<div dir="ltr">Dear Joan,<br><br>Thank you very much for sharing these valuable resources. The recordings from the NGI Forum 2025 are indeed a strong complement to the discussions at GIG-ARTS 2025. I\u2019m particularly keen to revisit the perspectives of Alexandra Geese and Thibaut Kleiner, as they connect well with the questions of governance and accountability that often surface in various discussions of digital sovereignity.<br><br>The additional media references you included are also quite timely. The BBC piece and the Danish Data Ethics Council\u2019s open letter underline the urgency of digital sovereignty debates not only at the EU level but also in shaping national strategies. John Naughton\u2019s reflections, though earlier, remain strikingly relevant in pointing to the risks of over-reliance on private platforms.<br><br>Perhaps these contributions could serve as an entry point for us to explore how ideas of sovereignty are not just framed in policy and media but also practiced in our respective projects and communities. It might be valuable to reflect together on concrete approaches whether through standards, infrastructures, or governance models\u2014that make sovereignty actionable.<br><br>Many thanks again for sharing these insights.<br><br>Kind regards,<br>Daniel K. Nanghaka</div><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px"><img alt="" style="width:0px;max-height:0px;overflow:hidden" src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=aZG5kYW5uYW5nQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D&type=zerocontent&guid=e2e701cd-44b2-46ba-82b4-d88310d48e91"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">\u1427</font></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 at 13:31, Yonah Welker <<a href="mailto:yonah@yonah.org">yonah@yonah.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Sir/Madam,<div>Well received. I will also keep you posted with several publications on digital sovereignty and security in the public sector, which we are preparing.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 1:09\u202fPM Joan Pla Vivoles <<a href="mailto:joan.pla@hiof.no" target="_blank">joan.pla@hiof.no</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
<div dir="ltr">
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
Dear all,</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
I'd like to share the link to the recordings from the NGI Forum 2025, which took place in Brussels on June 19-20. I believe these sessions provide valuable follow-up insights to the speeches by Paul Timmers and Gemma Carolillo (and many others) at GIG-ARTS
2025. You can access the recordings here: <a id="m_4935870722904698371m_-6917234648466884573anchor-253c09a0-0908-f205-0586-82aecd38ec85" href="https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/" target="_blank">
https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/</a> </div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
NGI Forum 2025 featured Thibaut Kleiner, Director for Policy, Strategy, and Outreach at DG Connect. I recommend checking out the impactful speech by Alexandra Geese, a member of the EU Parliament (<a id="m_4935870722904698371m_-6917234648466884573anchor-dbf29e30-5966-f981-6f2b-3d07cda8930e" href="https://video.ngi.eu/w/gCZNrLWokwFHQW97o5SYzB" target="_blank">https://video.ngi.eu/w/gCZNrLWokwFHQW97o5SYzB</a>).</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
Additionally, here are three links I've gathered from popular media focusing on digital sovereignty:</div>
<ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" start="1">
<li style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);list-style-type:"1) "">
<div style="text-align:left;text-indent:0px;line-height:44px;margin:0px" role="presentation">
First, a BBC news article from yesterday: [BBC News] <span style="font-weight:500">
Should Europe wean itself off US tech? (2025-08-18) </span><a id="m_4935870722904698371m_-6917234648466884573OWA4bfc65b2-8130-c238-1ed5-619164255863" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dpr2zkny0o" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dpr2zkny0o</a></div>
</li><li style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);list-style-type:"2) "">
<div role="presentation">An open letter by the Data Ethics Council (Dataetisk Råd) in Denmark, an official independent advisory body to the Danish government's National Center for Ethics: [Information.dk, in Danish] "Digital sovereignty
is absolutely necessary. Here are three steps to achieving it" (2025-07-21) <a id="m_4935870722904698371m_-6917234648466884573OWA092134e7-fa0d-8548-3a88-1759cfeda357" href="https://www.information.dk/debat/2025/07/digital-suveraenitet-absolut-noedvendigt-tre-skridt-paa-vejen-opnaa" target="_blank">
https://www.information.dk/debat/2025/07/digital-suveraenitet-absolut-noedvendigt-tre-skridt-paa-vejen-opnaa</a></div>
</li><li style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);list-style-type:"3) "">
<div role="presentation">Finally, an older piece (last May, right before the GIG-ARTS 25 conference) but still relevant column by John Naughton (I highly recommend his weekly column The networker): [The Observer] Microsoft shutting down
email accounts of Trump\u2019s foes should be worrying to us all (2025-05-24) <a id="m_4935870722904698371m_-6917234648466884573anchor-040cc948-61d0-c118-957e-49d933f06f77" href="https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-networker-microsoft-shutting-down-email-accounts-of-trumps-foes-should-be-worrying-to-us-all" target="_blank">
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-networker-microsoft-shutting-down-email-accounts-of-trumps-foes-should-be-worrying-to-us-all</a> </div>
</li></ol>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
I hope you find these links useful for your own work and thought.</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
Kind regards,</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
Joan Pla</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
Doctoral Research Fellow</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
Østfold University College</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br>
</div>
<div id="m_4935870722904698371m_-6917234648466884573Signature">
<div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
-- <br>
mailinglist mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:mailinglist@techsovereignty.org" target="_blank">mailinglist@techsovereignty.org</a><br>
<a href="http://techsovereignty.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_techsovereignty.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://techsovereignty.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_techsovereignty.org</a><br>
</div></blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#222222" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Yours sincerely,</font><br></div><b><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><font color="#073763" face="verdana, sans-serif">Yonah Welker </font></b><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><div><font color="#073763" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">Visiting lecturer, Evaluator, Rapporteur</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Massachusetts Institute Of Technology</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><font color="#073763" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="1">EU Commission projects, </font><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Prev. Tech Envoy, Ministry of AI </span></div></div></div></div></div>
-- <br>
mailinglist mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:mailinglist@techsovereignty.org" target="_blank">mailinglist@techsovereignty.org</a><br>
<a href="http://techsovereignty.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_techsovereignty.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://techsovereignty.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_techsovereignty.org</a><br>
</blockquote></div>