Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest
The Sovereign Tech Agency supports the development, improvement, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure.
Why
Digital sovereignty is central to shaping a future in the public interest. The open source ecosystem serves as the foundation for society's innovative strength, competitiveness, and democracy. Digital sovereignty is the self-determined use of digital technologies and systems by individuals, industry, and governments.
What
The Sovereign Tech Agency invests in open digital infrastructure. We understand this to be foundational technologies that enable the creation of other software. These trusted components — for instance, libraries and standards — are openly accessible and free to use. As a result, open digital infrastructure is critical for innovation and economic growth, and forms the foundation for digitalization across sectors. We often don’t notice how much our lives depend on digital infrastructure until it stops working. But making it available, accessible and secure is key for digitalization in the public interest.
How
It is time to invest in digital commons, volunteer communities, and the open source ecosystem to build the digital world we want to see. We are working to strengthen the self-determined use of digital technologies and systems by individuals, industry, and governments. The open source ecosystem, while incredibly successful, is also increasingly fragile. Many more people are using the software than contributing to it. We believe supporting openness, co-creation, interdependency and interoperability will lead to digital sovereignty.
Latest news
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Sovereign Tech Fellowship
Meet the Sovereign Tech Fellows
Jan, Sarah, Hugo, Matthias, Stefan, and Denis are the first cohort of the Sovereign Tech Fellowship. Let’s welcome the six maintainers in the Sovereign Tech Agency’s one-year pilot program to support critical digital infrastructure and the people who work on it.
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Newsletter
Newsletter: Open Source Week in Brussels, Job Openings, Event Videos
Email newsletter on 29 January 2025: Meet us at FOSDEM, EU Open Source Policy Summit, and other Brussels events, reminder about several open positions at the Sovereign Tech Agency, and highlights and videos from the Bug Bounties and FOSS report launch last autumn.
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Sovereign Tech Resilience
Videos, Highlights, and Insights from the 2024 Bug Bounties and FOSS Event
Last autumn, we hosted an event in Berlin to celebrate the publication of our research report, Bug Bounties and FOSS: Opportunities, Risks, and a Path Forward, commissioned as part of the Sovereign Tech Resilience program. We're excited to now share videos of the keynotes and panel, the German version of the report, and a new job opening for the program.
Feasibility Study
On the consideration of a support program for open digital enabling technologies as a basis for innovation and digital sovereignty
Pilot Phase Report
Insights from validating the approaches outlined in the Sovereign Tech Fund's feasibility study.