mailchi.mp
"I was in Berlin last November to present at a satellite event around the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty. The two posts which resulted are below, followed by the latest from the growing ATProto4Science movement."
www.pfrazee.com
Bluesy's Paul Frazee on where cloud computing went: "the clouds are closed... they'll do everything well except interoperating with others. But there's nothing that says clouds have to be closed. Closed networks are a big company thing, not a cloud thing... We need to bridge our clouds... Atmospheric computing is a paradigm of connected clouds".O…
publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu
This JRC Policy brief "outlines the EU’s strategic imperative to assert digital sovereignty while remaining open to global collaboration".Defines EU digital sovereignty as "the EU’s capacity to exercise strategic independence in the digital domain—encompassing data governance, infrastructure control, and innovation... to reduce vulnerabilities in …
mathewlowry.medium.com
"Large organisations need dedicated tools and processes to manage their Bluesky presence and get the most out of ATproto".A repost onto Medium of version 4 of a wiki page I've been developing for most of the year.
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mathewlowry.medium.com
"What happens when you put politicians, media businesses and protocol engineers in the same room to discuss European sovereignty?" - my post following Eurosky.Live in Berlin, November 2025.
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bluesky custom feeds,
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atproto adoption,
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mailchi.mp
Newsletter as I head off to Berlin to talk about digital sovereignty, social media and ATprotocol.
mathewlowry.medium.com
What does sovereignty look like in the social media space? Some thoughts before heading to Berlin to help launch eurosky.social at a side event around the Franco-German Summit on European Digital Sovereignty.
www.linkedin.com
A great piece on "Europe's favourite, and most politically convenient, buzzword" - digital sovereignty. "Few political ideas in Brussels have enjoyed such broad appeal—or such conceptual emptiness". It's in effect a tour of what the concept means according to different camps, as each attempts to (re)define it according to their agenda, leading to …
www.techpolicy.press
"European sovereignty hangs in the balance. As long as 80 percent of European digital products and services originate in the United States, blackmail will thrive. Europe needs independent European infrastructure now—especially home-grown social networks that preserve a level playing field for information, safeguard media freedom and guarantee gen…