#DigitalSovereignty
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Soverin

Another global outage, another wake-up call. Cloudflare went down—because their third-party cloud provider failed. (Yes, that usually means Google or Microsoft) cloudflarestatus.com/incidents

When even your infra provider depends on Big Tech, the whole system is fragile.
At Soverin, we build on sovereign, audited infrastructure. No silent dependencies. No lock-in.
Choose control. Choose resilience.

#DigitalSovereignty#PrivacyFirst#Soverin
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Joan Pla

"Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux
Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services" zdnet.com/article/why-denmark- #EU #Digitalsovereignty #opensource

ZDNET · Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and LinuxBy Steven Vaughan-Nichols
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