#EU#DigitalSovereignty#DigitalRights#DigitalCommons: "As Europe approaches political elections, the urgency of creating digital platforms immune to the manipulative strategies of populist and far-right movements is more apparent than ever. These platforms must be founded with a strong commitment to digital rights, cultivating a digital public sphere that champions values such as pluralism, privacy, and freedom of expression.
To achieve this, I propose the creation of a 10 billion euros EU Digital Sovereignty Fund, to unify and scale our efforts. This fund will blend grants and equity investments, fostering pan European collaboration among our national innovation agencies. This ambitious initiative will have the aim to establish robust digital public infrastructures and digital commons, offering viable alternatives to current monopolistic digital platform models, supporting the deployment of open AI models and decentralized applications, sovereign data spaces, open knowledge tools and content, privacy-preserving digital IDs, and digital payment systems."
