{"id":4578,"date":"2024-08-12T08:22:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T06:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suma-ev.de\/?p=4578"},"modified":"2024-08-13T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:40:48","slug":"offener-brief-die-european-union-muss-weiterhin-die-freie-software-finanzieren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suma-ev.de\/en\/offener-brief-die-european-union-muss-weiterhin-die-freie-software-finanzieren\/","title":{"rendered":"Offener Brief: Die European Union soll weiterhin die freie Software finanzieren"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wir vom SUMA-EV unterst\u00fctzen diesen offenen Brief der\u00a0Petites Singularit\u00e9s<\/a>\u00a0association. Auch wir sehen es als gro\u00dfes Problem, dass die weitere finanzielle Unterst\u00fctzung freier Software durch NGI-Programme von der EU zurzeit offenbar nicht vorgesehen ist. Mit dem folgenden Brief soll darauf aufmerksam gemacht werden:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Union must keep funding free software<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI<\/a>) programmes, part of European Commission’s Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade funding mechanism (see for example NLnet’s calls<\/a>). This year, according to the Horizon Europe working draft detailing funding programmes for 2025, we notice that Next Generation Internet is not mentioned any more as part of Cluster 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NGI programmes have shown their strength and importance to support the European software infrastructure, as a generic funding instrument to fund digital commons and ensure their long-term sustainability. We find this transformation incomprehensible, moreover when NGI has proven efficient and ecomomical to support free software as a whole, from the smallest to the most established initiatives. This ecosystem diversity backs the strength of European technological innovation, and maintaining the NGI initiative to provide structural support to software projects at the heart of worldwide innovation is key to enforce the sovereignty of a European infrastructure.
Contrary to common perception, technical innovations often originate from European rather than North American programming communities, and are mostly initiated by small-scaled organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous Cluster 4 allocated 27 millions euros to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    „Human centric Internet aligned with values and principles commonly shared in Europe“ ;
    „A flourishing internet, based on common building blocks created within NGI, that enables better control of our digital life“ ;
    „A structured eco-system of talented contributors driving the creation of new internet commons and the evolution of existing internet commons“ .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the name of these challenges, more than 500 projects received NGI funding in the first 5 years, backed by 18 organisations managing these European funding consortia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NGI contributes to a vast ecosystem, as most of its budget is allocated to fund third parties by the means of open calls, to structure commons that cover the whole Internet scope – from hardware to application, operating systems, digital identities or data traffic supervision. This third-party funding is not renewed in the current program, leaving many projects short on resources for research and innovation in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, NGI allows exchanges and collaborations across all the Euro zone countries as well as „widening countries“\u00b9, currently both a success and and an ongoing progress, likewise the Erasmus programme before us. NGI also contributes to opening and supporting longer relationships than strict project funding does. It encourages to implement projects funded as pilots, backing collaboration, identification and reuse of common elements across projects, interoperability in identification systems and beyond, and setting up development models that mix diverse scales and types of European funding schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the USA, China or Russia deploy huge public and private resources to develop software and infrastructure that massively capture private consumer data, the EU can’t afford this renunciation.
Free and open source software, as supported by NGI since 2020, is by design the opposite of potential vectors for foreign interference. It lets us keep our data local and favors a community-wide economy and know-how, while allowing an international collaboration.
This is all the more essential in the current geopolitical context: the challenge of technological sovereignty is central, and free software allows to address it while acting for peace and sovereignty in the digital world as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u2019Union Europ\u00e9enne doit poursuivre le financement des logiciels libres<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Depuis 2020, les programmes Next Generation Internet (NGI), sous-branche du programme Horizon Europe de la Commission Europ\u00e9enne financent en cascade (via les appels de NLnet) le logiciel libre en Europe. Cette ann\u00e9e, \u00e0 la lecture du brouillon du Programme de Travail de Horizon Europe d\u00e9taillant les programmes de financement de la commission europ\u00e9enne pour 2025, nous nous apercevons que les programmes Next Generation Internet ne sont plus mentionn\u00e9s dans le Cluster 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Les programmes NGI ont d\u00e9montr\u00e9 leur force et leur importance dans le soutien \u00e0 l\u2019infrastructure logicielle europ\u00e9enne, formant un instrument g\u00e9n\u00e9rique de financement des communs num\u00e9riques qui doivent \u00eatre rendus accessibles dans la dur\u00e9e. Nous sommes dans l\u2019incompr\u00e9hension face \u00e0 cette transformation, d\u2019autant plus que le fonctionnement de NGI est efficace et \u00e9conomique puisqu\u2019il soutient l\u2019ensemble des projets de logiciel libre des plus petites initiatives aux mieux assises. La diversit\u00e9 de cet \u00e9cosyst\u00e8me fait la grande force de l\u2019innovation technologique europ\u00e9enne et le maintien de l\u2019initiative NGI pour former un soutien structurel \u00e0 ces projets logiciels, qui sont au c\u0153ur de l\u2019innovation mondiale, permet de garantir la souverainet\u00e9 d\u2019une infrastructure europ\u00e9enne. Contrairement \u00e0 la perception courante, les innovations techniques sont issues des communaut\u00e9s de programmeurs europ\u00e9ens plut\u00f4t que nord-am\u00e9ricains, et le plus souvent issues de structures de taille r\u00e9duite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le Cluster 4 allouait 27 millions d\u2019euros au service de :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \u00ab Human centric Internet aligned with values and principles commonly shared in Europe \u00bb ;
    \u00ab A flourishing internet, based on common building blocks created within NGI, that enables better control of our digital life \u00bb ;
    \u00ab A structured eco-system of talented contributors driving the creation of new internet commons and the evolution of existing internet common\u00ab .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Au nom de ces enjeux, ce sont plus de 500 projets qui ont re\u00e7u un financement NGI0 dans les 5 premi\u00e8res ann\u00e9es d\u2019exercice, ainsi que plus de 18 organisations collaborant \u00e0 faire vivre ces consortia europ\u00e9ens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NGI contribue \u00e0 un vaste \u00e9cosyst\u00e8me puisque la plupart du budget est d\u00e9volue au financement de tierces parties par le biais des appels ouverts (open calls). Ils structurent des communs qui recouvrent l\u2019ensemble de l\u2019Internet, du mat\u00e9riel aux applications d\u2019int\u00e9gration verticale en passant par la virtualisation, les protocoles, les syst\u00e8mes d\u2019exploitation, les identit\u00e9s \u00e9lectroniques ou la supervision du trafic de donn\u00e9es. Ce financement des tierces parties n\u2019est pas renouvel\u00e9 dans le programme actuel, ce qui laissera de nombreux projets sans ressources ad\u00e9quates pour la recherche et l\u2019innovation en Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Par ailleurs, NGI permet des \u00e9changes et des collaborations \u00e0 travers tous les pays de la zone euro et aussi avec ceux des widening countries\u00b9, ce qui est actuellement une r\u00e9ussite tout autant qu\u2019un progr\u00e8s en cours, comme le fut le programme Erasmus avant nous. NGI0 est aussi une initiative qui participe \u00e0 l\u2019ouverture et \u00e0 l\u2019entretien de relation sur un temps plus long que les financements de projets. NGI encourage \u00e9galement \u00e0 l\u2019impl\u00e9mentation des projets financ\u00e9s par le biais de pilotes, et soutient la collaboration au sein des initiatives, ainsi que l\u2019identification et la r\u00e9utilisation d\u2019\u00e9l\u00e9ments communs au travers des projets, l\u2019interop\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 notamment des syst\u00e8mes d\u2019identification, et la mise en place de mod\u00e8les de d\u00e9veloppement int\u00e9grant les autres sources de financements aux diff\u00e9rentes \u00e9chelles en Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alors que les \u00c9tats-Unis d\u2019Am\u00e9rique, la Chine ou la Russie d\u00e9ploient des moyens publics et priv\u00e9s colossaux pour d\u00e9velopper des logiciels et infrastructures captant massivement les donn\u00e9es des consommateurs, l\u2019Union Europ\u00e9enne ne peut pas se permettre ce renoncement. Les logiciels libres et open source tels que soutenus par les projets NGI depuis 2020 sont, par construction, \u00e0 l\u2019oppos\u00e9e des potentiels vecteurs d\u2019ing\u00e9rence \u00e9trang\u00e8re. Ils permettent de conserver localement les donn\u00e9es et de favoriser une \u00e9conomie et des savoirs-faire \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle communautaire, tout en permettant \u00e0 la fois une collaboration internationale. Ceci est d\u2019autant plus indispensable dans le contexte g\u00e9opolitique que nous connaissons actuellement. L\u2019enjeu de la souverainet\u00e9 technologique y est pr\u00e9pond\u00e9rant et le logiciel libre permet d\u2019y r\u00e9pondre sans renier la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d\u2019\u0153uvrer pour la paix et la citoyennet\u00e9 dans l\u2019ensemble du monde num\u00e9rique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans ces perspectives, nous vous demandons urgemment de r\u00e9clamer la pr\u00e9servation du programme NGI dans le programme de financement 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b9 Tels que d\u00e9finis par Horizon Europe, les \u00c9tats Membres \u00e9largis sont la Bulgarie, la Croatie, Chypre, la R\u00e9publique Tch\u00e8que, l\u2019Estonie, la Gr\u00e8ce, la Hongrie, la Lettonie, la Lituanie, Malte, la Pologne, le Portugal, la Roumanie, la Slovaquie et la Slov\u00e9nie. Les pays associ\u00e9s \u00e9largies (sous conditions d\u2019un accord d\u2019association) l\u2019Albanie, l\u2019Arm\u00e9nie, la Bosnie Herz\u00e9govine, les Iles F\u00e9ro\u00e9, la G\u00e9orgie, le Kosovo, la Moldavie, le Mont\u00e9n\u00e9gro, le Maroc, la Mac\u00e9doine du Nord, la Serbie, la Tunisie, la Turquie et l\u2019Ukraine. Les r\u00e9gions \u00e9largies d\u2019outre-mer sont : la Guadeloupe, la Guyane Fran\u00e7aise, la Martinique, La R\u00e9union, Mayotte, Saint-Martin, Les A\u00e7ores, Mad\u00e8re, les Iles Canaries.
In this perpective, we urge you to claim for preserving the NGI programme as part of the 2025 funding programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b9 As defined by Horizon Europe, widening Member States are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lituania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. Widening associated countries (under condition of an association agreement) include Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Feroe Islands, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldavia, Montenegro, Morocco, North Macedonia, Serbia, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine. Widening overseas regions are : Guadeloupe, French Guyana, Martinique, Reunion Island, Mayotte, Saint-Martin, The Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open letter initially published in French by the\u00a0Petites Singularit\u00e9s<\/a>\u00a0association, translation by OW2 – with French original version below.
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