[TechSovereignty] NGI Forum 2025 recordings + bonus links

[DANIEL NANGHAKA]

Dear Joan,

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’m 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.

The additional media references you included are also quite timely. The BBC
piece and the Danish Data Ethics Council’s open letter underline the
urgency of digital sovereignty debates not only at the EU level but also in
shaping national strategies. John Naughton’s reflections, though earlier,
remain strikingly relevant in pointing to the risks of over-reliance on
private platforms.

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—that make sovereignty actionable.

Many thanks again for sharing these insights.

Kind regards,
Daniel K. Nanghaka
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 at 13:31, Yonah Welker <yonah at yonah.org> wrote:

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