[TechSovereignty] NGI Forum 2025 recordings + bonus links

[Joan Pla Vivoles]

Dear all,

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: https://ngi.eu/ngi-forum25/

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 (https://video.ngi.eu/w/gCZNrLWokwFHQW97o5SYzB).

Additionally, here are three links I've gathered from popular media focusing on digital sovereignty:

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First, a BBC news article from yesterday: [BBC News] Should Europe wean itself off US tech? (2025-08-18) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dpr2zkny0o
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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) https://www.information.dk/debat/2025/07/digital-suveraenitet-absolut-noedvendigt-tre-skridt-paa-vejen-opnaa
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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’s foes should be worrying to us all (2025-05-24) https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-networker-microsoft-shutting-down-email-accounts-of-trumps-foes-should-be-worrying-to-us-all

I hope you find these links useful for your own work and thought.

Kind regards,

Joan Pla
Doctoral Research Fellow
Østfold University College





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