[TechSovereignty] NGI Forum 2025 recordings + bonus links

[Yonah Welker]

Dear Sir/Madam,
Well received. I will also keep you posted with several publications on
digital sovereignty and security in the public sector, which we are
preparing.

On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM Joan Pla Vivoles <joan.pla at hiof.no> wrote:

> 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:
>
>    1. 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
>    2. 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
>    3. 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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-- 
Yours sincerely,

*Yonah Welker *
Visiting lecturer, Evaluator, Rapporteur
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
EU Commission projects, Prev. Tech Envoy, Ministry of AI
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