The book Building a Free Internet of the Future tells the story of of people working for an inclusive & accessible digital future. A series of interviews with people working on open technology projects supported by NGI0, gives insight in the concrete challenges of digital exclusion and the projects they work on to overcome them. The book highlights practical, community-based initiatives & replicable models.
The book is made freely available by @APC.
https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/building-free-internet-future
#NGI #NGIZero #FOSS
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We'd like to invite you to our #BoF session at #FOSDEM It's on Saturday at 13.00 in room K4.401. This is a meet-and-greet for everyone who is part of, or interested in, the #NGIZero ecosystem. We'll bring drinks and snacks :).
Preceding us at 12.00 in the same room is the BoF about the Open Internet Stack calls from @EUCommission the follow-up programme to #NGI.
For these and many more NGI Zero related talks and events at FOSDEM see: https://nlnet.nl/events/20260131/FOSDEM26/index.html
Tomorrow is the monthly online NLnet open Office Hour. You can drop by in our Matrix room and ask questions.
You can already start adding your questions to the pad or do it during the session.
The url below also links to an overview of FAQs from previous sessions. Thanks to participants we have quite a collection of answered questions already.
Welcome to join tomorrow, Wednesday January 28, 16.00 CET.
https://nlnet.nl/events/20260128/Office-hour/index.html
#FOSS #funding #NGI #NGIzero
We are happy to share that 62 projects will receive grants from the NGI Zero Commons Fund. We congratulate the selected projects and look forward to their contributions to increasing society's digital autonomy.
Ranging from browser-based cellular networking to decentralised social media, and professional print, these projects are showing that a bright digital future is not only possible but already being built.
Come over and meet the projects!
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250624-announcement-grants-CommonsFund.html
I'm excited to announce that #Convo, my #XMPP messaging app for #KaiOS has received a grant from @nlnet, or, more specifically, @NGIZero! 🎉 🤸
https://nlnet.nl/project/Convo/
I can now turn what began as a quick project made in a providential three weeks of free time into an app that can...actually do basic things like add contacts 😅
More importantly, it'll make the open and standardised messaging protocol available to a mobile platform where few large players have dared to tread 👟
